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Watching Io Erupt from Earth
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| Topic: Jupiter System |
10/23/12 |
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Using a combination of Earth-based telescopic surveys and archival data, a team of researchers has gathered nearly 40 snapshots of volcanic eruptions on Jupiter's 'volcanic wonderland' moon, Io. |
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What's Baking on Titan?
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| Topic: Titan |
10/23/12 |
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Radar images of Titan have revealed some curious new features on the mysterious moon. They include a nearly circular feature that resembles a giant hot cross bun and shorelines of ancient seas. |
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Giant Impacts May Explain Unusual Moons of Saturn
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| Topic: Saturn system |
10/22/12 |
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A new hypothesis explains the origin of Saturn's strange middle-sized moons. The moons may have been spawned during giant impacts that occurred when several major satellites merged to form Saturn's large moon, Titan. |
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A New Spin on the Origin of the Earth and Moon
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| Topic: Moon to Mars |
10/21/12 |
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Previous theories have suggested that the Moon formed from a cloud of debris caused by a small planet striking the early Earth. A new theory suggests that the impact may have actually broken off a chunk of the Earth, which later formed our planet's familiar moon. |
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Features on Mars Match Climate Model Predictions
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| Topic: Mars |
10/20/12 |
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Modeling methods that were used to predict climate change on Earth have now been found to be accurate on Mars as well. The results show how useful and accurate climate models can be - not just for planets like Mars, but for the Earth as well. |
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Predicting Space Radiation
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| Topic: Sun |
10/20/12 |
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Astrophysicists have created the first online system for predicting and forecasting radiation in near-Earth, lunar, and martian space environments. The tool could be useful in predicting potential hazards for future missions to these locations. |
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New Horizons May Enter a Firing Range at Pluto
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| Topic: Outer Solar System |
10/19/12 |
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As New Horizons travels toward Pluto, the science team has become increasingly aware that dangerous debris might be orbiting in the Pluto system. The spacecraft will have to navigate safely through the material in order to make its scientific observations of Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. |
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SuperEarth Found Nearby
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| Topic: New Planets |
10/19/12 |
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Astronomers have discovered a planet with about the same mass as the Earth. The planet orbits a star in our closest neighboring system - Alpha Centauri. |
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A Crowded Planetary System
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| Topic: Cosmic Evolution |
10/18/12 |
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An extraordinarily crowded planetary system is providing critical clues for understanding why most known planetary systems appear different from our own solar system. |
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