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Dozens of members of the College of Sciences community were honored during Institute-wide celebrations held in March and April 2025.
Students from all majors are invited to register for the new Minor in Astrobiology at Georgia Tech.
Every time you use your phone, open your computer or listen to your favorite music on AirPods, you are relying on critical minerals.
The College of Sciences recognized outstanding faculty and staff for the 2024-25 academic year as well as recent retirees.
Tens of thousands of people in the Southeast were jolted by a magnitude 4.1 earthquake on Saturday, May 10. Seismologist and professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Zhigang Peng joined FOX Weather to talk about why so many people in the East reported feeling the earthquake and just how common they are in the region.
A similar story also appeared at 11 Alive News.
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May 11, 2025According to new research published in the journal Nature, lava flows possibly originating from the Jezero Mons on Mars could have shaped the geology of the Jezero crater’s floor. According to the findings, the analysis of NASA's Perseverance rover samples could also reveal clues about ancient Mars when it was still geologically active.
The study was led by Sara C. Cuevas-Quiñones, a Ph.D. Planetary Science student from Georgia Tech’s School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS) and Brown University. The research team also included EAS Professor James Wray and EAS Assistant Professor Frances Rivera-Hernández.
As Cuevas-Quiñones and her colleagues note in their paper, the detection of clay and carbonate minerals on Jezero crater's floor supports the conclusion that the sedimentary deposits on the crater's western edge are the result of aqueous activity that took place roughly 3.8 to 3.5 billion years ago. In addition, satellite observations have revealed a set of non-sedimentary geologic materials that cover most of the Jezero crater's floor.
Universe Today
May 9, 2025
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