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the News:
Maria Zuber is one of the first faculty profiled on the
new MIT web site.
She's been interested in what goes on far beyond the sky for as
long as she can remember. But the turning point came in 1979 while
she was a student at the University of Pennsylvania and saw images
beamed back from the Voyager spacecraft as it hurtled past the planet
Jupiter. She was quickly entranced, and hooked.
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Taylor Perron and colleagues uncovered the mechanism that
generates widespread patterns in landscapes.
Computer model developed by Taylor Perron and colleagues shows how
evenly-spaced ridges and valleys form over time as a result of erosion
and the slumping of soil. see
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Important
Dates and Events:
Department Lecture Series
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Caption:
Hurricanes are important mechanisms for the regulation of tropical
temperatures. more information