The planets in the Solar System are typically divided into three categories based on their composition: the four terrestrial rocky planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars), followed by the two […]
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Electric Sparks Detected By Perseverance In Mars Dust Devils And Storms
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has recorded the sounds of electrical discharges —sparks — and mini-sonic booms in dust devils on Mars. Long theorized, the phenomenon has now been confirmed through […]
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How Superstorm Gannon Squeezed Earth’s Plasmasphere To One-fifth Its Size
A geomagnetic superstorm is an extreme space weather event that occurs when the Sun releases massive amounts of energy and charged particles toward Earth. These storms are rare, occurring about […]
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The Exospace Weather Frontier
Space weather is among the most powerful and least understood forces shaping planetary atmospheres. In our Solar System, we observe its effects directly: atmospheric escape, chemical disruption, and spectacular auroral […]
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NASA’s ESCAPADE Mission To Mars — Twin UC Berkeley Satellites Will Launch In Early November
The first dual-satellite mission to another planet, NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers), is scheduled for launch no earlier than Sunday, Nov. 9, from Cape Canaveral, Florida. […]
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Bacteria Reveal Hidden Powers Of Electricity Transfer
Microbes are masters of survival, evolving ingenious strategies to capture energy from their surroundings. For decades, scientists believed that only a handful of bacteria used specialized molecular “circuits” to shuttle […]
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Current Understanding Of Electroautotrophy And Its Relevance In Astrobiology-related Research
Electroautotrophy—the use of extracellular electrons as the primary energy source for autotrophic metabolism—remains understudied compared to photoautotrophy and chemoautotrophy.
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Did Marine Life In The Paleocene Navigate Using Earth’s Magnetic Field?
Some ancient marine organisms produced mysterious magnetic particles of unusually large size, which can now be found as fossils in marine sediments. An international team has succeeded in mapping the […]
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Impact of a High Magnetic Field on the Orientation of Gravitactic Unicellular Organisms
The gravity-dependent behavior of Paramecium biaurelia and Euglena gracilis have previously been studied on ground and in real microgravity.
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Antarctic Offworld Analog: Aurora Australis Over Concordia Station
This dazzling light show appears when charged particles from the Sun are guided by Earth’s magnetic field towards the polar regions, where they collide with gases in the upper atmosphere […]