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Researchers uncover the cause behind volcanic eruptions that produced Canada’s Sudbury crater
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Ancient Impact May Have Triggered Long-Term Volcanic Eruptions

by Sarah Stanley 25 May 201728 January 2022

Scientists revisit Canada’s Sudbury crater in light of new evidence from other planets that suggests an alternative postimpact history.

Mineral veins on Mars offer clues to the history of the planet’s crust
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Studying Martian Rocks Without Leaving Planet Earth

by A. Branscombe 1 March 20173 January 2023

Matching Martian rock formations to those found on Earth can help researchers learn more about the Red Planet.

Asteroid strikes Earth 65 million years ago
Posted inNews

Cores from Crater Tied to Dinosaur Demise Validate Impact Theory

by JoAnna Wendel 17 November 201628 January 2022

Drilling into the famous, deeply buried Chicxulub crater off Mexico, researchers found deformed and porous granite that opens new avenues of research.

Improving the equation of state for silica can provide insight into the big impacts that shaped the solar system.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

New Insight into Silica Explains Planetary Smashup

by S. Hall 8 November 201628 January 2022

A better equation of state for silica will help planetary scientists accurately constrain the giant impacts that have shaped our solar system.

Aerial view of Orakei basin, near Auckland, New Zealand, where a research team took core samples near the center of a maar, an ancient volcanic explosion crater.
Posted inScience Updates

Probing the History of New Zealand's Orakei Maar

by P. C. Augustinus 20 September 201623 September 2022

A team of scientists drilled into the bed within a northern New Zealand explosion crater lake to gain insights into volcanic hazards and past climates.

Thermal image showing elevated ice-rich lobes likely deposited by the second of two tsunamis suspected to have inundated Martian shorelines billions of years ago.
Posted inNews

Tsunamis Splashed Ancient Mars

by S. Hall 19 May 201628 January 2022

Massive meteorites likely slammed into a Martian ocean billions of years ago, unleashing tsunami waves up to 120 meters tall, a close study of a region of the Red Planet's terrain has found.

This relatively recent impact crater photographed last year spans a little more than a kilometer in the Sirenum Fossae region of Mars.
Posted inNews

Impacts Might Have Made Ancient Mars Briefly Hospitable to Life

by S. Hall 28 April 201628 January 2022

A bombardment of the Red Planet 4 billion years ago could have created hot springs that allowed life to flourish.

Posted inResearch Spotlights

Objects That Slam into Ceres Remain on Its Surface

by Terri Cook 19 February 201628 January 2022

Hypervelocity impact experiments shed new light on the composition and evolution of the largest dwarf planet's little-known surface.

Posted inResearch Spotlights

Can Meteorite Impacts Disturb a Planet's Magnetic Field?

by Kate Wheeling 8 February 201628 January 2022

Such disturbances probably do not occur on our own planet, but evidence for them might still exist elsewhere in the solar system.

Posted inResearch Spotlights

Subsurface Craters Expose the Moon's Dramatic Past

by L. Strelich 22 October 201528 October 2021

Scientists use the gravity signature of the lunar surface to trace the history of impact cratering and its role in the Moon's evolution.

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