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CarnegieGeoPhys
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Remembering our trustee emeritus Frank Press, a National Medal of Science laureate and former president of the @theNASciences, who died January 29. He was also the Cecil and Ida Green Senior Fellow at @CarnegiePlanets from 1993 to 1997. carnegiescience.edu/news/carnegie-…

.@CarnegiePlanets' Alan Boss chairs the committee that oversees @NASA's Extreme Precision Radial Velocities working group, who are meeting at our downtown DC HQ. They will propose a roadmap for achieving the Doppler precision needed to measure the masses of Earth-like exoplanets.

A long-sought-after class of “superdiamond” carbon clathrates with tunable mechanical and electronic properties was predicted and synthesized by Carnegie’s Li Zhu and Timothy Strobel. Their work is published in @ScienceAdvances carnegiescience.edu/node/2582




















.@s__morrison is walking us though the mineralogy of Mars as detected by the CheMin instrument on @MarsCuriosity. What can the layering of these minerals teach us about the history of water on the Red Planet? #AGU19

.@s__morrison is walking us though the mineralogy of Mars as detected by the CheMin instrument on @MarsCuriosity. What can the layering of these minerals teach us about the history of water on the Red Planet? #AGU19