Searching for critical minerals in ancient ocean floors
Studying ancient ocean floors could help discover minerals needed to produce electric cars and solar panels.
Earth Sciences
Jun 3, 2022
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News tagged with solar wind
Solar wind a major driver of atmospheric sodium at Mercury
No object in the solar system experiences the sun's solar wind more powerfully than Mercury. The planet's magnetic field deflects the sun's stream of electrically charged particles at a distance of only 1,000 kilometers from ...
Planetary Sciences
May 27, 2022
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Swarm satellites unveil magnetic waves that sweep the outermost part of Earth's outer core
While volcanic eruptions and earthquakes serve as immediate reminders that Earth's insides are anything but tranquil, there are also other, more elusive, dynamic processes happening deep down below the Earth. Using information ...
Planetary Sciences
May 24, 2022
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What's it like to be on Venus or Pluto? We studied their sand dunes and found some clues
What is it like to be on the surface of Mars or Venus? Or even further afield, such as on Pluto, or Saturn's moon Titan?
Astronomy
May 20, 2022
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The sun as you've never seen it before
Powerful flares, breathtaking views across the solar poles, and a curious solar "hedgehog" are among the haul of spectacular images, movies and data returned by Solar Orbiter from its first close approach to the sun. Although ...
Astronomy
May 19, 2022
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Physicists explain how type of aurora on Mars is formed
Physicists led by the University of Iowa have learned how a type of aurora on Mars is formed.
Planetary Sciences
May 18, 2022
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Scientists grow plants in lunar dirt, next stop moon
For the first time, scientists have grown plants in soil from the moon collected by NASA's Apollo astronauts.
Space Exploration
May 14, 2022
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Amazing achievements from the Parker Solar Probe
In 2018, NASA launched the Parker Solar Probe on an unprecedented mission to study the sun up close. The mission was defined with three key scientific goals:
Astronomy
May 3, 2022
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Earth's atmosphere may be source of some lunar water
Hydrogen and oxygen ions escaping from Earth's upper atmosphere and combining on the moon could be one of the sources of the known lunar water and ice, according to new research by University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical ...
Planetary Sciences
Apr 28, 2022
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Modeling Earth's magnetosphere in the laboratory
A magnetosphere forms around any magnetized object, such as a planet, that is immersed within a stream of ionized gas, called plasma. Because Earth possesses an intrinsic magnetic field, the planet is surrounded by a large ...
Planetary Sciences
Apr 12, 2022
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