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NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover mission serves as ultimate test for working from home (planet)

Perseverance is the third Mars rover for , a planetary scientist at Western Washington University. And the fact that she’s based in Bellingham, Wash., more than 1,200 miles from Pasadena, means she’s had plenty of…

NASA’s big move to search for life on Mars – and to bring rocks home

This summer, NASA is taking the next giant leap in the search for signs of life beyond Earth.

On July 30, if the weather in Florida holds,  its most sophisticated and ambitious spacecraft to Mars: the aptly named…

Nasa Mars rover: How Perseverance will hunt for signs of past life

 by Dr Briony Horgan of Purdue University, Dr Melissa Rice of Western Washington University (both scientists on the mission) and colleagues, revealed carbonate deposits…

Vikings on Mars
40th anniversary of Mount St. Helens eruption to take place virtually amid COVID-19

Jackie Caplan-Auerbach is a geophysics professor at Western Washington University. Dr. Josef Dufek is a professor at the University of Oregon, teaching volcanology in the Department of Earth Sciences. Dr. Steve Malone is a research professor emeritus in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences…

Visiting Perseverance During Its Final Week at JPL

In January 2020, my , composed of undergraduate and graduate physics and geology students from Western Washington University, experienced the opportunity of a lifetime. We traveled to Pasadena, California to meet other scientists…

Pair of Western Graduate Students Awarded Northwest Climate Center Research Fellowships
²ÝÁñÉçÇø Gets New $190k NASA Grant for Future Science Teachers and Aerospace Professionals
Curiosity rover overcomes temporary freeze after ‘attitude adjustment’

"In the images from orbit, it looks like someone drew a thick straight line with a dark felt marker on the southeastern side of the butte," wrote Melissa Rice, planetary geologist at Western Washington University in a mission blog post. "From the ground, it looks like a shallow ditch filled with…

Jackie Caplan-Auerbach to Speak at ²ÝÁñÉçÇø on Feb. 12 about the 2018 Eruption of Hawai'i's Kilauea Volcano
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