Today is Citizen Science Day, and we wanted you to have some fun exploring our website and projects! This virtual scavenger hunt takes you around our website, introduces you to our projects, and it just a little bit of fun! When you’re finished, you can check your answers here, and comment below with your score […]
This is a guest blog post from Larry Lebofsky and Theresa Summer. The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) had its National Conference in Atlanta this year from March 15–18, 2018. Founded in 1944, NSTA is the world’s largest organization dedicated to building innovation and excellence in science teaching and learning. The conference in Atlanta was […]
Are you going to the National Science Teachers Association National Conference in Atlanta this week, March 15–18, 2018? CosmoQuest will be there! Please join us for one of our workshops listed below and pick up special CQ swag. EarthMatch: Making Earth Science Culturally Relevant March 15, 2018, 03:30 PM – 04:30 PM Thursday — Georgia […]
We saw in our last post in this series (Post 12) that impact events can change the target rocks in many ways. Some of these changes can be seen from orbit. But something as powerful as an impact event can also change the target rocks in dramatic ways that you can only see close-up. If […]
![“High-reflectance ejecta and low-reflectance impact melt streamers surround this fresh impact crater. NAC M189994606LR, image width 2.25 km” From http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/images Image Credit: [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University].](https://i2.wp.com/cosmoquest.org/x/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/M189994606LR_thumb-125x125.png "CQ Science – Post 12: How Impacts Change the Rocks – Remote Sensing")
As we’ve discussed in this series of posts, impact cratering events are highly energetic. They do much more than explode a huge hole in the ground – such events change the nature of the rocks themselves. Target rocks can be broken to pieces, shattered into dust, shocked with high pressures, completely melted, or even turned […]