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Purdue-led team earns NASA grant to uncover the Moon's magnetic past
For billions of years, the Moon has orbited Earth, holding clues to the story of our solar system. One part of the puzzle remains unsolved: the timing of the Moon's magnetic field. A new $1.1 million NASA award, led by Purdue University researchers, aims to uncover that answer.
Purdue PhD student earns NASA FINESST fellowship to unravel the mysteries of extreme heatwaves
Yanjun Hu, a PhD student in Purdue University's Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, has been awarded a NASA Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) fellowship to study the factors that drive heatwaves across the United States.
Planetary scientist decodes clues in Bennu’s surface composition to make sense of far-flung asteroids
Space weathering expert Michelle Thompson of the College of Science and OSIRIS-REx, NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, reveals why some gray asteroids reflect light at different wavelengths, like red or blue, more strongly. These results help shed light onto the evolution of rocky bodies in the solar system.
Some asteroids are more ‘colorful’ than others. Here’s why.
Popular Science — New research on the Bennu asteroid explains why some look red, blue, or grey. EAPS's Michelle Thompson was quoted in the article along with her research.
NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Spots Bizarre Helmet-Shaped Rock and Mysterious Megaripples
Scitechdaily — On Mars, the story of the past is preserved in solid rock, but the planet’s present is being shaped in shifting sand. Just last week, NASA’s Perseverance rover studied a set of inactive megaripples to better understand how winds continue to sculpt the Martian surface today. This article was written by Athanasios Klidaras in EAPS.
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