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 ...
Seasonal snowpacks are a critical component of the global water cycle, governing river discharge, groundwater recharge, and freshwater availability for billions of people worldwide. Yet current satellite-based methods for estimating snow water equivalent (SWE) suffer from fundamental limitations, including coarse spatial resolution, limited coverage, and reliance on uncertain a priori ...
Over the course of the Pleistocene, the Bering Sea has alternated many times between a marine gateway connecting the Arctic and Pacific Oceans and a land bridge connecting North America to Asia. However, very few sediment cores for paleoceanographic or paleoenvironmental reconstructions of this region have been collected. Some have ...
Because there’s been a lot of talk about 3I/Atlas, we are excited to hear from Southwest Research Institute’s Dr. Tracy Becker for an extended talk: “What we Know About the 3rd Ever Interstellar Object 3I/Atlas” AND to host a discussion panel with our resident AoTSATX scientists on these unique visitors ...
