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Mars’ missing atmosphere could be hiding in plain sight
September 25, 2024![Photo shows the rover’s long arm and the rocky brown Martian soil.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/MIT-Mars-Organics-01-press-scaled-575x0-c-default.jpg)
![The surface of Titan, containing lake-shaped crevices.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/MIT_titans-lakes-erosion-01-PRESS-575x0-c-default.jpg)
Study: Titan’s lakes may be shaped by waves
June 19, 2024![A glacier flows into a fjord in the southwest coast of Greenland.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/MIT-Ice-Flow-Ranganathan-01-press-scaled-575x0-c-default.jpg)
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![In darkness, thumbs hold two small spherical and one small cube objects that light up in vivid yellow, red, and green.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/MIT-Granular-Material-01-press-resized-575x0-c-default.jpg)
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Climate Explained: Enhanced rock weathering
November 9, 2023![Earth split open in center showing inner structure layer-by-layer](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/MIT_Rock-Sounds-01-copy_resized-575x0-c-default.jpg)
Boom, crackle, pop: Sounds of Earth’s crust
October 9, 2023![An Amazonian village with about 20 huts that form a large a ring around an empty, brown, circular area. Lots of trees are around the village.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/MIT-AmazonEarth-01-press-575x0-c-default.jpg)
Ancient Amazonians intentionally created fertile “dark earth”
September 20, 2023![Radar image of a lake taken from high above Titan's surface shows liquid areas as dark blue and land areas as dark yellow.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/MIT_Rivers-from-Orbit-01-scaled-575x0-c-default.jpg)
Studying rivers from worlds away
July 10, 2023![](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/ambient-sensing-collage-00-580x0-c-default.jpg)
Sensing the world around us
June 26, 2023![An aerial view of Mauna Loa showing the volcano in pinks, yellows and purples.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Muna-Loa-lava-flow-1-aspect-ratio-3-2-1-575x0-c-default.jpg)
![Illustration has a black, rocky background, a large river forks off. A large greenfin darter is overlayed on the large river. The 3 forks each have smaller greenfin darters, each with a unique colorful glow.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/MIT-FishyGeology-01-press-scaled-575x0-c-default.jpg)
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![Becca Mastrola sits on a rock formation and smiles at the camera.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/unlocking-age-old-secrets-stone-01-1-aspect-ratio-3-2-1-575x0-c-default.jpg)
Unlocking Age-Old Secrets Set in Stone
May 2, 2023![5 vertical photos show granular objects: marbles, glass beads, seaglass, rocks, and plastic beads.](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/MIT-GrainFlow-01-press-575x0-c-default.jpg)
Moving water and earth
January 11, 2023![](https://eaps.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Bosak-Tanja-MIT-press-scaled-575x0-c-default.jpg)