Once upon a time, NASA had big plans for the Moon. Really big. Gizmodo reports that back in the early 1960’s NASA commissioned General Motors to build the MOLAB, a mobile geological laboratory that ...

The rigor of operating outside the atmosphere has often led to rather outlandish NASA vehicle designs, but few have been more alien than this mobile lunar field laboratory from the heyday of the Space ...

Here’s what it is like to spend the summer as a funded research assistant in a Bates geology lab that, among many other steps, melts chemical mixes in an oven at temperatures up to 1750 degrees ...

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Graduate studies in the Department of Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences focus on understanding and safely managing the Earth and its resources for the future, with degrees leading to ...