Just last week, the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover landed in the Jezero Crater. Now, for the first time ever, NASA has released footage of this landing. 

 

To mark this monumental occasion, we’d like to kick off our next installment of The Spectroscopist newsletter with our feature from a team using Raman spectroscopy to search for mixed sulfates in martian soil - a key indicator of biological life. Also in the mix: our Image of the Month on the oldest terrestrial fossil ever found, and two quick hits on detecting tumours in the brain and how tree rings can reveal a millennium of solar activity. 

Enjoy! Lauren Robertson, Deputy Editor

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SPECTROSCOPY
In Search of Sulfates - and Aliens!
02/19/2021 | Juan Manuel Madariaga, Duncan Stacey
Juan Manuel Madariaga and Duncan Stacey discuss the hunt for sulfates on the Red Planet
MASS SPECTROMETRY
Image of the Month: Old Mold
02/12/2021 | Lauren Robertson
Discovery of the oldest terrestrial fossil could rejig our planet’s timeline
SPECTROSCOPY
Spectroscopy on the Brain
02/24/2021 | Matt Hallam
Could a combined spectroscopy approach prove a secret weapon in the fight against glioblastoma?
MASS SPECTROMETRY
The Tree of (Solar) Life
02/23/2021 | Lauren Robertson
Researchers have used radioactive carbon in tree rings to look back through a millennium of solar activity
 
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