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Research Spotlight
Assistant Professor Clara Blättler holding a vial of seawater dating from the last ice age.
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Bowen studies the climate of early Mars and rocky exoplanets.
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Edwin Kite is a planetary scientist interested in Mars and rocky exoplanets.
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Prof. Edwin Kite on Cool Worlds Podcast
April 29, 2025
Prod. Edwin Kite talks about his research on Mars on the Cool Worlds Podcast's host Prof. David Kipping.
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Bowen Fan and Edwin Kite contribute to new paper in PNAS
April 24, 2025
"Extreme weather variability on hot rocky exoplanet 55 Cancri e explained by magma temperature–cloud feedback" explores novel cloud and convections on the lava exoplanet 55 Cancri e.
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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Finds Evidence For Long-Ago CO2 Atmosphere On Mars
April 22, 2025
Prof. Edwin Kite was third author on a paper that revealed there was, in fact, a Martian atmosphere which contained enough carbon dioxide to be warm enough to support liquid water.
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Jui-Chun Freya Chen Wins Grand Prize in “Science As Art” Competition
April 03, 2025
Chen, a graduate student in the department, won for her photograph titled "Anemometer in the High Arctic". See the image and read more about its creation at the link above.