Edwin Kite

Departmental website:
http://sseh.uchicago.edu/

Edwin Kite is a planetary scientist who studies the evolution of rocky planets. Kite and the students and postdocs working with him - the Solar System and Exoplanet Habitability research group - use models and geologic data analysis to address questions including Which exoplanets have atmospheres, and why?, Why did Mars' surface become uninhabitable?, and Is terraforming Mars feasible?

Kite is a member of the Mars Curiosity rover science team, a co-recipient of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Newcomb Cleveland Prize for the most outstanding paper published in Science, and a recipient of the the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Greeley Early Career Award in Planetary Science. He is a former Scialog Fellow.

Edwin Kite

  • Title: Associate Professor, Department of the Geophysical Sciences
  • Education: BA, MSci, both from Cambridge University; PhD, University of California, Berkeley
  • Joined UChicago faculty: 2015
  • kite@uchicago.edu
  • @edwinkite

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Kite Stories

In surprise discovery, NASA rover finds cracks in ancient Martian mud NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover takes a selfie on Mars

In surprise discovery, NASA rover finds cracks in ancient Martian mud

Was Venus ever habitable? New UChicago study casts doubt Side by side view of Venus and Earth

Was Venus ever habitable? New UChicago study casts doubt

Why did Mars dry out? New study points to unusual answers Overhead view of large formation with a dry riverbed cutting through center

Why did Mars dry out? New study points to unusual answers

Icy clouds could have kept early Mars warm enough for rivers and lakes, study finds Illustration of Mars Perseverance

Icy clouds could have kept early Mars warm enough for rivers and lakes, study finds

There might be many planets with water-rich atmospheres Artist illustration of the exoplanet WASP-121b

There might be many planets with water-rich atmospheres

Climate change will ultimately cost humanity $100,000 per ton of carbon, scientists estimate Visualization map showing sea level rise from 1992 to 2014

Climate change will ultimately cost humanity $100,000 per ton of carbon, scientists estimate

UChicago study illuminates fates of distant planetary atmospheres Extrasolar Planets

UChicago study illuminates fates of distant planetary atmospheres

Why some planets eat their own skies View of a star partially obscured by a large rocky planet with magma ocean

Why some planets eat their own skies

Salt deposits on Mars hold clues to sources of ancient water Salt mountain

Salt deposits on Mars hold clues to sources of ancient water

Rivers raged on Mars late into its history River in Mars

Rivers raged on Mars late into its history