Sarah Stanley, Author at Eos

A map of North America shows pixels of red and blue, which represent temperature anomalies, measured in kelvins.

Research Spotlights

Solar Storms Can Affect Earth’s Weather. A New Study Examines How.

by Sarah Stanley 23 June 202623 June 2026

New findings could help narrow down the mechanisms by which solar activity influences our weather.

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Research Spotlights

The Speedy Particles That Could Help Us Learn More About Uranus

by Sarah Stanley 18 June 202618 June 2026

New simulations suggest that a spacecraft-mounted detector of energetic neutral atoms could improve our understanding of the ice giant’s environment, as well as the relationship between the planet, its magnetosphere, and the heliosphere.

This image shows a rocket launching into a blue sky from its launchpad. A bright white and orange tail is emitted from the bottom of the rocket, transitioning into cloudlike billows of gas closer to the ground. A body of still water is in the midground, and grasses and shrubs are in the foreground.

Research Spotlights

Rocket Launches and Reentries Harm Earth’s Ozone Layer

by Sarah Stanley 8 June 20268 June 2026

Solid-state fuels—recently used to help launch astronauts to the Moon for the first time in decades—appear to be the fuel type with the most detrimental effects on the ozone.

A large, round, glowing yellow shape is shown at right (the Sun), and a smaller, reddish-brown sphere is at left (Mars). Pale yellow streaks and thicker curving white lines radiate from the Sun in all directions. Mars appears to disrupt the flow of the pale yellow streaks, which deflect around it like water flowing around a pebble in a stream.

Research Spotlights

What Makes Mars’s Magnetotail Flap?

by Sarah Stanley 20 April 20261 May 2026

Spacecraft reveal a key driver of up-and-down motions of thin, current-carrying plasma sheets on the nightside of Mars.

Four small docks overlook a waterfront. In the distance, wooden structures, shellfish farms, are visible in the water. The sky is pale.

Research Spotlights

Mediterranean Mussel Farming Could Collapse by 2050

by Sarah Stanley 17 April 20261 May 2026

New experiments suggest that ocean warming and acidification are on track to slash both oyster and mussel farming yields.

A swirling, bright blue shape with soft edges appears against a background of dark blue in this bird’s-eye view of the ocean off the coast of France.

Research Spotlights

Global Observations Reveal Rapid Reorganization of Ocean Nutrients

by Sarah Stanley 12 March 202612 March 2026

Data reveal that changes in nutrient levels vary depending on depth and distance from shore—and that these changes are happening more quickly than scientists realized.

A wave crashes onto a dark, rocky shore. Green rolling hills are in the distance.

Research Spotlights

Our Ocean’s “Natural Antacids” Act Faster Than We Thought

by Sarah Stanley 30 January 202630 January 2026

New evidence from New Zealand suggests that calcium carbonate dissolution occurs not just over millennial timescales, but over annual and decadal ones too.