planetary science
What’s Happening to Jupiter’s Great Red Spot? The Solar System’s Largest Storm Could Finally Disappear
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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot (GRS), an easily visible anticyclonic vortex and the largest such vortex in the Solar System, has intrigued scientists ...
Surprising Phosphate Finding in NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample
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Early analysis of the asteroid Bennu sample returned by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has revealed dust rich in carbon, nitrogen, and organic compounds, ...
‘Impossible’ Discovery Of Frost Near Equator
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This image shows Olympus Mons, the tallest volcano not only on Mars but in the entire Solar System. … [+] The volcano ...
What’s Up With STEVE? New Finding Adds a Twist to the Aurora-Like Enigma
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STEVE, a strange ribbon of purple and green haze discovered by citizen scientists in 2016, just got even weirder. While looking through ...
Shockingly Little Research on Major Threats to Earth
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A comprehensive review has uncovered a significant research gap in understanding the links between biodiversity loss, global pandemics, and climate change. With ...
NASA Spacecraft Has Second Close Encounter With Jupiter Moon—And Sees Space Volcanoes Erupting
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spacecraft on Feb. 2, 2024. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Jupiter’s fiery and chaotic moon Io has been imaged in detail by NASA’s Juno spacecraft after ...
NASA Study Finds Life-Sparking Energy Source and Molecule at Enceladus
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A study zooms in on data that NASA’s Cassini gathered at Saturn’s icy moon and finds evidence of a key ingredient for ...
NASA’s Psyche captures its “first light,” continues testing other instruments
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15 On Dec. 4, the cameras of NASA’s Psyche spacecraft took their first images 26 million kilometers away from Earth. This milestone, ...
NASA Telescope Reveals Clues to Elusive ‘Size Gap’ in Planets
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Exoplanets pushing their atmospheres away may explain a gap in exoplanet masses, according to a team of researchers that recently studied data ...
Researchers Find Evidence of a Lost Planet, Theia, Deep Within Earth’s Core, Shedding Light on the Moon’s Mysterious Origins
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In a recent study, scientists at the California Institute of Technology say that two massive, iron-rich structures lying close to Earth’s core ...
