In 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.     see details

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 details

Important Dates and Events:

Department Lecture Series

"New Insight into the Mechanism of Glacial Termination from Atmospheric Oxygen, Krypton, and Xenon"
Professor Jeff P. Severinghaus, Geosciences Research Division, University of California, San Diego
November 19, 2009 at 4:00 p.m. in 54-915

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The topography of Mars shows geologic features we recognize from Earth's surface. more information