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By Steve Carr
March 28, 2022
Scientists at the University of New Mexico are modeling water in deep Earth using the mineral wadsleyite to determine composition and temperature variations in an effort to decipher the material exchange processes between the upper and lower mantle.
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By Steve Carr
April 23, 2021
It was back in 1610 when Galileo Galilei made the first telescopic observation of Mars and ever since, the fascination with the red planet for scientific research has grown astronomically. Over the course of the next century, astronomers have discovered...
September 05, 2019
The University of New Mexico’s Institute of Meteoritics (IOM) will celebrate its 75th anniversary during UNM’s Homecoming Week on Thursday and Friday, Oct. 24-25.
World-renowned, UNM’s IOM was founded in 1944 as one of the first institutions in the...
By Steve Carr
January 03, 2013
While the Mars' Rovers continue to scour the surface of the Red Planet snapping pictures, zapping rocks and looking at any other clues about its composition, researchers at the University of New Mexico's Institute of Meteoritics have made what could be a...