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JoAnna Wendel

JoAnna Wendel is a freelance science writer and cartoonist. She covers topics ranging from the geology of faraway moons to the behavior of animals in our oceans. She served as a staff writer for Eos from 2014 to 2018, then worked in communications in NASA’s Planetary Sciences Division. JoAnna is now freelancing full time as a writer and artist.

Carpentaria湾上方的GRACE-FO卫星
Posted inResearch Spotlights

卫星激光揭示地球水运动的变化

by JoAnna Wendel 27 April 202227 April 2022

GRACE-FO卫星上基于激光的仪器可以扩展到其他地球物理应用,用来收集地球系统中月内时间尺度上的质量变化的数据。

The Gulf of Carpentaria in northern Australia
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Satellites’ Lasers Reveal Changes in Earth’s Water Movement

by JoAnna Wendel 22 March 202227 April 2022

The laser-based instruments aboard the GRACE-FO satellites may be extended to other geophysical applications to collect data on other submonthly mass changes in Earth’s system.

An image of a nodal seismometer
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Potential of Leaking Modes to Reveal Underground Structure

by JoAnna Wendel 7 March 20227 March 2022

Instead of waiting for earthquake waves to tell scientists about the structure of Earth’s interior, scientists can now use ambient noise from humans to “see” underground.

Clouds near the Azores
Posted inResearch Spotlights

How Do Marine Gases Affect Cloud Formation?

by JoAnna Wendel 25 February 202225 February 2022

By using novel aircraft measurements over the eastern North Atlantic Ocean, researchers shed light on the relationship between common marine biogenic gases and the microphysical properties of clouds.

A selfie of NASA’s Curiosity rover, in the northwestern part of Gale crater
Posted inResearch Spotlights

科学家倒转时间追踪火星上的甲烷排放

by JoAnna Wendel 24 February 202224 February 2022

火星上甲烷的峰值可能来自盖尔陨石坑内部,NASA的“好奇号”探测器目前正在那里进行探测。

Sputnik Planitia, which features nitrogen ice plains on Pluto
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Clues to Pluto’s History Lie in Its Faults

by JoAnna Wendel 31 January 20221 February 2022

Studying geological features on Pluto’s surface can illuminate the ancient history of how the dwarf planet formed.

A selfie of NASA’s Curiosity rover, in the northwestern part of Gale crater
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Scientists Turn Back Time to Track Methane Emissions on Mars

by JoAnna Wendel 14 January 20223 January 2023

Period spikes of methane on Mars could originate inside Gale crater, where NASA’s Curiosity rover is currently exploring.s

An image of lake-floor sedimentary deposits from Mars’s Gale crater
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Machine Learning Algorithms Help Scientists Explore Mars

by JoAnna Wendel 12 January 20223 January 2023

Researchers applied machine learning algorithms to several distinct chemical compositions of Mars and suggest that these algorithms could be a powerful tool to map the planet’s surface on a large scale.

Una ilustración de un artista de Titán como su fuera una portada de libro.
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El universo de Dune inspira la nomenclatura de Titán

by JoAnna Wendel 27 July 202126 January 2022

En todo el sistema solar, la ciencia choca con la ciencia ficción en formas literarias.

Una representación artística de Europa Clipper volando a través de las plumas de Europa, estudiando la luna y buscando vida.
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Esta búsqueda por vida alienígena comienza con la destrucción de bacterias en la Tierra

by JoAnna Wendel 14 April 202129 September 2021

Algún día, un catálogo de fragmentos moleculares podría ayudar a científicos a identificar vida extraterrestre en las lunas heladas de nuestro sistema solar.

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