The mission aims to explore this relatively unstudied hemisphere and learn about its age, composition, and geologic history.Read More »Planetary Sciences
The idea of sending people to Mars has captured the public imagination, but have we fully considered how our presence will alter the planet?Read More »
Force imbalance between Jupiter’s ionosphere and magnetosphere leads to wave generation to release this stress, but the waves also accelerate particles, causing aurora and heating.Read More »Planetary Sciences
Collaborative and interdisciplinary research will be key to realizing the missions’ full potential, according to the exoplanet strategy report.Read More »Space Science & Space Physics
A new simulation of the Earth’s electron radiation belts captures large-scale variations over nearly three solar cycles, and replicates primary cyclical features and extreme behaviors.Read More »Planetary Sciences
Voyager 2 visited the ice giants in the 1980s, the only craft ever to do so. Planetary scientists argue that new missions to each planet would also benefit heliophysics and exoplanet research.Read More »
A robot that can inch up icy surfaces may help scientists reach new heights in some of Earth’s most dangerous and remote landscapes.Read More »Space Science & Space Physics
Both simulations and observations are used to measure the magnetic reconnection rate in the Earth’s magnetotail, suggesting that the rate is correlated with the intensity of a magnetic substorm.Read More »
