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Images of earth and Mars side by side: a mostly blue sphere with a pale reddish landmass in the center mostly, hidden by while swirling clouds, on the left, three-quarter-illuminated, and a smaller, fully-illuminated reddish-brown sphere with some white patches on the visible surface on the right. Image credit: NASA/JPL

Volatile element delivery to the terrestrial planets – constraints from isotope anomalies

July 17, 2023

Cosmochemical investigations on the heritage of volatiles in Earth, Mars, and the Moon more

Cosmochemistry group: Press releases

High-precision laboratory studies of meteorites as well as terrestrial and lunar rocks, which reveal tiny differences in isotopic composition, provide valuable insights into the formation and evolution of the early Solar System, enable dating important events, and help us understand how our Solar System with its planets, moons, and small bodies became what it is today. more

A meterorite: stony object cut in half, with a dark outer skin an granular inner composition. Image souce: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NWA869Meteorite.jpg

Research group “Planetary materials”

High-precision laboratory studies of meteorites as well as terrestrial and lunar rocks, which reveal tiny differences in isotopic composition, provide valuable insights into the formation and evolution of the early Solar System, enable dating important events, and help us understand how our Solar System with its planets, moons, and small bodies became what it is today. more

Earth and Mars were formed from inner Solar System material

December 22, 2021

International research team investigated the isotopic composition of rocky planets in the inner Solar System. more

Herschel solar system Observations

October 15, 2021

Jupiter Mars Planetary Atmospheres Planetary science Venus

Herschel- and ground-based observations of the atmospheres of Venus, Mars, and Jupiter more