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JWST Reveals Pluto’s Haze Cools Atmosphere, Paints Charon’s Poles Red
Pluto's thin haze of organic particles, confirmed by JWST’s mid-infrared observations, plays a crucial role in both cooling its mesosphere and launching methane into space. This methane escapes Pluto’s gravity, landing on Charon’s poles where radiation transforms it into reddish tholins. The study highlights how Pluto’s haze shapes not only...
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MAVEN Reveals How Mars Lost Its Atmosphere and Became a Barren World
NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft has provided the first direct evidence of "sputtering"—a powerful atmospheric escape process where solar wind particles blast atoms off Mars. The newly published study confirms that this process played a major role in the Red Planet’s transformation from a once-wet, habitable world to its current barren state. Argon ga...
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In Shocking Discovery, NASA Finds Invisible Electric Field Around Earth
This electric field drives the polar wind, propelling charged particles into space at supersonic speeds and shaping Earth's atmosphere, particularly over the poles.
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Pluto 'Paints' Its Largest Moon Red: NASA
The reddish polar region on Pluto's largest moon, Charon, is an effect of methane gas escaping from the icy dwarf planet's atmosphere, say scientists who solved the mystery behind the coloured region first spotted by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft last year.
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Atomic Oxygen Detected in Martian Atmosphere
Atomic oxygen affects how other gases escape Mars and therefore has a significant impact on the planet's atmosphere.
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Carbon From Mars Escaped Into Atmosphere Due to UV Rays, Claims Study
Scientists suggest that 3.8 billion years ago, Mars might have had a moderately dense atmosphere.
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How Carbon From Mars Escaped Into Atmosphere
A team of scientists has offered an explanation of the "missing" carbon on Red Planet, suggesting that it may have escaped into the atmosphere owing to the strong ultraviolet (UV) rays from the Sun.
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Nasa's Maven Spacecraft Finds Mars Behaving Like a Rock Star
Mars was seen to sport a "Mohawk" of escaping atmospheric particles at its poles.
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Groundwater Warming Up Due to Climate Change: Study
Groundwater has not escaped global warming, says a study, suggesting that the warming stages observed in the atmosphere are replicated down below as well.
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JWST Reveals Pluto’s Haze Cools Atmosphere, Paints Charon’s Poles Red
Pluto's thin haze of organic particles, confirmed by JWST’s mid-infrared observations, plays a crucial role in both cooling its mesosphere and launching methane into space. This methane escapes Pluto’s gravity, landing on Charon’s poles where radiation transforms it into reddish tholins. The study highlights how Pluto’s haze shapes not only...
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MAVEN Reveals How Mars Lost Its Atmosphere and Became a Barren World
NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft has provided the first direct evidence of "sputtering"—a powerful atmospheric escape process where solar wind particles blast atoms off Mars. The newly published study confirms that this process played a major role in the Red Planet’s transformation from a once-wet, habitable world to its current barren state. Argon ga...
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In Shocking Discovery, NASA Finds Invisible Electric Field Around Earth
This electric field drives the polar wind, propelling charged particles into space at supersonic speeds and shaping Earth's atmosphere, particularly over the poles.
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Pluto 'Paints' Its Largest Moon Red: NASA
The reddish polar region on Pluto's largest moon, Charon, is an effect of methane gas escaping from the icy dwarf planet's atmosphere, say scientists who solved the mystery behind the coloured region first spotted by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft last year.
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Atomic Oxygen Detected in Martian Atmosphere
Atomic oxygen affects how other gases escape Mars and therefore has a significant impact on the planet's atmosphere.
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Carbon From Mars Escaped Into Atmosphere Due to UV Rays, Claims Study
Scientists suggest that 3.8 billion years ago, Mars might have had a moderately dense atmosphere.
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How Carbon From Mars Escaped Into Atmosphere
A team of scientists has offered an explanation of the "missing" carbon on Red Planet, suggesting that it may have escaped into the atmosphere owing to the strong ultraviolet (UV) rays from the Sun.
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Nasa's Maven Spacecraft Finds Mars Behaving Like a Rock Star
Mars was seen to sport a "Mohawk" of escaping atmospheric particles at its poles.
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Groundwater Warming Up Due to Climate Change: Study
Groundwater has not escaped global warming, says a study, suggesting that the warming stages observed in the atmosphere are replicated down below as well.
