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NASA’s Juno Mission Provides Close-Ups of Intriguing Features on Io

NASA’s Juno Mission Provides Close-Ups of Intriguing Features on Io

Posted by By News Staff April 19, 2024
In December 2023 and February 2024, NASA’s Juno spacecraft made extremely close flybys of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io, getting within about 1,500 km (930 miles) of the surface and obtaining…
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Planetary Researchers Solve Mystery of How Pluto Got Its Pear-Shaped Feature

Planetary Researchers Solve Mystery of How Pluto Got Its Pear-Shaped Feature

Posted by By Enrico de Lazaro April 16, 2024
Pluto’s surface is dominated by the huge, pear-shaped basin Sputnik Planitia. It appears to be of impact origin, but modeling has not yet explained its peculiar geometry. Planetary scientists at…
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BepiColombo Detects Oxygen and Carbon Ions in Magnetosphere of Venus

BepiColombo Detects Oxygen and Carbon Ions in Magnetosphere of Venus

Posted by By Natali Anderson April 15, 2024
In August 2021, the ESA/JAXA Mercury-bound BepiColombo spacecraft performed its second flyby of Venus and provided a short-lived observation of its induced magnetosphere. The spacecraft detected cold oxygen and carbon…
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Arrokoth and Other Kuiper Belt Objects Contain Pristine Ices, Study Suggests

Arrokoth and Other Kuiper Belt Objects Contain Pristine Ices, Study Suggests

Posted by By News Staff April 2, 2024
A duo of planetary scientists from Brown University and the SETI Institute has found that the Kuiper Belt object (486958) Arrokoth, which was the target of the January 1, 2019…
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Scientists Create High-Resolution Geological Map of Oxia Planum

Scientists Create High-Resolution Geological Map of Oxia Planum

Posted by By News Staff March 27, 2024
Using data from ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter and NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, planetary scientists have created the 1:30000 scale geological map of Oxia Planum, the landing site for ESA’s…
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Clouds of Venus Could Be Hospitable for Some Forms of Life, New Research Suggests

Clouds of Venus Could Be Hospitable for Some Forms of Life, New Research Suggests

Posted by By News Staff March 20, 2024
Planetary scientists have long speculated about the potential habitability of Venus, not at its hot surface, but in the cloud layers located at 48-60 km altitudes, where temperatures match those found…
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Tricarbon Molecule Detected in Atmosphere of Titan

Tricarbon Molecule Detected in Atmosphere of Titan

Posted by By Natali Anderson March 18, 2024
The tricarbon molecule (C3) is likely produced in the upper atmosphere of Titan by the reaction of abundant acetylene with atomic carbon. This view of Titan is among the last…
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Planetary Scientists Discover Giant Shield Volcano on Mars

Planetary Scientists Discover Giant Shield Volcano on Mars

Posted by By News Staff March 13, 2024
Provisionally designated Noctis Mons, the newly-discovered volcano is located just south of Mars’ equator, in Eastern Noctis Labyrinthus, west of Valles Marineris, the planet’s vast canyon system. Noctis Mons. Image…
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Mars Drives Deep-Ocean Circulation in Earth’s Oceans, Study Suggests

Mars Drives Deep-Ocean Circulation in Earth’s Oceans, Study Suggests

Posted by By News Staff March 13, 2024
Geoscientists from Australia and France have used the geological record of Earth’s deep oceans to discover a connection between the orbits of our home planet and Mars. They’ve discovered a…
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Europa Produces Less Oxygen than Previously Thought

Europa Produces Less Oxygen than Previously Thought

Posted by By News Staff March 4, 2024
Using data from the Jovian Auroral Distributions Experiment (JADE) instrument onboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft, planetary scientists have calculated the rate of oxygen being produced at Jupiter’s icy moon Europa to…
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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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