In addition to Lapen, the team includes Alan Brandon, an associate professor in UH's department of earth and atmospheric sciences, and their two post-doctoral researchers Minako Righter and John Shafer. Other collaborators were Brian Beard from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and NASA Astrobiology Institute, Vinciane Debaille from the University of Bruxelles and Anne Peslier, a research scientist at Jacobs Technology working at NASA Johnson Space Center.
Tom Lapen, Ph.D., discusses ALH84001. Lapen's research found that the Martian meteorite formed during an important time when Mars was wet and had a magnetic field.
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Tom Lapen, Ph.D., discusses his research on the younger age of a popular Martian meteorite and what it means to the history of volcanic activity on Mars.
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Tom Lapen and his colleagues' data showed that the true age of ALH84001 is about 400 million years younger than earlier age estimates.
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Source: University of Houston