Experiments with the high pressure wind tunnel at Arizona State University’s Planetary Aeolian Laboratory provide key data for understanding dunes on Saturn’s moon Titan. Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is one of the few solar system bodies — and the only planetary moon — known to have fields of wind-blown dunes on its surface. (The others […]
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ASU donor and Center for Meteorite Studies featured in Science Magazine article on the Black Beauty Martian meteorite!
A recent article published in Science features the Martian meteorite NWA 7034 (aka Black Beauty), and details its discovery and distribution among collections. This meteorite is a polymict breccia containing a diverse assemblage of igneous and “sedimentary” materials. It was most likely produced by impact, but also involved volcanic and low-temperature alteration processes. The bulk […]
World’s most abundant mineral finally named, thanks to meteorite research!
While researchers have long known that our planet’s most abundant solid phase is magnesium iron silicate (Mg,Fe)SiO3, since this material occurs deep below Earth’s surface, in the lower mantle, it has remained officially nameless until now (in order to receive a formal, recognized name, a mineral sample must be available for characterization). In a new […]
Arizona State University joins Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope project
In becoming a partner in the Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope, scientists from ASU’s School of Earth and Space Exploration will be using it to explore the beginning of the universe. Arizona State University has joined with 14 other institutions in Australia, India, New Zealand, and the United States in a radio telescope project that […]
2014 Eugene Shoemaker Memorial Lecture – Nov 20
Rocks from Space: Tales of Life and Death in the Solar System The 2014 Eugene Shoemaker Memorial Lecture will be presented by Center for Meteorite Studies Director Meenakshi Wadhwa, Thursday, November 20th. Details and reservations are available here! […]
