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Astronaut Away Team Training At Tinguaton

After receiving feedback from the science backroom, astronauts Takuya Onishi (JAXA), Thomas Pesquet (ESA) and Jessica Wittner (NASA) proceeded to sample small quantities of pyroclasts.

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Contribution Of PRIDE VLBI Products To The Joint JUICE-Europa Clipper Moons’ Ephemerides Solution

In the coming decade, JUICE and Europa Clipper radio-science will yield the most accurate estimation to date of the Galilean moons’ physical parameters and ephemerides. JUICE’s PRIDE (Planetary Radio Interferometry […]

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Webb Maps Weather On Hot Gas-giant Exoplanet WASP-43b

An international team of researchers has successfully used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to map the weather on the hot gas-giant exoplanet WASP-43 b.

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A Cometary Landcape Covered With Organic Chemicals

Editor’s note: according to “Organic compounds on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko revealed by COSAC mass spectrometry” – “Comets harbor the most pristine material in our solar system in the form of ice, […]

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Tricorder Tech: Astronaut Kate Rubins Uses ESA’s Electronic FieldBook Microscope

NASA Astronaut Kate Rubins as she produces science documentation using of the Electronic FieldBook (EFB) and associated science instruments.

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Data Availability And Requirements Relevant For The Ariel Space Mission And Other Exoplanet Atmosphere Applications

The goal of this white paper is to provide a snapshot of the data availability and data needs primarily for the Ariel space mission, but also for related atmospheric studies […]

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