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Weather on the Outer Planets Only Goes So Deep
What is the long-range
weather forecast for the
giant planets Uranus and
Neptune? These planets are
home to extreme winds
blowing at speeds of over
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NASA's Spitzer Puts Planets in a Petri Dish
Our galaxy is teeming with a
wild variety of planets. In
addition to our solar
system's eight near-and-dear
planets, there are more than
800 so-called exoplanets
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TRAPPIST Participated in the Detection of Ten Percent of All Transiting Exoplanets Known to Date
Among the many planets
detected orbiting other
stars (exoplanets) over the
last twenty years, a little
less than three hundred
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Jupiter's Atmosphere Still Contains Water Supplied by the Shoemaker-Levy 9 Comet Impact
Researchers are reporting
Herschel observations of
water in Jupiter's
stratosphere. It is a clear
remnant of the
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Where Are the Best Windows Into Europa's Interior?
April 15, 2013 — The surface of Jupiter's moon Europa exposes material churned up from inside the moon and also material resulting from matter and energy coming from above. If you want to learn about the deep ... > full story -
Mapping the Chemistry Needed for Life at Jupiter's Moon Europa
April 5, 2013 — A new paper led by a NASA researcher shows that hydrogen peroxide is abundant across much of the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. The authors argue that if the peroxide on the surface of Europa ... > full story -
Scientists to Jupiter's Moon Io: Your Volcanoes Are in the Wrong Place
April 4, 2013 — Jupiter's moon Io is the most volcanically active world in the Solar System, with hundreds of volcanoes, some erupting lava fountains up to 250 miles high. However, concentrations of volcanic ... > full story -
'Hot Spots' Ride a Merry-Go-Round on Jupiter
March 14, 2013 — In the swirling canopy of Jupiter's atmosphere, cloudless patches are so exceptional that the big ones get the special name "hot spots." Exactly how these clearings form and why they're only found ... > full story -
Modeling Jupiter and Saturn's Possible Origins
March 5, 2013 — New theoretical modeling provides clues to how the gas giant planets in our solar system -- Jupiter and Saturn -- might have formed and ... > full story -
Jupiter's Icy Moon: Window Into Europa's Ocean Lies Right at the Surface
March 5, 2013 — If you could lick the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa, you would actually be sampling a bit of the ocean beneath, according to astronomers. Astronomers have found the strongest evidence yet that ... > full story -
NASA and JPL Contribute to European Jupiter Mission
February 21, 2013 — NASA has selected key contributions to a 2022 European Space Agency (ESA) mission that will study Jupiter and three of its largest moons in unprecedented detail. The moons are thought to harbor vast ... > full story -
NASA's Cassini Watches Saturn Storm Choke on Its Own Tail
January 31, 2013 — Call it a Saturnian version of the Ouroboros, the mythical serpent that bites its own tail. In a new paper that provides the most detail yet about the life and death of a monstrous ... > full story -
New Evidence Indicates Auroras Occur Outside Our Solar System
January 21, 2013 — Planetary scientists have found new evidence suggesting auroras – similar to Earth’s Aurora Borealis - occur on bodies outside our solar ... > full story -
Saline Hiding Places for Bacteria in Río Tinto Could Be Like Those on Mars
January 11, 2013 — Researchers have identified microorganisms that live inside salt deposits in the acidic and ferrous environment of the Tinto River in Huelva, Spain. The extreme conditions of these microniches appear ... > full story
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