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Los Alamos Computers Probe How Giant Planets Formed
July 21, 2004 — A scientist at the University of California's Los Alamos National Laboratory has created exhaustive computer models based on experiments in which the element hydrogen was shocked to pressures ... > full story -
Los Alamos Computers Probe How Giant Planets Formed
July 14, 2004 — Nearly five billion years ago, the giant gaseous planets Jupiter and Saturn formed, apparently in radically different ways. So says a scientist at the Laboratory who created exhaustive computer ... > full story -
Scientists Find That Saturn's Rotation Is A Puzzle
June 29, 2004 — On approach to Saturn, data obtained by the Cassini spacecraft are already posing a puzzling question: How long is the day on ... > full story -
Link Discovered Between Earth's Ocean Currents And Jupiter's Bands
June 22, 2004 — Scientists have discovered a striking similarity between certain ocean currents on Earth and the bands that characterize the surface of large, gaseous planets like ... > full story -
Hottest Body Outside The Sun: Researchers Show Jupiter's Moon Io Vaporizing Rock Gases Into Atmosphere
June 16, 2004 — The hottest spot in the solar system is neither Mercury, Venus, nor St. Louis in the summer,. Io, one of the four satellites that the Italian astronomer Galileo discovered orbiting Jupiter almost 400 ... > full story -
NASA Plans For Proposed Jupiter Mission
May 27, 2004 — The Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter is a spacecraft with an ambitious proposed mission that would orbit three planet-sized moons of Jupiter -- Callisto, Ganymede and Europa -- that may harbor vast oceans ... > full story -
Researcher Predicts Global Climate Change On Jupiter As Planet's Spots Disappear
April 21, 2004 — If a University of California, Berkeley, physicist's vision of Jupiter is correct, the giant planet will be in for a major global temperature shift over the next decade as most of its large ... > full story -
'Fab Five' Make Rare Appearance In Night Sky
March 22, 2004 — Like a busy urban family, planets rarely get together all at once. Later this month, however, the five so-called naked-eye planets - Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn - will reunite in the ... > full story -
From Jupiter's Moon, Io, Come Ideas About What Earth May Have Looked Like As A Newborn Planet
March 22, 2004 — Investigations into lava lakes on the surface of Io, the intensely volcanic moon that orbits Jupiter, may provide clues to what Earth looked like in its earliest phases, according to researchers at ... > full story -
NASA Rovers Watching Solar Eclipses By Mars Moons
March 9, 2004 — Though the Viking landers in the 1970s observed the shadow of one of Mars' two moons, Phobos, moving across the landscape, and Mars Pathfinder in 1997 observed Phobos emerge at night from the ... > full story
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