{"id":3844,"date":"2012-11-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.hmc.edu\/physics\/2012\/11\/13\/good-vibrations-for-habitable-environments-on-ancient-mars-from-orbital-spectroscopy\/"},"modified":"2012-11-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T00:00:00","slug":"good-vibrations-for-habitable-environments-on-ancient-mars-from-orbital-spectroscopy","status":"publish","type":"physics_colloquium","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/research\/colloquium\/good-vibrations-for-habitable-environments-on-ancient-mars-from-orbital-spectroscopy\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Vibrations for Habitable Environments on Ancient Mars from Orbital Spectroscopy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"page-featured-image\" class=\"wp-block-image is-style-alignleft\" data-pic=\"pic-533.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/01\/pic-533.png\" alt=\"Promotional image for talk: Elements of a successful scientific talk\" data-pic=\"pic-533.png\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Speaker(s):<\/strong> Briony Horgan<\/p>\n<p>Infrared spectroscopy from NASA satellites around Mars has revolutionized our understanding of what the surface of the planet looked like 4 billion years ago. In this talk, I will discuss the physics behind solid-state vibrational spectroscopy of minerals at these wavelengths, how we interpret signals from a planetary surface, and how we can use mineralogical data to infer climatic and environmental conditions on ancient Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-3844","physics_colloquium","type-physics_colloquium","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_colloquium\/3844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_colloquium"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/physics_colloquium"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}