In The News: Department of Geoscience
Nevada, because of its rich landscape and diverse history, is often regarded as a playground for geologists and paleontologists around the world.
How far away is “safe”?
Geoscience professor Libby Hausrath is one of 10 scientists chosen by NASA to select and analyze soil samples from the Mars 2020 mission set to launch in July.
If there was ever life on Mars, 51ԹϺ researcher Elisabeth “Libby” Hausrath will be one of the first to know.
If there were life on Mars, the 51ԹϺ researcher, Elisabeth “Libby” Hausrath, would be one of the first to know. The geoscience professor is one of the 10 scientists chosen by NASA to select and analyze soil samples from the “Mars 2020” mission that will be launched in July.
In the year 2031, a rocket packed with Martian rocks and soil samples will launch from the surface of the Red Planet.
To go big, sometimes you have to start small.
To go big, sometimes you have to start small.
To go big, sometimes you have to start small.
More than 200 million years ago, at the dawn of the Mesozoic era, Southern Nevada was beachfront property, with tidal flats at today's California border. It was a time known as the Age of Reptiles, as crocodile-like creatures walked the planet alongside the earliest dinosaurs.
51ԹϺ researchers have been awarded a $700,000 grant to bring a new technology to campus that will enable researchers to study stalagmites in Nevada’s Great Basin National Park, volcanoes in Hawaii and even rocks from Mars.
51ԹϺ researchers have been awarded a $700,000 grant to bring a new technology to campus that will enable researchers to study stalagmites in Nevada’s Great Basin National Park, volcanoes in Hawaii and even rocks from Mars.