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Photograph of an opening called “Dingo Gap” from the Mars Science Laboratory rover “Curiosity” with an inset of the young scientist Marzieh Foroutan

Editors' Vox 8 hours ago

A Fallen Rising Star

The last works of Marzieh (Mari) Foroutan, an early-career martian geologist who was lost to us in 2020, have now been completed and published in JGR: Planets.
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An Asteroid “Double Disaster” Struck Germany in the Miocene

By analyzing sediments jostled by ground shaking, researchers have shown that two impact craters near Stuttgart were created by independent asteroid impacts rather than a binary asteroid strike.
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Plot showing measured magnetic field on Juno as a function of frequency and time on 29 May 2019

Editors' Highlights 25 January 2021

Radio on Jupiter, Brought to You by Ganymede

Another first from NASA’s Juno spacecraft: the detection of Jupiter radio emissions influenced by the moon Ganymede, over a range of about 250 kilometers in the polar region of Jupiter.
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Illustration of a lot of debris orbiting Earth

Opinion 19 January 2021

Charting Satellite Courses in a Crowded Thermosphere

As the number of satellites in low Earth orbit grows by leaps and bounds, accurate calculations of the effects of atmospheric drag on their trajectories are becoming critically important.
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Planetary Sciences
Pair of images of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede taken by a passing spacecraft

Research Spotlight 14 January 2021

Juno Maps Water Ice Across Northern Ganymede

Infrared observations from instruments on the Juno spacecraft cover regions of Ganymede not visible to Earth-based telescopes.
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News 7 January 2021

Very Good Space Boys: Robotic Dogs May Dig Into Martian Caves

Four-legged, autonomous robots known as “Mars Dogs” will explore previously inaccessible caves to look for signs of life and potential locations for future human colonies.
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Plot showing X-Ray Diffraction patterns for products from Mars chamber electrostatic discharge experiments using hydrated magnesium sulfate salt starting materials.

Editors' Highlights 7 January 2021

Martian Dust Activities Induce Electrochemistry

Amorphous materials generated from sulfur and chloride salts by electrostatic discharge in a Mars chamber suggest widespread electrical processes during dust activities.
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Plot showing evolution of crustal thickness over time for mantle convection models of Venus with different yield strength

Editors' Highlights 5 January 2021

What Happened When the Lithosphere of Venus Broke?

Although Venus does not have plate tectonics today, previous episodes of intense tectonic activity could have resulted in a distribution of crustal thickness and age resembling the plate we see today.
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Geology & Geophysics
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Research Spotlight 4 January 2021

First Detection of a Built-In Wobble on Another Planet

Spacecraft find that Mars oscillates 10 centimeters off its axis of rotation.
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The Best of Eos in 2020

What Earth and space science stories stood out this year, and what are we looking forward to in 2021?
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