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Four Uranian Moons Host Subsurface Oceans, New Research Suggests

Four Uranian Moons Host Subsurface Oceans, New Research Suggests

Posted by By News Staff May 5, 2023
The five large moons of Uranus — Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon — are important targets for future spacecraft missions. Studying these bodies would help address the extent of…
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ShadowCam Captures Spectacular Photos of Moon’s South Polar Region

ShadowCam Captures Spectacular Photos of Moon’s South Polar Region

Posted by By News Staff May 1, 2023
NASA’s ShadowCam instrument is flying with five other instruments aboard KARI’s Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO), also known as Danuri, which launched on August 4, 2022. This image of Shackleton…
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Genetically Modified Rice Could Actually Grow in Martian Regolith, New Study Suggests

Genetically Modified Rice Could Actually Grow in Martian Regolith, New Study Suggests

Posted by By Enrico de Lazaro April 27, 2023
One of the biggest challenges to growing food on Mars is the presence of perchlorate salts, which have been detected in the Martian regolith (soil) and are generally considered to…
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InSight Detects Seismic Waves Traveling through Martian Liquid Core

InSight Detects Seismic Waves Traveling through Martian Liquid Core

Posted by By News Staff April 25, 2023
Mars has a liquid iron alloy core at its center. Using seismic data gathered by NASA’s InSight lander, planetary scientists have made the first observations of seismic waves traveling through…
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ESA’s JUICE Spacecraft Sends Its First Images from Space

ESA’s JUICE Spacecraft Sends Its First Images from Space

Posted by By News Staff April 19, 2023
ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) has taken its first monitoring camera images showing part of the spacecraft with our home planet as a stunning backdrop. This image was taken…
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Local Tectonic Activity Could Cause Landslides on Icy Satellites of Jupiter and Saturn

Local Tectonic Activity Could Cause Landslides on Icy Satellites of Jupiter and Saturn

Posted by By News Staff April 17, 2023
Intense tectonism is evident on many outer solar system satellites — such as Ganymede, Europa, and Enceladus — with some surface regions showing ridge-and-trough structures which have characteristics suggestive of…
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ESA’s JUICE Spacecraft Launches to Study Jupiter’s Icy Moons

ESA’s JUICE Spacecraft Launches to Study Jupiter’s Icy Moons

Posted by By News Staff April 17, 2023
ESA’s latest interplanetary mission, the JUpiter ICy Moons Explorer (JUICE), lifted off on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, at 14:14 CEST on April 14, 2023, to begin its eight-year…
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Saturn’s Rings are Heating Gas Giant’s Upper Atmosphere, Astronomers Say

Saturn’s Rings are Heating Gas Giant’s Upper Atmosphere, Astronomers Say

Posted by By News Staff March 30, 2023
The most feasible explanation is that icy ring particles raining down onto Saturn’s atmosphere cause this heating, according to a team of astronomers who analyzed several datasets obtained by the…
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Venus is Home to At Least 85,000 Volcanoes, Planetary Researchers Say

Venus is Home to At Least 85,000 Volcanoes, Planetary Researchers Say

Posted by By News Staff March 30, 2023
There are many thousands of volcanoes on the surface of Venus. These volcanoes provide clues into the interior properties of the planet, properties that are otherwise largely inaccessible to scientists…
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Impact Glass Beads from the Moon Contain Solar Wind-Derived Water, Study Shows

Impact Glass Beads from the Moon Contain Solar Wind-Derived Water, Study Shows

Posted by By News Staff March 29, 2023
Scientists from China and the United States have analyzed the impact glass beads from a lunar soil sample returned by China’s Chang’e-5 mission. Asteroid and comet impacts are the major…
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Astronomers Propose New Definition of Planet

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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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