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Map of thorium concentrations across the South Pole–Aitken Basin on the Moon’s farside

Research Spotlight 12 February 2021

Moon’s Largest Crater Holds Clues About Early Lunar Mantle

An ancient impact splashed evidence of the Moon’s early mantle makeup onto its surface. Now researchers are piecing together models, maps, and samples to bring these mysteries to light.
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Biogeosciences
An artistic depiction of Europa Clipper flying through the plumes of Europa, studying the moon and searching for life.

News 8 February 2021

This Search for Alien Life Starts with Destroying Bacteria on Earth

Someday, a catalog of molecular fragments might help scientists identify extraterrestrial life on our solar system’s icy moons.
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Planetary Sciences
Image of the southern part of the Orientale Basin with yellow patches indicating boulders fields

Editors' Highlights 8 February 2021

The Tumbling Boulders of Orientale Basin

Mapping boulder fields and boulder tracks highlights the seismic hazard still present on the Moon.
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Planetary Sciences
Satellite image of the ice at Mars’s north pole

Research Spotlight 4 February 2021

Decoding the Age of the Ice at Mars’s North Pole

Exposure to sunlight creates telltale patterns in the polar ice cap that change over time, potentially providing insight into the climatic history of the Red Planet.
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Satellite image of vegetation in Earth’s Eastern Hemisphere

News 3 February 2021

Chance the Hacker: How Earth Stayed Habitable

New analysis indicates that planetary feedbacks alone don’t make habitability an inevitability.
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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 27 January 2021

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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St. George's Church, Nördlingen, surrounded by red roofs.

News 27 January 2021

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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Space Science & Space Physics
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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