The Planetary Geology Department studies the solid surfaces of planets, moons, and small bodies in the solar system. Geological mapping as well as morphological and spectral analyses provide a record ...

Planetary Geology involves the origin and age of the solid bodies in the solar system (planets, satellites, asteroids, comets, and rings) and the geological evolution of their surfaces and interiors.

Geological resources such as critical metals and minerals, essential for the diffusion of technologies such as renewable ...

Without a magnetic field, the Moon’s surface is exposed to solar wind. These could have been depositing resources like water and potential rocket fuel on the Moon’s surface for billions of years.

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 128, No. 964 (2016 June), pp. 1-20 (20 pages) Radar exploration of the Solar System changed dramatically during and beyond the period of ...

These questions require a diverse background of physical science, and a majority of planetary science is interdisciplinary, using techniques from geology, biology, chemistry, astrophysics, physics and ...

Stargazers in parts of the U.S. have a fleeting opportunity this month to catch a rare celestial phenomena—a "parade" of seven planets—for the last time until the year 2036.

"Planetary geophysics is the study of how planets ... Geophysics is a combination of geology and physics but also incorporates mathematics, chemistry, atmospheric science, seismology, mineralogy ...

Geology is broadly the study of the Earth and other planets, moons, and smaller planetary bodies. Fields of geology range from the initial formation and differentiation of the Earth to modern ...

Structural geology is the study of the deformation of the surface and subsurface of the Earth and other planetary bodies. This deformation reflects past changes in local and regional stress and ...