Nicholas Schmerr
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Scientific team including UMD geologists analyzed marsquakes from the InSight mission to find a planet with geological activity similar to both Earth and the Moon.
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UMD team is one of eight selected to participate in NASA’s SSERVI program.
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The moon is still tectonically active, according to data from NASA’s Apollo and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter missions.
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New faculty members join five departments and three institutes and centers.
