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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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NASA Scientists Unveil Design for Europa Clipper’s ‘Golden Record’

NASA Scientists Unveil Design for Europa Clipper’s ‘Golden Record’

Posted by By News Staff March 12, 2024
NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft will carry a triangular metal plate with a special message when it launches in October 2024 and heads toward Jupiter’s moon Europa. This side of 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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Mars Express Spots Sand Dunes and Ice Layers at Martian North Pole

Mars Express Spots Sand Dunes and Ice Layers at Martian North Pole

Posted by By News Staff March 1, 2024
New images from the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft show the terrain surrounding the permanent north polar ice cap of Mars. This image from ESA’s…
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Asteroid Moonlet Dimorphos May Have Been Reshaped Following Impact from NASA’s DART Mission

Asteroid Moonlet Dimorphos May Have Been Reshaped Following Impact from NASA’s DART Mission

Posted by By News Staff February 29, 2024
On September 26, 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission successfully impacted Dimorphos, the natural satellite of the binary near-Earth asteroid Didymos. New numerical simulations indicate that the DART…
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Ancient Mars May Have Had Hydrothermal Systems

Ancient Mars May Have Had Hydrothermal Systems

Posted by By News Staff February 22, 2024
The history of water on Mars is a puzzle that is of interest to planetary scientists as well as the general public. The Red Planet currently has water in the…
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Kuiper Belt May Be Much Larger than Previously Estimated

Kuiper Belt May Be Much Larger than Previously Estimated

Posted by By News Staff February 20, 2024
Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) are thought to be the dominant source of interplanetary dust particles in the outer Solar System due to both collisions between KBOs and their continual bombardment…
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Titan Most Likely Non-Habitable, Astrobiologists Say

Titan Most Likely Non-Habitable, Astrobiologists Say

Posted by By News Staff February 20, 2024
Saturn’s moon Titan has an organic-rich atmosphere and surface with a subsurface ocean that may represent a habitable environment. In a new study, astrobiologists determined the amount of organic material…
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Webb Finds Evidence of Hydrothermal Processes in Interiors of Eris and Makemake

Webb Finds Evidence of Hydrothermal Processes in Interiors of Eris and Makemake

Posted by By News Staff February 15, 2024
The icy dwarf planets Eris and Makemake have surfaces bearing methane ice of unknown origin. According to an analysis of data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, Eris and…
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SOFIA Detects Molecular Water on Nominally Dry Asteroids

SOFIA Detects Molecular Water on Nominally Dry Asteroids

Posted by By News Staff February 13, 2024
Using the FORCAST instrument on NASA’s retired Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), astronomers have obtained mid-infrared spectra of four S-type (silicate-rich) asteroids: Iris, Parthenope, Melpomene, and Massalia. They’ve detected…
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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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Ancient Mars was Cool and Relatively Wet, New Study Suggests

In a new study, planetary scientists found strong similarities between soils found in Gale Crater on Mars and those of ...
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