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The Okeanos Explorer carries out scientific research of the ocean for NOAA.
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Advisory Panel Calls for Large Increase for Ocean Exploration

by Randy Showstack 20 May 201618 October 2022

The recently established Ocean Exploration Advisory Board also urged the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to increase its role in federal coordination of exploration.

Artist's rendering of NASA's MAVEN spacecraft, which observes interactions between the solar wind and the upper atmosphere of Mars.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Mysterious Heavy Ion Beams Above Mars Explained

by Mark Zastrow 20 May 20164 May 2022

NASA's latest mission to Mars has uncovered the origins of fast-moving streams of particles high above the planet, flowing against the solar wind.

Thermal image showing elevated ice-rich lobes likely deposited by the second of two tsunamis suspected to have inundated Martian shorelines billions of years ago.
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Tsunamis Splashed Ancient Mars

Shannon Hall by S. Hall 19 May 201628 January 2022

Massive meteorites likely slammed into a Martian ocean billions of years ago, unleashing tsunami waves up to 120 meters tall, a close study of a region of the Red Planet's terrain has found.

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Four Perspectives on Order From Chaos

by R. Pincus 19 May 201625 February 2022

What makes thunderstorms clump, even to the point of singularity, over uniform oceans? Three recent papers in JAMES address this question, and a new Commentary ties them together.

An artist’s representation of comet C/2014 S3, which contains material from the early inner solar system
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Comet with Stunted Tail Hints at How Solar System Formed

JoAnna Wendel, freelance science writer and illustrator by JoAnna Wendel 18 May 201617 November 2021

Finding out whether just a few or many of this newfound type of rocky object roam deep space should help scientists sort among contrasting scenarios of the solar system's infancy.

Entrance to the 21st Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) site at Le Bourget, France.
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Nations’ Pledges to Reduce Emissions and the 2°C Objective

by O. Boucher, H. Benveniste and C. Guivarch 17 May 201623 February 2023

Preparatory workshop for the 21st Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; Paris, France, 3 November 2015

A branching bolt of lightning strikes Moscow.
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Scientists Find Dead Lightning Branches That Come Back to Life

by M. Gannon 17 May 201613 April 2023

The detached bursts of brilliance might explain why the lowest point of a lightning bolt will sometimes suddenly brighten by up to 50% and double its speed as it hurtles to Earth.

The solar system’s new habitable zone after our Sun becomes a red giant.
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Aging Stars Make New Habitable Zones

JoAnna Wendel, freelance science writer and illustrator by JoAnna Wendel 16 May 201629 September 2021

Scientists searching for life in the universe now have a new target: the once-icy worlds orbiting red giants.

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Robert L. "Bob" Carovillano (1932–2015)

by R. Eather, J. Maguire and R. Carovillano 16 May 201631 January 2022

As a theoretical physicist, he contributed strongly to magnetospheric and space physics since the 1960s, both in research and as a program leader at Boston College and NASA.

The active crater of Vulcano viewed from Lipari, in Italy’s Aeolian islands
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Understanding Volcanic Eruptions Where Plates Meet

by R. Azzaro and R. De Rosa 16 May 201627 October 2021

A new project elucidates the relationships between tectonics and volcanic systems and how they influence hazards on Italy's Mount Etna and Vulcano and Lipari islands.

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