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Planetary Tomography: Towards Imaging Earth's Large-scale Structures By Directional Geoneutrino Detection With Ocean Bottom Detector
3+ hour, 15+ min ago (363+ words) astrobiology. com Planetary Tomography: Towards Imaging Earth's Large-scale Structures By Directional Geoneutrino Detection With Ocean Bottom Detector Editor's note: when we start to examine other worlds more closely we are going to need tools that allow us to get the…...
Away Team Mission: NASA, USGS Scientists Go Rock Hounding in California's High Desert
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (413+ words) The discovery of topaz on a volcanic outcrop in the Mojave Desert may hint at a porphyry copper deposit below. Equipped with rock picks and hand lenses, a team of geoscientists deployed to the Mojave Desert recently to investigate a…...
Ice Planet Recon: Giant Fan-shaped Geological Structure Discovered Beneath East Antarctica - Astrobiology
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (426+ words) An international team of researchers including our Department of Geography has discovered a vast geological structure hidden beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. The structure is made up of a system of enormous subglacial basins buried in ice over three…...
Planetary Science Analysis and Assessment Group Support
4+ day, 19+ hour ago (255+ words) Editor's note: Earlier this year'it was announced'that NASA's Planetary Science Division to cease financial support for planetary science Analysis/Assessment Groups (AGs), effective the end of April 2026. The following email was sent out by USRA today:' een to serve as…...
NASA-DARES Draft Strategy Open for Public Comment
1+ week, 3+ day ago (158+ words) Comment Deadline: 11: 59 p. m. EDT on Thursday, July 2nd, 2026. Dear Colleagues, The NASA Astrobiology Program and DARES Task Force 2 are pleased to announce the opening of the public comment period for the draft Decadal Astrobiology Research and Exploration Strategy (NASA-DARES). The draft report,…...
Gorgona Island (Colombia) As A Terrestrial Analog Of Syrtis Major (Mars): Evidence From Geochemical Meta-analyses And Compositional Figures Of Merit
2+ week, 3+ day ago (223+ words) The identification of terrestrial analogs is a key strategy for advancing our understanding of the geological and geochemical evolution of Mars. This study evaluates the potential of Gorgona Island (Colombian Pacific) as a geochemical analog of Syrtis Major. Gorgona Island…...
Overhead View Of A Small Chaotic Area In Shalbatana Vallis On Mars - Astrobiology
3+ week, 2+ day ago (105+ words) Overhead View Of A Small Chaotic Area In Shalbatana Vallis On Mars astrobiology. com Overhead View Of A Small Chaotic Area In Shalbatana Vallis On Mars This view was generated from the digital terrain model and the nadir and colour…...
Ganymede Might Still Be Forming Its Metal Core Today
3+ week, 5+ day ago (477+ words) Jupiter's moon Ganymede is the largest moon in the solar system; at over 3, 200 miles across, it is larger than the planet Mercury. It is also the only moon with its own intrinsic magnetic field, produced by a churning central core…...
In Situ Carbonation of Sedimentary and Igneous Rocks of Ultramafic Composition in Jezero Crater, Mars
4+ week, 1+ day ago (205+ words) Over 3. 5 years of exploration in Jezero Crater, the Perseverance rover has explored several geological units of diverse origins and natures, performing multi-technique remote analyses of the chemistry and mineralogy of rocks with the Super Cam instrument suite. Three of these…...
Ice Planet Orbital Recon: Greenland's Changing Ice
4+ week, 2+ day ago (278+ words) Greenland is the world's largest island and about 80% of its surface is covered by the Greenland Ice Sheet, the second largest ice mass on Earth after the Antarctic Ice Sheet. This image combines three acquisitions taken by Sentinel-1's radar…...