Martian Meteorites Shed Light on Solar System’s Early Dynamics
Dante Lauretta is a professor of planetary sciences at the University of Arizona. Where do meteorites come from? Well, a lot of them come from Mars…:
Read MoreScientists, Explorers Keen to Locate Water-Bearing Asteroids
Dante Lauretta is principal investigator on NASA”s OSIRIS-REx mission, which is bringing back samples from Asteroid Bennu. Researchers on the mission are keen to find asteroids containing water:
Read MoreA Remarkably Constant History of Meteorite Strikes
Dante Lauretta is a professor of planetary sciences at the University of Arizona. This Eos article talks about how scientists have been able to trace Earth’s history of meteorite impacts from analyzing sea sediments:
Read MoreAsteroid Bennu Is Rotating Faster Over Time
Dante Lauretta is principal investigator on NASA”s OSIRIS-REx mission, which is bringing back samples from Asteroid Bennu. Here’s a press release about Bennu from 2019 in Eos about its increasing speed:
Read MoreJames Webb Space Telescope
Dante Lauretta is principal investigator on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. Eos’s August 2021 issue covered another upcoming NASA mission, the James Webb Space Telescope:
Read MoreGlassy Nodules Pinpoint a Meteorite Impact
Dante Lauretta is waiting to get samples from Asteroid Bennu as part of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. In other asteroid news, scientists think a meteorite struck Chile’s Atacama Desert a long time ago- read why in Eos:
Read MoreBetween a Varnished Rock and a Hard Place
Dante Lauretta is principal investigator on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. How do you study space when you’re on Earth? Check out this Third Pod episode about how rocks in New Mexico can help us understand Mars:
Read MoreExploring Planetary Breadcrumbs One Asteroid at a Time
Dante Lauretta is currently working on bringing back samples from Asteroid Bennu through NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. Read about the different asteroid missions happening at the moment, including OSIRIS-REx, in Eos:
Read MoreEjecta Discovered Near Site of Ancient Meteorite Impact
Dante Lauretta is currently working on getting samples back from Asteroid Bennu. Back on Earth, researchers in South Africa recently found the first signs of ejecta from a massive meteorite impact.
Read MoreLori Glaze on Nudging Asteroids
Dante Lauretta and Lori Glaze both studied asteroids at NASA. Check out Lori’s Sci and Tell episode here:
Read MoreMission to Venus Could Help Solve an Atmospheric Mystery
Dante Lauretta is principal investigator on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. In June, NASA announced a new mission to Venus, the DAVINCI+. Eos wrote about what we could learn from it in this article:
Read MoreUp Close with an Active Asteroid
Dante Lauretta is principal investigator for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which focuses on studying Asteroid Bennu. Dante and his colleagues gave us an in depth look at Asteroid Bennu in this Eos article:
Read MoreEarthly Lava Tubes May Offer Insights into Extraterrestrial Life
Dante Lauretta’s first job at NASA was to search for extraterrestrial life- how cool is that?! This recent Eos article spotlights research done on Earth that gives us insight into potential life on Mars!
Read MoreFinal Frontier? The Evolution of Planetary Science Missions
Dante Lauretta has been working on the planetary mission OSIRIS-REx since 2004! Curious about other NASA planetary science missions? Check out this Third Pod episode with Fran Benegal:
Read MoreAn Asteroid “Double Disaster” Struck Germany in the Miocene
Dante Lauretta is excited to be analyzing samples from Asteroid Bennu in 2 years! More recently, some scientists studying ground samples in Germany learned some cool stuff about 2 asteroids:
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