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Planetary Sciences

News 4 January 2019

Lander Gives First Look at Moon’s Farside

The mission aims to explore this relatively unstudied hemisphere and learn about its age, composition, and geologic history.

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Planetary Sciences

News 4 January 2019

New Horizons Sends First Looks of 2014 MU69

Explore 10 things scientists have already learned about the most distant object visited by a spacecraft from Earth.

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Geology & Geophysics

GeoFIZZ 28 December 2018

Captivating Geoscience Videos of 2018

As the year comes to a close, look back on interesting Earth and planetary science phenomena captured on camera.

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Education

GeoFIZZ 21 December 2018

Geoscience Games to Liven Up Your Holiday Season

Learn geoscience and have fun while doing it. For 1+ players. Good for all ages.

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Planetary Sciences

News 21 December 2018

Exoplanet Strategy Promotes Big Missions, Individual Science

Collaborative and interdisciplinary research will be key to realizing the missions’ full potential, according to the exoplanet strategy report.

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Education

News 19 December 2018

Coral Reef Video Game Will Help Create Global Database

Players dive off a research boat, identify and classify coral reefs using satellite and drone images, and bring marine life back to reefs. In doing so, they help scientists teach a machine to learn.

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Planetary Sciences

News 14 December 2018

Uranus and Neptune Should Be Top Priority, Says Report

Voyager 2 visited the ice giants in the 1980s, the only craft ever to do so. Planetary scientists argue that new missions to each planet would also benefit heliophysics and exoplanet research.

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Biogeosciences

News 11 December 2018

Extinct Megatoothed Shark May Have Been Warm-Blooded

Preliminary results from a recent study may begin to shed light on why megalodons died out before the most recent ice age.

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Education

News 10 December 2018

Outreach Events Engage Queer and Transgender Youth in STEM

Run by queer and transgender scientists, a new program aims to help high school students of similar identities see a future for themselves in science.

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Planetary Sciences

News 4 December 2018

Hello, Goodbye: First Interplanetary CubeSats Zip Past Mars

The InSight lander safely arrived on Mars early last week. Two tiny spacecraft made up part of its communications array and transmitted landing data back to Earth.

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