Tag: Planetary science
What lies beneath: unearthing the secret interior lives of planets – Physics World
Ian Randall reviews What’s Hidden Inside Planets? by Sabine Stanley
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Moonquakes and landslides make the lunar south pole unstable – Physics World
The most likely source of the strongest shallow “moonquake” ever recorded is less than 60 km from the lunar south pole and within many...
Quantum News Briefs: February 16, 2024: Infleqtion Partners with Lastek Pty Ltd to distribute its Quantum Cores products for the quantum research and commercial...
By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry posted 16 Feb 2024
Quantum News Briefs: February 16, 2024:
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She Decodes Quakes From Undersea Volcanoes (and Taylor Swift) | Quanta Magazine
IntroductionWe often think of volcanoes as skyscraping marvels, but these portals to the geologic underworld also reside underwater. Unfortunately, submarine volcanoes are trickier to...
NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission slammed by independent review panel – Physics World
The future of NASA’s next flagship mission to Mars has been put in doubt following...
Estimates of water ice on the Moon get a ‘dramatic’ downgrade – Physics World
New estimates by planetary scientists in the US suggest that the Moon contains significantly less...
NASA puts UK physicist Nicola Fox in charge of $7.8bn science programme
Leading light: As NASA’s associate administrator for the science mission directorate, Fox will be responsible for an...
New Results From NASA’s DART Mission Confirm We Could Deflect Deadly Asteroids
What would we do if we spotted a hazardous asteroid on a collision course with Earth? Could we deflect it safely to prevent the...
Debris ejected from the DART impact helped give asteroid Dimorphos an extra push
The impact of a spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos last year changed the asteroid’s orbital...
‘Volatile’ elements in inner solar system have several different origins
Planetary scientists in France have reviewed and analysed recent research on the origins of “volatile” elements in the inner solar system...
How can academic publishing support FAIR and open science?
Join us for a live webinar at 1 p.m. GMT on 10 February 2023, sponsored by the IOP Publishing journal, Machine...
Japan-United Arab Emirates Moon mission successfully launches
The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) first lunar rover successfully took off today from Florida’s Cape...
Rare form of diamond exists independently in meteorites
Researchers in Australia have discovered that a type of diamond called lonsdaleite can exist independently of normal diamond in a rare type of meteorite....