Research Research conducted in the GHOSST lab. Tectonics on Venus Venus, although very similar to Earth in many ways, has undergone a very different geologic evolution. The geologic and... Structure of Icy Worlds The moons of Jupiter are some of the most confounding bodies in the Solar System. Ganymede and Callisto, for... Geodynamics of Ceres More information coming soon... Consequences of Lunar Magma Ocean Several theories have been advanced to explain the origin of the lunar hemispheric dichotomy – an asymmetry between... Exoplanet Habitability With numerous terrestrial-like exoplanets discovered from the Kepler mission, ranging from ~0.5 to ~2 Earth Radius, it is natural... Ferrovolcanism Recent work suggests that solidification of the 100 km radius core of a mostly mantle-stripped body may progress from... Lunar Basin Structures The formation of impact basins played a dominant role in the evolution of ancient planetary crusts. Despite their importance,... Powering the Early Lunar Core Dynamo Remanent magnetization of the lunar crust and samples indicates the past existence of an ancient, internally generated magnetic field... Early Lunar Chronology with GRAIL Establishing the absolute and relative chronology of ancient lunar events is of fundamental importance to our understanding of early... Mars: Coupling Magmatism and Habitability Several lines of evidence suggest that water – an essential requirement for known life – was once abundant at... Mercury: Volcanism & Mantle Dynamics Analyses of Mercury’s surface by the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft have identified a large... GRAIL Reveals Beneath the Lunar Maria With gravity data acquired by the dual Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft, in conjunction with altimetry data... Water in the Deep Moon Until recently, the Moon had been thought to have a relatively low volatile content due to a combination of... Erosion on Mars Arabia Terra, with an area of approximately 10 million square kilometers centered at (25E, 5N), is an anomalous region...
Tectonics on Venus Venus, although very similar to Earth in many ways, has undergone a very different geologic evolution. The geologic and... Structure of Icy Worlds The moons of Jupiter are some of the most confounding bodies in the Solar System. Ganymede and Callisto, for... Geodynamics of Ceres More information coming soon... Consequences of Lunar Magma Ocean Several theories have been advanced to explain the origin of the lunar hemispheric dichotomy – an asymmetry between... Exoplanet Habitability With numerous terrestrial-like exoplanets discovered from the Kepler mission, ranging from ~0.5 to ~2 Earth Radius, it is natural... Ferrovolcanism Recent work suggests that solidification of the 100 km radius core of a mostly mantle-stripped body may progress from... Lunar Basin Structures The formation of impact basins played a dominant role in the evolution of ancient planetary crusts. Despite their importance,... Powering the Early Lunar Core Dynamo Remanent magnetization of the lunar crust and samples indicates the past existence of an ancient, internally generated magnetic field... Early Lunar Chronology with GRAIL Establishing the absolute and relative chronology of ancient lunar events is of fundamental importance to our understanding of early... Mars: Coupling Magmatism and Habitability Several lines of evidence suggest that water – an essential requirement for known life – was once abundant at... Mercury: Volcanism & Mantle Dynamics Analyses of Mercury’s surface by the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft have identified a large... GRAIL Reveals Beneath the Lunar Maria With gravity data acquired by the dual Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft, in conjunction with altimetry data... Water in the Deep Moon Until recently, the Moon had been thought to have a relatively low volatile content due to a combination of... Erosion on Mars Arabia Terra, with an area of approximately 10 million square kilometers centered at (25E, 5N), is an anomalous region...
