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Early Career Opportunities for SBAGMarch 10, 2020
Illustration of a transiting exoplanet similar to GJ1214b. GJ1214b was discovered by the MEarth project and investigated further by the HARPS spectrograph on the European Southern Observatory's (ESO’s) 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla Observatory in Chile.
Convergence Time in Simulating Extrasolar AtmospheresMarch 9, 2020
Sulfur chemistry was vital for early anaerobic life in the Archean eon, over 2.5 billion years ago.
Flash Floods in the Mid-ArcheanMarch 7, 2020
Illustration of NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars.
Virginia Middle School Student Earns Honor of Naming NASA's Next Mars RoverMarch 6, 2020
Artist impression of JAXA’s MMX spacecraft around Mars.
Planetary Protection and the Moons of MarsMarch 6, 2020
Evaporation, convection, rainfall and winds can even out heat imbalances in the atmosphere. Here, cumulus clouds carry solar energy away from Earth’s surface over South America.
Earth's Ancient Barometric PressureMarch 6, 2020
LPSC 51 has been cancelled due to concerns about COVID-19.
LPSC 51 CancelledMarch 5, 2020
A sample of suevite rock formed nearly 15 million years ago by the Ries Crater meteorite impact. Similarly impact-generated rocks exist on the rims of ancient crater lakes on Mars.
Ancient Impact Site on Earth Provides Clues about Mars' PastMarch 3, 2020
The NASA insignia is one of the agency's best-known symbols.
2020 NASA Planetary Science Summer School Applications OpenMarch 3, 2020
Illustration of NASA's Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft.
Stellar Wind and Planetary HabitabilityMarch 3, 2020
This artistic impression shows NASA's planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft operating in a new mission profile called K2. In May the spacecraft began its new mission observing in the ecliptic plane, the orbital path of Earth around the sun, depicted by the gre
The Composition of Super-EarthsMarch 2, 2020
Telescopes at McDonald Observatory.
First Planet Validation for the Habitable Zone Planet FinderFeb. 28, 2020
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