Shock Experiments with Implications to Planetary Science

Application of shock compression science to Earth and planetary physics

Experiments With a Long-Range Planetary Rover

SR2 is a solar powered autonomous planetary rover designed and built at the University of Oklahoma in collaboration with Malin Space Science Systems. This robot was created to explore the feasibility of long autonomous traverses through Marslike terrain – traverses in excess of a kilometer a day requiring no more than a single communications between the robot and mission control. This is a subs...

Galactic planetary science

Planetary science beyond the boundaries of our Solar System is today in its infancy. Until a couple of decades ago, the detailed investigation of the planetary properties was restricted to objects orbiting inside the Kuiper Belt. Today, we cannot ignore that the number of known planets has increased by two orders of magnitude nor that these planets resemble anything but the objects present in o...

Lunar and Planetary Science

How to Conduct Science Experiments

Since before the time of the Ancient Greeks, thousands of years ago, people have tried to find out more about the world around them, wondering how and why things work. Scientists come up with many great ideas to show how things work, but for an idea to become accepted, it has to be tested [1]. The tool scientists use to test their theories is called the scientific method [2]. Whether you are st...