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Planetary Sciences

Feature 13 August 2020

Rayos Planetarios: Misma Física, Mundos Distantes

Un rayo en el planeta Tierra necesita sólo algunos simples ingredientes para generar una chispa. Esos ingredientes existen en todo el sistema solar y más allá.

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Planetary Sciences

News 14 July 2020

A Month of Milestones for Mars Missions

Mars launch season has arrived, and it brings the first space exploration mission from the Arab world, China’s first Mars landing, and the first powered flight on another planet.

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Planetary Sciences

News 25 June 2020

Machine Learning Can Help Decode Alien Skies—Up to a Point

Astronomers are testing the tools that might help them keep up with the upcoming storm of exoplanet atmosphere data.

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Planetary Sciences

Feature 24 June 2020

Remaking a Planet One Atom at a Time

When is a planet not a planet? Where does helium rain? How can water be solid and liquid at the same time? For answers, scientists put common planetary materials under extreme pressure and watched what happened next.

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Geohealth

News 19 June 2020

Geoscience Commits to Racial Justice. Now We’ve Got Work to Do

To be silent is to be complicit in our own destruction because racism destroys us all. But not being silent entails more than publishing statements. There is also the collective silence of inaction. —No Time for Silence

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Ocean Sciences

News 8 June 2020

Search for MH370 Revealed Ocean Crust Waves

Efforts to recover the missing airplane produced high-resolution bathymetry of the southern Indian Ocean that raises new ideas about how ocean crust forms.

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Planetary Sciences

News 28 May 2020

Venus Exploration Starts in the Lab

Most technology would not last a day on our planet’s evil twin. By creating Venus’s surface and atmospheric conditions here on Earth, a team of engineers is designing spacecraft technology that will last for months.

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Education

News 27 May 2020

Manteniendo el Conocimiento de la Ciencia Indígena Fuera de un Molde Colonial

Un nuevo modelo de trabajo podría ayudar a los científicos a diseñar y facilitar la investigación que cumpla tanto los estándares de ética científica como los culturales, al trabajar con conocimiento indígena acerca del clima y el ambiente.

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Planetary Sciences

News 21 May 2020

New Space Telescope Named for Nancy Roman, Astronomy Pioneer

Nancy Grace Roman’s namesake telescope will search for distant worlds and the earliest galaxies.

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Geohealth

News 24 April 2020

Eight Lessons from COVID-19 to Guide Our Climate Response

The global response to the ongoing pandemic can teach us how we should, and shouldn’t, respond to the climate crisis. And most important, it shows that we can do something.

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