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Researchers stand with a rover robot inside a lava tube cave at Lava Beds National Monument in California

Science Update 1 December 2020

Planetary Cave Exploration Progresses

Terrestrial caves offer scientific and engineering insights and serve as testing grounds for future forays by humans and robots into caves on other worlds.
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Satellite image of Earth, as filmed by Apollo 8 astronauts from the surface of the Moon

News 30 November 2020

Exoplanet Earth: An Ultimate Selfie to Find Habitable Worlds

Aliens spying on us from afar is a common science fiction trope. Soon we might know what E.T. would see through a telescope. And that information could help identify other Earth-like planets.
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A colorful depiction of the four Magnetospheric Multiscale mission satellites traversing Earth’s magnetic field

News 24 November 2020

Bringing Clarity to Magnetic Reconnection

A particle-level process appears to play a key role in planet-sized events throughout the universe.
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A color mosaic close-up of the pockmarked surface of a crescent Moon

Research Spotlight 20 November 2020

Moon May Hold Billions of Tons of Subterranean Ice at Its Poles

By modeling over 4 billion years of the Moon’s impact history, scientists estimate that the lunar poles may harbor billions of metric tons of subsurface ice.
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Atmospheric Sciences
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Research Spotlight 18 November 2020

Gravity Waves Leave Ripples Across a Glowing Night Sky

A thunderstorm made waves on a rare “bright night.”
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A Cassini image of Saturn’s moon Enceladus with the four tiger stripes highlighted

News 11 November 2020

On Thin Ice: Tiger Stripes on Enceladus

Saturn’s moon Enceladus boasts fierce tiger stripes around its south pole, a mystery that has long puzzled scientists. New research explores the stripes by examining how the moon’s ice breaks.
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Jupiter as seen by the Juno spacecraft on 17 February 2020

Research Spotlight 9 November 2020

A Juno Era Model of the Jovian Magnetosphere

Updating a model developed during the Voyager flybys will enable better mission planning and a deeper understanding of Juno data.
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Planetary Sciences
Researchers conduct magnetic measurements of a meteorite at the Smithsonian Museum Support Center.

News 4 November 2020

Measuring Massive Magnetic Meteorites

A new tool to measure the magnetic signatures of big meteorites could not only aid NASA’s mission to Psyche; it could also help solve mysteries about how magnetic fields formed in our early solar system.
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Planetary Sciences
Close-up satellite view of carbon dioxide ice in Mars’s south polar cap

Research Spotlight 2 November 2020

A Precise Mosaic View of Mars’s South Pole

A new workflow improves the process of creating massive, accurate mosaics from spacecraft-captured images of a planet’s surface.
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Climate Change
A coronal mass ejection is seen in this image captured by the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory spacecraft in 2012.

Research Spotlight 29 October 2020

The “Complicated” Complexity of Solar Storms

Researchers turned to crowdsourced science to identify patterns in coronal mass ejections.
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