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Research in the Lab

[Research in the Lab]

Gene Shoemaker (left) and Ray Batson


Astrogeology Research Program

Laboratory Spectroscopy of Dust Coatings and Shocked Minerals: Exploration of the laboratory thermal infrared and visible/near-infrared spectroscopy of palagonitic dust coatings on rock substrates and experimentally shocked pyroxene and Ca-rich plagioclase feldspar