ESA’s next mission to Venus was officially ‘adopted’ today by the Agency’s Science Programme Committee. EnVision will study Venus from its inner core to its outer atmosphere, giving important new […]
Hot rocky super-Earths are thought to be sufficiently irradiated by their host star to melt their surface and thus allow for long-lasting magma oceans.
Craters are probes of planetary surface and interior properties. Here we measure depths, widths, and spacing of circumferential ring-graben surrounding the two largest multiring impact structures on Europa, Tyre and […]
A team of researchers at the University of Oklahoma will explore the Permian sediment of Oklahoma’s Anadarko Basin, which contains dust deposits from Earth’s deep-time past. The Anadarko Basin includes […]
NASA astronaut candidate Jessica Wittner (NASA), astronauts Thomas Pesquet (ESA) and Takuya Onishi (JAXA) documenting the collection of geological samples during a field traverse of the ESA PANGAEA course.
ESA PANGAEA 2022-2023 course trainees investigate the mineral content in a rock outcrop, using the spectrometer associated with the Electronic FieldBook.
While NASA astronaut Stephanie Wilson has created a small trench to analyze with a portable spectrometer some levels of now-buried rock deposits, ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst looks for more clues […]
The plate tectonics theory established in the 20th century has been successful in interpreting many geological phenomena, processes and events that have occurred in the Phanerozoic. However, the theory has […]
Editor’s note: We’re now able to detect planets orbiting other stars. We can determine the size and basic composition of these worlds but only in a general sense. As newer […]
Many locations on Mars have sulfates, which are sedimentary rocks formed in water. Within Valles Marineris, the large canyon system that cuts across the planet, there are big and thick […]
