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An artist’s rendering of Titan as a Dune-like book cover

GeoFIZZ 19 October 2020

Dune Universe Inspires Titan’s Nomenclature

Across the solar system, science collides with science fiction in literary ways.
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Planetary Sciences
Venus's clouds as seen by Mariner 10 in 1974

News 14 October 2020

¿Podría la Vida Estar Flotando en las Nubes de Venus?

Si están presentes, los microbios podrían explicar patrones de evolución en la atmósfera planetaria de Venus, al observarse con luz ultravioleta.
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Atmospheric Sciences
Image of part of Mars showing the planet’s atmosphere on the horizon

Research Spotlight 13 October 2020

Capturing Heat-Driven Atmospheric Tides on Mars

Spacecraft observations and model simulations provide new insights into tidal patterns that transport momentum and energy into the planet’s upper atmosphere.
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Planetary Sciences
Image of Pluto from NASA’s New Horizons flyby in July 2015

News 12 October 2020

Final Frontier? The Evolution of Planetary Science Missions

Planetary scientist Fran Bagenal explains how each NASA mission builds on previous discoveries and encourages scientists to take on difficult challenges to learn more about our home in the universe.
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Planetary Sciences
Hydration (in blue) on the lunar surface as observed from the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility overlain on an image of the Moon

Research Spotlight 29 September 2020

A Clearer Look at Lunar Surface Hydration

Independent ground-based observations of the Moon confirm prior spacecraft observations that hydration at the lunar surface varies with temperature.
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Natural Hazards

Editors' Highlights 18 September 2020

Ensemble Modeling of Coronal Mass Ejection Arrival at 1 AU

Heliospheric imaging data can be used in ensemble modeling of CME arrival time at Earth to improve space weather forecasts, treating the solar wind as a 1-D incompressible hydrodynamic flow.
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Planetary Sciences
Image showing particles being ejected from the asteroid Bennu on 6 January 2019

Editors' Vox 9 September 2020

Up Close with an Active Asteroid

A new journal special collection investigates the ejection of particles from the asteroid Bennu and the implications of these observations for asteroid science.
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Atmospheric Sciences
Chart showing concurrent detection of streamer corona discharges from space and the ground

Editors' Highlights 2 September 2020

Streamer Corona Discharges in Thunderstorms Detected from Space

Concurrent detection from space and the ground of blue optical flashes from streamer corona discharges at altitudes between 8.5 and 14 kilometers and radio waves.
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Atmospheric Sciences
Plot showing the monthly averaged column abundances of Nickel as a function of season and month, simulated by the WACCM-Ni model

Editors' Highlights 31 August 2020

First Model of Meteoric Nickel in the Upper Atmosphere

A layer of nickel of cosmic origin, which exists between 80 and 110 km high in Earth’s atmosphere, has been modeled for the first time, including dynamics and complex neutral and ion chemistry.
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Planetary Sciences
A satellite image of the Philippines’ Lingayen Gulf showing the aftermath of super typhoon Mangkhut in 2018

AGU News 25 August 2020

Bringing Satellite Observations Down to Earth

This month’s issue of Eos shows how scientists can sometimes get a better look at something by stepping far—much, much farther—away.
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