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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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April 2016Spontaneous formation and base pairing of plausible prebiotic nucleotides in water

Cafferty, B. J., Fialho, D. M., Khanam, J., Krishnamurthy, R., & Hud, N. V. (2016). Spontaneous formation and base pairing of plausible prebiotic nucleotides in water. Nature Communications, 7, 11328. doi:10.1038/ncomms11328

On the lack of evolutionary continuity between prebiotic peptides and extant enzymes

Raggi, L., Bada, J. L., & Lazcano, A. (2016). On the lack of evolutionary continuity between prebiotic peptides and extant enzymes. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 18(30), 20028–20032. doi:10.1039/c6cp00793g

Environmental context for the terminal Ediacaran biomineralization of animals

Cui, H., Kaufman, A. J., Xiao, S., Peek, S., Cao, H., Min, X., … Martin, A. J. (2016). Environmental context for the terminal Ediacaran biomineralization of animals. Geobiology, 14(4), 344–363. doi:10.1111/gbi.12178

Mercury anomalies and the timing of biotic recovery following the end-Triassic mass extinction

Thibodeau, A. M., Ritterbush, K., Yager, J. A., West, A. J., Ibarra, Y., Bottjer, D. J., … Berelson, W. M. (2016). Nat Comms, 7(None), 11147. doi:10.1038/ncomms11147

EVIDENCE FOR REFLECTED LIGHT FROM THE MOST ECCENTRIC EXOPLANET KNOWN

Kane, S. R., Wittenmyer, R. A., Hinkel, N. R., Roy, A., Mahadevan, S., Dragomir, D., … O’Toole, S. J. (2016). EVIDENCE FOR REFLECTED LIGHT FROM THE MOST ECCENTRIC EXOPLANET KNOWN. The Astrophysical Journal, 821(1), 65. doi:10.3847/0004-637x/821/1/65

Carbon and Sulfur Cycling below the Chemocline in a Meromictic Lake and the Identification of a Novel Taxonomic Lineage in the FCB Superphylum, Candidatus Aegiribacteria

Hamilton, T. L., Bovee, R. J., Sattin, S. R., Mohr, W., Gilhooly, W. P., Lyons, T. W., … Pearson, A. (2016). Frontiers in Microbiology, 7(None), None. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2016.00598

Evolutionary tradeoffs in cellular composition across diverse bacteria

Kempes, C. P., Wang, L., Amend, J. P., Doyle, J., & Hoehler, T. (2016). ISME J. doi:10.1038/ismej.2016.21

Proteomic Stable Isotope Probing Reveals Biosynthesis Dynamics of Slow Growing Methane Based Microbial Communities

Marlow, J. J., Skennerton, C. T., Li, Z., Chourey, K., Hettich, R. L., Pan, C., & Orphan, V. J. (2016). Frontiers in Microbiology, 7(None), None. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2016.00563

No evidence for high atmospheric oxygen levels 1,400 million years ago

Planavsky, N. J., Cole, D. B., Reinhard, C. T., Diamond, C., Love, G. D., Luo, G., … Zhang, S. (2016). Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 113(19), E2550–E2551. doi:10.1073/pnas.1601925113

Nanocalorimetric Characterization of Microbial Activity in Deep Subsurface Oceanic Crustal Fluids

Robador, A., LaRowe, D. E., Jungbluth, S. P., Lin, H-T., Rappé, M. S., Nealson, K. H., & Amend, J. P. (2016). Frontiers in Microbiology, 7(None), None. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2016.00454

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