After a 203-day journey traversing 293 million miles, the Mars exploration rover Perseverance landed successfully on the surface of the red planet at 3:55 p.m. EST on February 18, much to the delight of Distinguished...
In a study of the ancient Gale Crater on Mars, Hurowitz and scientists from Rice University determined that Iceland’s climate is the closest to ancient Mars.
On average, the distance between Mars and Earth is about 140 million miles. But even that great distance is not too much to prevent a Stony Brook professor from helping scientists investigate signs of past life on the...
As a young undergraduate student in Canada, Scott McLennan planned to spend his life studying the composition and characteristics of the Earth, and in 1987, he began teaching in Stony Brook’s Department of Geosciences...