Earth science

China’s present and future lunar exploration program

Chunlai Li, Chi Wang, Yong Wei, Yangting Lin

Citations: 244 • 2019

Cave Biosignature Suites: Microbes, Minerals, and Mars

Penelope J. Boston, M. Spilde, Diana E. Northup, Leslie A. Melim, D.S. Soroka, L.G. Kleina, Kathleen H. Lavoie, Louise D. Hose, Lawrence M. Mallory, C. N. Dahm, Laura J. Crossey, Rachel T. Schelble

Citations: 231 • 2001

Understanding the Application of Raman Spectroscopy to the Detection of Traces of Life

Craig P. Marshall, Howell G. M. Edwards, Jan Jehlička

Citations: 187 • 2010

Back to the Moon: The scientific rationale for resuming lunar surface exploration

Ian Crawford, M. Anand, Charles S. Cockell, H. Falcke, D.A. Green, R. Jaumann, M. A. Wieczorek

Citations: 177 • 2012

Applications of marine robotic vehicles

J. Yuh, Giacomo Marani, D.R. Blidberg

Citations: 169 • 2011

Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) applied to terrestrial and extraterrestrial analogue geomaterials with emphasis to minerals and rocks

N. Senesi

Citations: 149 • 2014

Impact crater lakes on Mars

H. E. Newsom, Gregory E. Brittelle, C. A. Hibbitts, Laura J. Crossey, Albert M. Kudo

Citations: 137 • 1996

Craters on Mars: Global Geometric Properties from Gridded MOLA Topography

J. B. Garvin, S. E. H. Sakimoto, J. J. Frawley

Citations: 129 • 2003

Establishing a new era of submarine volcanic observatories: Cabling Axial Seamount and the Endeavour Segment of the Juan de Fuca Ridge

Deborah S. Kelley, John R. Delaney, S. Kim Juniper

Citations: 121 • 2014

Impact of surface roughness and soil texture on mineral dust emission fluxes modeling

Laurent Menut, Carlos Pérez García‐Pando, Karsten Haustein, Bertrand Bessagnet, Catherine Prigent, S. C. Alfaro

Citations: 116 • 2013

The Geology of Mars: evidence from Earth-based analogs

Citations: 114 • 2008

The provenance, formation, and implications of reduced carbon phases in Martian meteorites

A. Steele, F. M. McCubbin, M. Fries

Citations: 112 • 2016

Volcanological applications of unoccupied aircraft systems (UAS): Developments, strategies, and future challenges

M. R. James, B. B. Carr, Fiona D’Arcy, A. K. Diefenbach, Hannah R. Dietterich, Alessandro Fornaciai, Einat Lev, Emma Liu, David C. Pieri, Mel Rodgers, Benoît Smets, Akihiko Terada, Felix W. von Aulock, Thomas R. Walter, Kieran Wood, Edgar U. Zorn

Citations: 109 • 2020

Lunar exploration: opening a window into the history and evolution of the inner Solar System

Ian Crawford, K. H. Joy

Citations: 92 • 2014

Rootless cones on Mars: a consequence of lava-ground ice interaction

S. A. Fagents, P. D. Lanagan, R. Greeley

Citations: 90 • 2002

Volcaniclastic habitats for early life on Earth and Mars: A case study from ∼3.5Ga-old rocks from the Pilbara, Australia

Francès Westall, Frédéric Foucher, Barbara Cavalazzi, Sjoukje T. de Vries, Wouter Nijman, V. K. Pearson, Jonathan S. Watson, A. B. Verchovsky, I. P. Wright, Jean‐Noël Rouzaud, Daniele Marchesini, Severine Anne

Citations: 83 • 2010

The progress of extraterrestrial regolith-sampling robots

Tao Zhang, Kun Xu, Zhixiao Yao, Xilun Ding, Zeng Zhao, Xuyan Hou, Yong Pang, Xiaoming Lai, Wenming Zhang, Shuting Liu, Jianfeng Deng

Citations: 79 • 2019

Constraining the Evolutionary History of the Moon and the Inner Solar System: A Case for New Returned Lunar Samples

Romain Tartèse, M. Anand, J. Gattacceca, K. H. Joy, James Mortimer, J. F. Pernet‐Fisher, S. S. Russell, J. F. Snape, B. P. Weiss

Citations: 71 • 2019

Claritas rise, Mars: Pre-Tharsis magmatism?

J. M. Dohm, Robert C. Anderson, J. P. Williams, Javier Ruíz, Patrick McGuire, D. L. Buczkowski, Ruye Wang, L. Scharenbroich, T. M. Hare, J. E. P. Connerney, Victor R. Baker, Shawn J. Wheelock, J. C. Ferris

Citations: 71 • 2009

Review on planetary regolith-sampling technology

Tao Zhang, Bin Wang, Hongyu Wei, Yinliang Zhang, Chaoyue Chao, Kun Xu, Xilun Ding, Xuyan Hou, Zeng Zhao

Citations: 68 • 2021