The asteroid (16) Psyche may be the metal-rich remnant of a differentiated planetesimal, or it may be a highly reduced, metal-rich asteroidal material that never differentiated. The NASA Psyche mission aims to determine Psyche’s provenance. How did we choose the science instruments we’d need, when there was not even a ...
Glaciology is driven by two fundamental goals: to understand how ice sheets will evolve in a warming climate and contribute to future sea-level rise, and to understand how ice sheets behaved in the past, providing insight into Earth’s possible climate states. Both goals require observing how ice flows and deforms??"ideally ...