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High-Energy Electrons from Earth’s Plasma Sheet May Be Forming Water on Lunar Surface

High-Energy Electrons from Earth’s Plasma Sheet May Be Forming Water on Lunar Surface

Posted by By News Staff September 18, 2023
Planetary scientists from the University of Hawaii and elsewhere suggest that although they have confirmed the importance of the solar wind as a major source of water production on the…
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Lucy Sends Back Its First Images of Main-Belt Asteroid Dinkinesh

Lucy Sends Back Its First Images of Main-Belt Asteroid Dinkinesh

Posted by By Enrico de Lazaro September 12, 2023
The small main-belt asteroid (152830) Dinkinesh was recently added to NASA’s Lucy mission and will be the first fly-by target on November 1, 2023. This image of the main-belt asteroid…
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4.6-Billion-Year-Old Meteorite Provides New Insights into Early Solar Nebula

4.6-Billion-Year-Old Meteorite Provides New Insights into Early Solar Nebula

Posted by By News Staff August 29, 2023
Scientists have determined a precise lead isotopic age of the andesitic achondrite meteorite Erg Chech 002. Their result, combined with published aluminum-26-magnesium-26 data for Erg Chech 002 and other achondrites,…
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ESA’s Mars Express Focuses on Surroundings of Olympus Mons Volcano

ESA’s Mars Express Focuses on Surroundings of Olympus Mons Volcano

Posted by By News Staff August 24, 2023
Lava flows on Olympus Mons probably melted ice in the ground, making the volcano flank unstable; rockfalls and landslides moved hundreds of km into the surrounding landscape, forming a characteristic…
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Early Mars Had a Sustained, Cyclic, Possibly Seasonal, Climate

Early Mars Had a Sustained, Cyclic, Possibly Seasonal, Climate

Posted by By News Staff August 10, 2023
New observations of mud cracks made by NASA’s Curiosity rover show that high-frequency, wet-dry cycling occurred in early Martian surface environments, indicating that the Red Planet may have once seen…
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Mars is Spinning Faster, Planetary Researchers Say

Mars is Spinning Faster, Planetary Researchers Say

Posted by By News Staff August 9, 2023
To track the Red Planet’s spin rate, planetary scientists relied on the Rotation and Interior Structure Experiment (RISE) onboard NASA’s InSight lander. They found the planet’s rotation is accelerating by…
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Webb Detects Hydrogen Peroxide on Ganymede

Webb Detects Hydrogen Peroxide on Ganymede

Posted by By News Staff July 30, 2023
Jupiter’s moon Ganymede is the only satellite in the Solar System known to have an intrinsic magnetic field. Interactions between this field and the magnetosphere of Jupiter are expected to…
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Early, Energetic Collisions Could Have Fueled Venus Volcanism: Study

Early, Energetic Collisions Could Have Fueled Venus Volcanism: Study

Posted by By News Staff July 20, 2023
New research shows that long-lived volcanism, driven by early, energetic collisions on Venus, offers an explanation of its young surface age with stagnant-lid tectonics. This volcanic activity is fuelled by…
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Auroral Mechanisms May Be Universal throughout Our Solar System

Auroral Mechanisms May Be Universal throughout Our Solar System

Posted by By News Staff July 18, 2023
An analysis of data obtained during the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft’s first Mercury flyby reveals that Mercury’s southern magnetosphere aurorae are similar to those seen on Earth and Mars. An artist’s…
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Perseverance Finds Diverse Organic Molecules in Jezero Crater

Perseverance Finds Diverse Organic Molecules in Jezero Crater

Posted by By News Staff July 12, 2023
The Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC) instrument onboard NASA’s Perseverance rover has detected several species of aromatic organic molecules in the Máaz and…
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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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