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Detecting Extraterrestrial Life on Enceladus Could Be Achieved without Landing: Study

Posted by By News Staff January 2, 2023
Enceladus, the sixth-biggest moon of Saturn, is a top candidate in the search for extraterrestrial life in the Solar System. An artist’s impression of NASA’s Cassini spacecraft flying through plumes…
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Trace Gas Detection Sheds New Light on Atmospheres of Jupiter and Its Volcanic Moon Io

Posted by By Natali Anderson December 28, 2022
Using data from NSF’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and NASA’s Juno spacecraft, two teams of astronomers have examined the distribution of…
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Mars Express Spots Two Large Craters at Martian South Pole

Mars Express Spots Two Large Craters at Martian South Pole

Posted by By News Staff December 23, 2022
A new image from the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express orbiter shows an exciting landscape of layered deposits, frost, ice, and dark dunes in Ultimi…
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Records Sound of Martian Dust Devil

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Records Sound of Martian Dust Devil

Posted by By News Staff December 13, 2022
Dust devils — convective vortices loaded with dust — are common at the surface of Mars, particularly at Jezero crater, the landing site of NASA’s Perseverance rover. They are indicators…
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Planetary Scientists Find Evidence for Active Mantle Plume on Mars

Planetary Scientists Find Evidence for Active Mantle Plume on Mars

Posted by By News Staff December 6, 2022
Elysium Planitia, a flat-smooth plain just north of the Martian equator, is underlain by an 4,000-km-diameter active mantle plume, according to new research by scientists from the Lunar and Planetary…
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Chicxulub-Like Asteroid Caused Megatsunami on Early Mars

Chicxulub-Like Asteroid Caused Megatsunami on Early Mars

Posted by By News Staff December 1, 2022
The Chicxulub-like asteroid crash landed in shallow ocean waters in the Martian region of Chryse Planitia 3.4 billion years ago (Hesperian period) and left a crater about 110 km wide,…
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Early Martian Ocean Was Over 300 Meters Deep, New Research Suggests

Early Martian Ocean Was Over 300 Meters Deep, New Research Suggests

Posted by By News Staff November 18, 2022
An analysis of chromium isotopes in Martian meteorites suggests that approximately 4.5 billion years ago, there was enough water for the entire planet to be covered in a 300-m-deep global…
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Martian Springtime Dust Storms Churn Up Surprisingly Earth-Like Cloud Patterns: Study

Martian Springtime Dust Storms Churn Up Surprisingly Earth-Like Cloud Patterns: Study

Posted by By News Staff November 16, 2022
Using images obtained by two orbiting spacecraft, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and ESA’s Mars Express, planetary researchers analyzed textured dust storms that develop at the northern polar cap boundary on…
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Stars and Building Blocks of Their Planets ‘Grow Up’ Together, New Study Suggests

Stars and Building Blocks of Their Planets ‘Grow Up’ Together, New Study Suggests

Posted by By News Staff November 15, 2022
The timing and locations of formation of planetesimals — the building blocks of planets — are crucial to the understanding of planet formation. If we are to form larger planets…
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Mars Express Sees Craters and Fractures in Terra Sirenum

Mars Express Sees Craters and Fractures in Terra Sirenum

Posted by By News Staff October 31, 2022
This new image from the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) aboard ESA’s Mars Express orbiter shows a diverse region southeast of the Pickering crater in Terra Sirenum, a complex cratered…
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Astronomers Propose New Definition of Planet

Established in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union, the current definition specifies that to qualify as a planet, a celestial ...
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Cassini Reveals Surface Properties of Titan’s Hydrocarbon Seas

Saturn’s moon Titan was explored by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft from 2004 to 2017. While Cassini revealed a lot about this ...
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