This image was requested in the very first month of MRO’s Primary Science Phase, November 2006. Due to many competing targets in the Valles Marineris canyon system, it took until […]
Mapping, Geodesy, Cartography, Bathymetry
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What A Martian Ice Age Left Behind
Earth isn’t the only planet to go through ice ages. A handful have hit our home planet in the last 2.5 billion years, with the most recent – which peaked […]
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Seasonal and Diurnal Variability of Atmospheric Pressure in Jezero Crater, Mars, from MEDA Measurements on the Perseverance Rover
We present an analysis of atmospheric pressure variability inside Jezero Crater on Mars based on measurements from the MEDA meteorological station aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover.
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Evidence Of Ancient Underground Water Reveals Mars May Have Stayed Habitable Longer Than Believed
Scientists from New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) have uncovered new evidence that water once flowed beneath the surface of Mars, revealing that the planet may have remained habitable for […]
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AI World Model To Simulate The Earth System
Climate change is already reshaping global weather patterns and ecosystems around the world. In the long-term, its consequences could range from further substantial increases in the number of extreme weather […]
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Kerogen Detection in Neoarchean and Eocene Microbialites via Deep UV Raman and Fluorescence Spectroscopy Using a SHERLOC Analog Instrument
To date, the Mars 2020 mission’s deep-UV Raman and fluorescence instrument (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals [SHERLOC]) has reported potential Raman detections of macromolecular […]
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Enceladus May Host A Stable Ocean Fit For Life, New Study Finds
A new study led by researchers from Oxford University and Southwest Research Institute and the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona has provided the first evidence of significant heat flow […]
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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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Tidally Driven Inertial Waves Enhance Eccentricity Damping And Spin Evolution In Planets And Stars
Tidal interactions influence the orbital motions of binary star systems and extrasolar planets alike.
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Ice Planet Research: Antarctic Glacier Retreated Faster Than Any Other In Modern Earth History
A glacier on Antarctica’s Eastern Peninsula experienced the fastest retreat recorded in modern history—in just two months, nearly 50 percent of the glacier disintegrated.