Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Exploring Active Planetary Defense & the DART Mission

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One strong motivation for learning more about asteroids is to understand their potential for colliding with the earth. In this week's po...
Monday, March 14, 2022

Water Discovered on Mars! (Again.)

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It's a bit of a running joke amongst planetary scientists that any research discussing water (in any form) on Mars will get reported in ...
Wednesday, March 9, 2022

So Long and Thanks for All the Clouds

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    As the saying goes, everything that has a beginning has an end. Many students in my lab have had the opportunity to work on the Curiosit...
Thursday, March 3, 2022

I, Robot – InSight’s Struggle to Keep the Lights On

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Our spacecraft are more than just our robotic avatars on other planets. They carry our culture with them, sometimes literally as with the Vo...
Monday, February 28, 2022

Penitentes: What’s Hidden In The Ice?

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This week, one of our first year MSc students, Madeline Walters, considers the recent discovery that penitentes (pictured above) extend the ...
Monday, December 13, 2021

James Webb Space Telescope on Track to Launch Dec. 22

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When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was conceived, the first exoplanet had only just been discovered. Now we have thousands of exampl...
Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Applied CS & Space Science Research: An Undergraduate Perspective

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  One of my favourite parts of working in a research group is the opportunity to bring together a diverse set of students. Such a group has ...