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Geospatial Research Initiative Announces Seed Grant Funding
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Asteroid Bennu samples have arrived on campus for analysis
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Geospatial Research Initiative Launches
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2023 McDonnell lectures to offer a crash course in the creation of the Earth and Moon
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Science research roundup: November and December 2022
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At the confluence of climate change and environmental justice
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Science research roundup: September 2022
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Studying how climate change shapes floods and river landscapes
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Cosmochemist Wang to study samples from asteroid Bennu
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Exploring Mars, 50 years and counting
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Boundless
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Earth’s Lower Mantle Is Drier Than Previously Thought
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Torrential rainfall will change our rivers. A Washington U scientist is studying how.
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NASA waited 50 years to unseal these precious moon rocks
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NASA studies ‘new’ 50-year-old lunar sample to prep for return to Moon
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WashU scientists help recover gases from Moon rock time capsule
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Seismic study reveals key reason why Patagonia is rising as glaciers melt
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Quirks and Quarks: Is the moon driving the movement of the Earth's tectonic plates?
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SYFY: The Sun and Moon could be unleashing earthquakes and volcanoes
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Conference roundup: AGU 2021
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Tug of sun, moon could be driving plate motions on ‘imbalanced’ Earth
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Volatile bodies: Isotopic fingerprints reveal how planets gain and lose elements
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A river runs through it
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Space.com: Strange 'eggshell' exoplanets may have ultra-smooth surfaces
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Tread lightly: ‘Eggshell planets’ possible around other stars
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Space.com: Moon rocks brought to Earth by Chinese mission fill key gaps in solar system history
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Chang’e-5 samples reveal key age of moon rocks
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St. Louis Public Radio: Wash U scientists to continue Mars research with $11.8 million NASA contract renewal
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NPR: Mars had liquid water on its surface. Here's why scientists think it vanished.
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Forbes: Martian blues: Did planet's size affect its ability to hold onto water?
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Time: Mars was always destined to die
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Muddied waters: Sinking organics alter seafloor records
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Sculpted by starlight: A meteorite witness to the solar system’s birth
Analysis of pristine samples of the Moon
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Highlands hunt for climate answers
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When using pyrite to understand Earth’s ocean and atmosphere: Think local, not global
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Conference roundup: AGU 2020
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Exploring the most explosive volcano in the world
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Science finds a way: Research adaptations during the pandemic
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Powerful electrical events quickly alter surface chemistry on Mars and other planetary bodies
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Clocking volcanic activity
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Electrically charged dust storms drive Martian chlorine cycle
WashU planetary scientists chosen to work on pristine Apollo samples
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New Horizons may have solved planet formation cold case
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Arrokoth close-up reveals how planetary building blocks were constructed
Conference roundup: AGU 2019
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Why is the red planet red?
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Mars rover retrospective
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Proposed Interstellar Mission Reaches for the Stars, One Generation at a Time
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Investigating water ice, space weathering on the Moon
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Tektites don’t come from the Moon, but they might help scientists understand how it formed
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New finds for Mars rover, seven years after landing
Old rocks, new science: Why Apollo 11 samples are still as relevant as ever
WashU Expert: On Apollo legacy, and why we should return to the moon
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Untouched Apollo samples to be analyzed for the first time by WashU researchers
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We need a bigger bucket: Experimental geochemists push limits of water estimates in magma
Field Notes: Patagonia 2019
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Virtual reality comes to the classroom
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Ultima Thule: A closer look at the most distant object ever explored
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How Ultima Thule Is Like a Sticky, Pull-Apart Pastry
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New Horizons: Ultima Thule 'a time machine' to early Solar System
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NASA’s Mars Rover Opportunity Concludes a 15-Year Mission
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Good-Bye to Mars Rover Opportunity
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WashU Expert: Mission complete
Understanding tropical rainfall, both past and present
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Thirsty mantle: Subduction zones swallow more water than thought
The moon got rocked by a meteorite during this weekend's lunar eclipse
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Opportunity, Curiosity and Mars 2020 Rover Updates
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Fossett Laboratory for Virtual Planetary Exploration launches new augmented reality app
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Professor Jeff Catalano New Chief Executive Editor of Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
Next Stop Mars - Debate About the New NASA Mars Rover
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Seismic study reveals huge amount of water dragged into Earth’s interior
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Professor Arvidson: Mars Opportunity Rover in the Dust Storm
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Professor Jeff Catalano: Heavy Metals in the Wetlands
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Professor Bob Criss On Our Rivers
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Mantle xenon has a story to tell
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Professor Ray Arvidson: Organic Compounds on Mars
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In the News: Arvidson about Mars Rover Mission
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In the News: Criss about the Mississippi River
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Arvidson to receive Weidenbaum Center Award for Excellence
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Small Distant World with Ring
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Special Delivery for Noble Gas Research
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Climate Panel Member
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The Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Opportunity Logs 5000th Day, Snaps Selfie, and Roves On
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See our Virtual Geology Lab
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MoonRise mission to the Moon
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Professor McKinnon on YouTube with Pluto
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