Flexible definitions of the word “climate” may impede policy discussions on climate change. Closing apparent gaps between “climate” and “weather” may help reduce the ambiguity.Read More »
Since the 1970s, no surface platform had made meteorological measurements of a global dust storm on Mars, but last summer NASA's Curiosity rover witnessed one of these rare events.Read More »Planetary Sciences
Three billion years ago, on Mars, the shores of an ocean may have been flooded by a mega-tsunami. Now the crater left by the bolide impact that probably triggered the tsunami has been identified.Read More »Planetary Sciences
The online community of the Milky Way Project citizen scientists helped scientists identify compact star-forming regions now known as yellowballs.Read More »Planetary Sciences
A new study ties layers in the polar deposits of Mars to changes in climate driven by orbital variations, constraining accumulation rates and further deciphering the climate history of the Red Planet.Read More »
