What does LPI stand for?

The study was carried out by scientists from Northern Illinois University and the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, US.

Luo is co-author of the report along with Tomasz Stepinski, a staff scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas.

Luo is co-author of the report along with Tomasz Stepinski, a staff scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas.

At the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston last November, theorists and observers convened for a rare meeting in which they hashed out what each had gleaned about the solar system's early history.

68 QD181 Jointly published by the Mineralogical Society of America and the Lunar and Planetary Institute, this volume collects 20 papers from the July 2004 Workshop on Oxygen in the Terrestrial Planets, the June 2005 Workshop on Oxygen in Asteroids and Meteorites, and the September 2005 Workshop on Oxygen in the Earliest Solar System.

We would like to thank the education department of the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas, for helping us with this poster.

You have to take the long view and not get yourself into a situation like before where we go to the moon and aren't positioned to build on it," said David Black, an astrophysicist and head of a research association that oversees the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston.

The answer may have something to do with the Martian surface itself," says Stephen Clifford, a planetary scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas "At this point, any hypothesis is pure speculation," Three possible scenarios; Polar Lander may have sunk into Martian dust, landed on the side of a canyon and toppled over, or crashed due to a design flaw.