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A volcanically active planet is shown in closeup at the left side of the image with glowing eruptions and lines of lava on the surface. To the right and in the distance is a faint blue glowing ball representing the more massive planet in the system.

Sixteen frames from Voyager 1's flyby of Jupiter in 1979 were merged to create this image. Jupiter's Great Red Spot is visible in the center. Jupiter's moon Europa can be seen in the foreground at the bottom left of the image.

The frame is a horizontal rainbow of color on a grid. Shadows of molecules can be seen through the light as well as the jagged peaks and troughs of spectral lines.

Fizzy Super Earths and Lava Worlds“Fizzy Super-Earths: Impacts of Magma Composition on the Bulk Density and Structure of Lava Worlds.” in The Astrophysical Journal.01/03

Identifying Hydrothermal Activity on Icy Ocean Worlds“Ethene-ethanol ratios as potential indicators of hydrothermal activity at Enceladus, Europa, and other icy ocean worlds.” In Icarus.02/03

NASA Raman Spectroscopic Database"The NASA Raman spectroscopic database: Ramdb version 1.00.” In Icarus.03/03

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March 2013Are large Trojan asteroids salty? An observational, theoretical, and experimental study

Yang, B., Lucey, P., & Glotch, T. (2013). Icarus, 223(1), 359–366. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2012.11.025

In situ AFM observations of Ca–Mg carbonate crystallization catalyzed by dissolved sulfide: Implications for sedimentary dolomite formation

Zhang, F., Yan, C., Teng, H. H., Roden, E. E., & Xu, H. (2013). Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 105(None), 44–55. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2012.11.010

EVIDENCE FOR A SNOW LINE BEYOND THE TRANSITIONAL RADIUS IN THE TW Hya PROTOPLANETARY DISK

Zhang, K., Pontoppidan, K. M., Salyk, C., & Blake, G. A. (2013). The Astrophysical Journal, 766(2), 82. doi:10.1088/0004-637x/766/2/82

February 2013HABITABLE ZONES AROUND MAIN-SEQUENCE STARS: NEW ESTIMATES

Kopparapu, R. K., Ramirez, R., Kasting, J. F., Eymet, V., Robinson, T. D., Mahadevan, S., … Deshpande, R. (2013). HABITABLE ZONES AROUND MAIN-SEQUENCE STARS: NEW ESTIMATES. The Astrophysical Journal, 765(2), 131. doi:10.1088/0004-637x/765/2/131

Efficient Self-Assembly in Water of Long Noncovalent Polymers by Nucleobase Analogues

Cafferty, B. J., Gállego, I., Chen, M. C., Farley, K. I., Eritja, R., & Hud, N. V. (2013). Efficient Self-Assembly in Water of Long Noncovalent Polymers by Nucleobase Analogues. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 135(7), 2447–2450. doi:10.1021/ja312155v

From Formamide to Purine: An Energetically Viable Mechanistic Reaction Pathway

Wang, J., Gu, J., Nguyen, M. T., Springsteen, G., & Leszczynski, J. (2013). From Formamide to Purine: An Energetically Viable Mechanistic Reaction Pathway. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 117(8), 2314–2320. doi:10.1021/jp311423q

Turnstiles and bifurcators: The disequilibrium converting engines that put metabolism on the road

Branscomb, E., & Russell, M. J. (2013). Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, 1827(2), 62–78. doi:10.1016/j.bbabio.2012.10.003

GJ 1214 reviewed

Anglada-Escudé, G., Rojas-Ayala, B., Boss, A. P., Weinberger, A. J., & Lloyd, J. P. (2013). A&A, 551(None), A48. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201219250

IS THE SUN LIGHTER THAN THE EARTH? ISOTOPIC CO IN THE PHOTOSPHERE, VIEWED THROUGH THE LENS OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL SPECTRUM SYNTHESIS

Ayres, T. R., Lyons, J. R., Ludwig, H-G., Caffau, E., & Wedemeyer-Böhm, S. (2013). The Astrophysical Journal, 765(1), 46. doi:10.1088/0004-637x/765/1/46

A sub-Mercury-sized exoplanet

Barclay, T., Rowe, J. F., Lissauer, J. J., Huber, D., Fressin, F., Howell, S. B., … Bryson, S. T. (2013). Nature, 494(7438), 452–454. doi:10.1038/nature11914

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