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What lies beneath: Venus’ surface revealed through the clouds
Using observations from ESA’s Venus Express satellite, scientists have shown for the first time how weather patterns seen in Venus’ thick cloud layers are directly linked to the topography of the surface below. Rather than acting as a barrier to our observations, Venus’ clouds may offer insight into what lies beneath.
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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Likely a Massive Heat Source
New NASA-funded research suggests that Jupiter’s Great Red Spot may be the mysterious heat source behind Jupiter’s surprisingly high upper atmospheric temperatures. By Tricia Talbert.
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Hellish Venus Might Have Been Habitable for Billions of Years
A team of astronomers think the torrid and toxic world was once a cozy home for potential life. By Shannon Hall.
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Earth's carbon points to planetary smashup
Research by Rice University Earth scientists suggests that virtually all of Earth's life-giving carbon could have come from a collision about 4.4 billion years ago between Earth and an embryonic planet similar to Mercury.
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Are planets setting the sun’s pace?
HZDR researchers suggest a link between the solar cycle and the tidal effects of Venus, the Earth and Jupiter. (Oct. 4, 2016)
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The Seven Wonders of the Solar System
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Losses of soil carbon under global warming might equal US emissions
For decades scientists have speculated that rising global temperatures might alter the ability of soils to store carbon, potentially releasing huge amounts of carbon into the atmosphere and triggering runaway climate change. Yet thousands of studies worldwide have produced mixed signals on whether this storage capacity will actually decrease—or even increase—as the planet warms.
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Moon’s lava tubes could be colossal
Lava tubes inside the moon could remain structurally sound up to 5 kilometers across and offer prime real estate for lunar colonists. By Thomas Sumner.
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Molten iron river discovered speeding beneath Russia and Canada
The magma stream should help geophysicists predict more accurately if and when the magnetic field of the planet’s core will flip, and the magnetic north and south poles trade places, which happens every few thousand years. By Andy Coghlan.
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Make Mars Great Again
Mars is currently inhabited by an estimated 1 million microbes. They coat the surfaces and crowd the innards of our robotic landers… How to terraform a room-temperature Mars in 100 years. By Christopher P. McKay.
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Why Most Planets Will Either Be Lush or Dead
The Gaia hypothesis implies that once alien life takes hold, it will flourish. By David Grinspoon.
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Giant Mystery Wave Spotted in Atmosphere of Venus
Researchers have spotted a strange, stationary wave suspended in Venus’ atmosphere. By Elizabeth Howell.
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Planet Earth makes its own water from scratch deep in the mantle
Computer simulation confirms that water can form within our planet rather than arriving from space, and the process may explain mysterious deep quakes. By Andy Coghlan.
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Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is rising at the fastest rate ever recorded
For two straight years — 2015 and 2016 — atmospheric carbon dioxide has climbed by more than 3 parts per million. By Chelsea Harvey.
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Mysterious ‘Magic Islands’ on Saturn’s Titan Moon May Have Just Been Explained
Scientists had a few possible explanations for transient features spotted on Saturn’s largest moon, but a new study points to a theory that may prove to be the most likely reason: Titan’s seas are bubbling with nitrogen. By Nancy Atkinson.
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It’s Time to Take the Gaia Hypothesis Seriously
“Perhaps life is something that happens not on a planet but to a planet: It is something that a planet becomes.” By David Grinspoon
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Pluto Has Been Officially Reclassified As A Planet!
Today is a historic day—one that will bring joy to the hundreds of millions of Pluto lovers around the globe. The International Astronomical Union (IAU), the body that is responsible for naming and classifying objects in the cosmos, has just announced that Pluto has been reclassified as a major planet.
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Atmosphere found around Earth-like planet GJ 1132b
Scientists say they have detected an atmosphere around an Earth-like planet for the first time. They have studied a world known as GJ 1132b, which is 1.4-times the size of our planet and lies 39 light years away. Their observations suggest that the "super-Earth" is cloaked in a thick layer of gasses that are either water or methane or a mixture of both. The study is published in the Astronomical Journal. Discovering an atmosphere, and characterising it, is an important step forward in the hunt for life beyond our Solar System.
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Possible venus twin discovered around dim star
With the help of NASA’s Kepler space telescope scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology discovered a planet that seems the twin of the Venus. The newly found planet is named after the star where it orbits i.e. GJ 1132b. This new discovery considered the most important planet ever found outside the solar system.
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