Marshall Space Flight Center

SEISMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SHALLOW ( 0- 1 m) SOILS ON THE MOON AND MARS: ICE IN SOILS.

We highlight a payload concept where piezo-sensors are used to characterize the shal-low subsurface (0-1 m) regolith of planetary bodies. Our group’s long-term mission is to design a seismolo-gy instrument as a promising low-cost, low-risk, high-reward payload candidate to permit...

Experimental three-dimensional dendrite tip shape characterization by interferometry and phase-field comparison during columnar directional solidification

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Multi-scale evapotranspiration and evaporative stress as indicators of vegetation health and drought response – an application in central Missouri, USA

Satellite estimates of evapotranspiration (ET) based on thermal infrared retrievals of land-surface temperature enable monitoring of vegetation water use and health/stress at sub-field to global scales. The information content of these products varies with pixel size, reflecting...