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Illustration of a blue planet with a network of data connections and computer code in its atmosphere
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Machine Learning Can Help Decode Alien Skies—Up to a Point

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 25 June 202026 June 2020

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

Blue planet orbits a red star
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Water Found in Small, Habitable Zone Planet’s Atmosphere

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 11 September 201911 September 2019

K2-18b is warm, has an atmosphere, and has water vapor. But it’s no Earth 2.0.

Artwork by Anastasia Grigoryeva depicting solar wind as it affects the Martian atmosphere
Posted inResearch Spotlights

How Mars Lost Steam

by E. Underwood 11 April 2019

Solar winds are not the main culprit in stripping the planet’s atmosphere, a new study suggests.

Laboratory experiment used to simulate the shock wave made by an asteroid impact on Mars
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Rover and Lasers Unlock Clues to Early Martian Atmosphere

by Aaron Sidder 3 April 2019

Sediments from the Curiosity rover and experiments using tanks of gas and laser beams helped reveal how water continued to flow on Mars after the planet lost its atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Mars Express north polar plains
Posted inScience Updates

Updates on Understanding Mars’s Recent and Present-Day Climate

by Serina Diniega, I. Smith and A. Bramson 23 January 2019

Mars Workshop on Amazonian and Present-day Climate; Lakewood, Colorado, 18–22 June 2018

Venus’s clouds as seen by Mariner 10 in 1974
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Could Life Be Floating in Venus’s Clouds?

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 7 November 201816 November 2021

If present, microbes could explain evolving patterns in the planet’s atmosphere when observed in ultraviolet light.

Trailing hemisphere of Europa
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How Hot Is Europa? Now There’s a Map for That

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 5 September 20185 September 2018

The new global map of Europa’s surface heat also highlighted one spot on the moon that is inexplicably cold.

Clouds from a dust storm in Mars's atmosphere..
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Mars's Atmosphere Matches Earth's Turbulent Nature

by Mark Zastrow 9 November 2016

Mars is even more like Earth than we thought, according to a statistical analysis of the planet's swirling atmosphere.

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What Caused the Sudden Heating of Uranus's Atmosphere?

by JoAnna Wendel 13 January 20167 September 2016

A recently observed temperature reversal on Uranus may offer a clue to a long-standing mystery: Why are the upper atmospheres of gas giants so hot?

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Atmospheres Can Collapse on the Dark Sides of Planets

by C. Sullivan 29 December 201529 December 2015

Planets that orbit close to their stars might lose their atmospheres along with any chance of life, but new models show a way in which these planets may retain their atmospheres and habitability.

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