April 18, 2023
Louis Block Professor Nicholas Dauphas has been selected by NASA to join the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission as a NASA-supported participating scientist.
JAXA’s MMX mission, planned to launch in 2024, will visit the two Martian moons, Phobos and Deimos, land on the surface of Phobos, and collect a surface sample. Plans are for the sample to be delivered to Earth in 2029.
Congratulations, Nicolas!
April 11, 2023
Professor David Keith has joined the Department of the Geophysical Sciences. David previously served as the Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics at the Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and as Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Now, at the University of Chicago, David will lead the Climate Systems Engineering initiative (see this article for more details). Welcome, David!
March 30, 2023
New research by former postdoctoral scholars Jennifer Bergner and Darryl Seligman published in Nature offers a suprisingly simple explanation for interstellar visitor ‘Oumuamua’s weird orbit.
Read the University of Chicago news article here.
The Nature article, "Acceleration of 1I/‘Oumuamua from radiolytically produced H2 in H2O ice," can be found here.