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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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June 2011Five new and three improved mutual orbits of transneptunian binaries

Grundy, W. M., Noll, K. S., Nimmo, F., Roe, H. G., Buie, M. W., Porter, S. B., … Benecchi, S. D. (2011). Icarus, 213(2), 678–692. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2011.03.012

Comparative Assessment of the Composition and Charge State of Nitrogenase FeMo-Cofactor

Harris, T. V., & Szilagyi, R. K. (2011). Inorg. Chem., 50(11), 4811–4824. doi:10.1021/ic102446n

Needs and opportunities in mineral evolution research

Hazen, R. M., Bekker, A., Bish, D. L., Bleeker, W., Downs, R. T., Farquhar, J., … Ferry, J. M. (2011). American Mineralogist, 96(7), 953–963. doi:10.2138/am.2011.3725

Origin and Evolution of Prebiotic Organic Matter As Inferred from the Tagish Lake Meteorite

Herd, C. D. K., Blinova, A., Simkus, D. N., Huang, Y., Tarozo, R., Alexander, C. M. O., … Gyngard, F. (2011). Science, 332(6035), 1304–1307. doi:10.1126/science.1203290

MAIN-BELT COMET 238P/READ REVISITED

Hsieh, H. H., Meech, K. J., & Pittichová, J. (2011). The Astrophysical Journal, 736(1), L18. doi:10.1088/2041-8205/736/1/l18

The adsorption of short single-stranded DNA oligomers to mineral surfaces

James Cleaves, H., Crapster-Pregont, E., Jonsson, C. M., Jonsson, C. L., Sverjensky, D. A., & Hazen, R. A. (2011). Chemosphere, 83(11), 1560–1567. doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2011.01.023

REVISED ORBIT AND TRANSIT EXCLUSION FOR HD 114762b

Kane, S. R., Henry, G. W., Dragomir, D., Fischer, D. A., Howard, A. W., Wang, X., & Wright, J. T. (2011). The Astrophysical Journal, 735(2), L41. doi:10.1088/2041-8205/735/2/l41

A theoretical investigation of the low energy conformers of the isomers glycine and methylcarbamic acid and their role in the interstellar medium

Kayi, H., Kaiser, R. I., & Head, J. D. (2011). Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 13(35), 15774. doi:10.1039/c1cp20656g

Compositional diversity in insoluble organic matter in type 1, 2 and 3 chondrites as detected by infrared spectroscopy

Kebukawa, Y., Alexander, C. M. O. D., & Cody, G. D. (2011). Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 75(12), 3530–3541. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2011.03.037

Synthesis of Carbohydrates in Mineral-Guided Prebiotic Cycles

Kim, H-J., Ricardo, A., Illangkoon, H. I., Kim, M. J., Carrigan, M. A., Frye, F., & Benner, S. A. (2011). Journal of the American Chemical Society, 133(24), 9457–9468. doi:10.1021/ja201769f

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