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Image of part of Mars showing the planet’s atmosphere on the horizon
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Capturing Heat-Driven Atmospheric Tides on Mars

Sarah Stanley, Science Writer by Sarah Stanley 13 October 202023 September 2022

Spacecraft observations and model simulations provide new insights into tidal patterns that transport momentum and energy into the planet’s upper atmosphere.

Two diamonds in the shape of a diamond anvil cell
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A Dive into the Deep Earth

Heather Goss, AGU Publisher by Heather Goss 24 June 202030 November 2022

In July, Eos looks at the incredible capabilities scientists have developed to recreate the enormous pressures and temperatures that exist far below the planet’s surface.

A green laser beam streams between two parts of a cylindrical instrument.
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Earth’s Core Is in the Hot Seat

Jenessa Duncombe, Staff Writer by Jenessa Duncombe 24 June 202019 August 2022

How old is Earth’s inner core? High-pressure and high-temperature experiments suggest that our planet’s inner furnace may be much younger than expected.

Oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster floats in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010.
Posted inFeatures

Modeling Under Pressure

Mark Betancourt, Freelance Journalist by Mark Betancourt 25 March 202019 August 2022

At a critical moment in the effort to end one of the world’s worst oil spills, one scientist holed up in his office and pulled an all-nighter to calculate the well’s aquifer support.

Satellite image of the Strait of Juan de Fuca
Posted inNews

Fluid Pressure Changes Grease Cascadia’s Slow Aseismic Earthquakes

Mary Caperton Morton, Science Writer by Mary Caperton Morton 18 February 202019 August 2022

Twenty-five years’ worth of data allows scientists to suss out subtle signals deep in subduction zones.

Two young women take notes next to freshly upturned soil and a sediment drill.
Posted inNews

Fugitive Gas Abetted by Barometric Pressure

Sarah Derouin, Science Writer by Sarah Derouin 19 November 201919 August 2022

Barometric pressure, in addition to factors such as lithology and the depth of the water table, can influence patterns of natural gas that escapes to subsurface soils.

Posted inEditors' Highlights

New Definition of Potential Spicity by the Least Square Method

by Lei Zhou 19 November 201816 February 2023

A thermodynamic function of the potential spicity is defined and it is orthogonal to the potential density in the least square sense.

Ocean water, seen from below the surface, with sunlight beams streaming through.
Posted inEditors' Vox

Potential Spicity: From Abstract Theory to Practical Application

by Lei Zhou 16 November 201816 February 2023

A method for estimating potential spicity, a thermodynamic variable in oceanography, provides a new way to describe contrasts in watermass properties.

Posted inResearch Spotlights

What Happens to Minerals as They Get Squeezed in the Mantle?

by C. Schultz 4 November 201419 August 2022

Researchers test how different minerals found in the Earth’s mantle respond to high temperatures and pressures.

Posted inResearch Spotlights

Low Heliosphere Pressure Drives Wide CMEs in Weak Solar Cycles

JoAnna Wendel, freelance science writer and illustrator by JoAnna Wendel 29 July 201427 March 2023

Why are coronal mass ejections from the current solar cycle wider than others? Researchers investigate.

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