Date Posted: 2008-07-28
Earthquake hazard assessment in Arizona is the focus of a new grant awarded to the Arizona Geological Survey and its partner geoscience teams at Arizona State University (ASU), Northern Arizona University (NAU), and the University of Arizona (UA).
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Date Posted: 2008-07-19
The Earth is being systematically scanned. From high above, lasers are
being used to create a three-dimensional, high-resolution map of every
nook and cranny on the Earth's surface....
Date Posted: 2008-07-18
SESE Professor Stanley Williams speaks with KJZZ's Mark Brodie about Arizona's volcanoes, and his death-defying bout with a Colombian volcano....
Date Posted: 2008-07-18
Lynda Williams, Associate Research Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration, is the 2009 winner of the Marion L. and Chrystie M. Jackson Mid-Career Clay Scientist Award. The award recognizes mid-career scientists for excellence in the c...
Date Posted: 2008-06-21
The May 12 Sichuan earthquake in China was unexpectedly large. Analysis of the area, however, now shows that topographic characteristics of the highly mountainous area identified the mountain range as active and could have pointed to the earthquake h...
Date Posted: 2008-06-07
Astronomer helps guide explosive growth in department at ASU...
Date Posted: 2008-06-06
Scientists using a camera designed and operated at Arizona State University's Mars Space Flight Facility have discovered the first evidence for deposits of chloride minerals - salts - in numerous places on Mars. These deposits, say the scientists, sh...
Date Posted: 2008-05-25
After a voyage of 422 million miles, the Mars Phoenix Lander came to a soft stop upon the Martian surface on May 25.
A round of applause is in order to all those involved in the successful mission from those people working at NASA, JPL, and the Un...
Date Posted: 2008-05-22
Ariel Anbar, an associate professor in Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has received a $1,000,000+ grant from NASA's Human Re...
Date Posted: 2008-05-22
A mineral-scouting camera designed at ASU pointed scientists toward an ancient Martian hydrothermal system like those in Yellowstone National Park.
Deposits of nearly pure silica discovered by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit in Gusev Crater for...
