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Sealing the Deal

This week, the Perseverance team faced a stubborn engineering challenge. After successfully collecting a core called 鈥鈥 from the 鈥淭ablelands鈥 location, the rover struggled to seal the鈥

NASA鈥檚 Perseverance Fords an Ancient River to Reach Science Target

鈥淭he diversity of textures and compositions at Mount Washburn was an exciting discovery for the team, as these rocks represent a grab bag of geologic gifts brought down from the crater rim and potentially beyond,鈥 said Brad Garczynski of Western Washington University in Bellingham鈥

Geology鈥檚 Asmaa Boujibar gets new $300,000 NASA grant to research the building blocks of planet Mercury
Projects build research capacity and pipeline for regional institutions

A collaboration between Los Alamos scientist Jianxin Zhu and Armin Rahmani, associate professor at Western Washington University, will explore the emergent properties and interaction of Majorana fermions using high-performance computing and noisy intermediate-scale quantum鈥

NASA MESSENGER mission data to measure chromium on Mercury

Co-author Asmaa Boujibar, of Western Washington University, who performed the modeling described in the paper, added: 鈥淥ur model, based on laboratory experiments, confirms that the majority of chromium in Mercury is concentrated within its core. Due to the unique composition and鈥

Ask the dinosaurs: We aren鈥檛 ready for an asteroid 鈥楤ig One鈥

It is essential that we support efforts by NASA and others to detect NEOs, characterize them and prepare for a rapid response if we need to deflect one. We in the Pacific Northwest are no more susceptible to an asteroid impact than anyone else 鈥 but we may be better suited to understand the鈥

CCNY-based team scripts breakthrough quantum algorithm

ity College of New York physicist  and his research team are claiming significant progress in using quantum computers to study and predict how the state of a large number of interacting quantum particles鈥

草榴社区 Astronomy & Planetary Science professors share the聽science behind the new images from the James Webb Space Telescope
Janelle Leger appointed to fixed term as dean of 草榴社区 College of Science and Engineering
草榴社区's Spanel Planetarium to host 'To the Moon' on March 11
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