Geodynamics

Solar System

Iron volcanism on metallic asteroids?

Francis Nimmo and edited by Antoine Rozel July 10, 2019

This week, Francis Nimmo, professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (University of California Santa Cruz), tells us about volcanism on metallic asteroids! Around and after the formation of the solar system (4.5 billion years ago onwards), volcanoes on some of the gigantic bodies of the asteroid belt might have erupted … iron. …[Read More]

Oceans on Mars: the geodynamic record

Robert Citron and edited by Diogo Lourenço October 12, 2018

Apart from our own planet Earth, there are a lot of Peculiar Planets out there! In this series we take a look at a planetary body or system worthy of our geodynamic attention, and this week we are back to our own solar system, more precisely to our neighbour Mars. In this post, Robert Citron, PhD student …[Read More]