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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 2012Laser ablation mass spectrometer (LAMS) as a standoff analyzer in space missions for airless bodies

Li, X., Brinckerhoff, W. B., Managadze, G. G., Pugel, D. E., Corrigan, C. M., & Doty, J. H. (2012). International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, 323-324(None), 63–67. doi:10.1016/j.ijms.2012.06.020

Thermal regeneration of sulfuric acid hydrates after irradiation

Loeffler, M. J., & Hudson, R. L. (2012). Icarus, 219(2), 561–566. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2012.03.023

High-pressure and high-temperature titanium solution mechanisms in silicate-saturated aqueous fluids and hydrous silicate melts

Mysen, B. (2012). American Mineralogist, 97(7), 1241–1251. doi:10.2138/am.2012.4084

Sulfur-33 constraints on the origin of secondary pyrite in altered oceanic basement

Ono, S., Keller, N. S., Rouxel, O., & Alt, J. C. (2012). Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 87(None), 323–340. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2012.04.016

LAGERSTATTEN THROUGH TIME: A COLLECTION OF EXCEPTIONAL PRESERVATIONAL PATHWAYS FROM THE TERMINAL NEOPROTEROZOIC THROUGH TODAY

Schiffbauer, J. D., & Laflamme, M. (2012). PALAIOS, 27(5), 275–278. doi:10.2110/palo.2012.so3

Microbial Lithotrophic Oxidation of Structural Fe(II) in Biotite

Shelobolina, E., Xu, H., Konishi, H., Kukkadapu, R., Wu, T., Blothe, M., & Roden, E. (2012). Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 78(16), 5746–5752. doi:10.1128/aem.01034-12

Coordinating Environmental Genomics and Geochemistry Reveals Metabolic Transitions in a Hot Spring Ecosystem

Swingley, W. D., Meyer-Dombard, D. A. R., Shock, E. L., Alsop, E. B., Falenski, H. D., Havig, J. R., & Raymond, J. (2012). PLoS ONE, 7(6), e38108. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038108

Heteronuclear Adiabatic Relaxation Dispersion (HARD) for quantitative analysis of conformational dynamics in proteins

Traaseth, N. J., Chao, F-A., Masterson, L. R., Mangia, S., Garwood, M., Michaeli, S., … Seelig, B. (2012). Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 219(None), 75–82. doi:10.1016/j.jmr.2012.03.024

THE ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN PLANET SEARCH. XXII. TWO NEW MULTI-PLANET SYSTEMS

Wittenmyer, R. A., Horner, J., Tuomi, M., Salter, G. S., Tinney, C. G., Butler, R. P., … Jones, H. R. A. (2012). The Astrophysical Journal, 753(2), 169. doi:10.1088/0004-637x/753/2/169

THE FREQUENCY OF HOT JUPITERS ORBITING NEARBY SOLAR-TYPE STARS

Wright, J. T., Marcy, G. W., Howard, A. W., Johnson, J. A., Morton, T. D., & Fischer, D. A. (2012). The Astrophysical Journal, 753(2), 160. doi:10.1088/0004-637x/753/2/160

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