Sand blown by wind into ripples within Victoria Crater at Meridiani Planum on Mars, as photographed by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on October 3, 2006. NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Cornell/Ohio State University May 19, 2022 What’s it like to be on Venus or Pluto? We studied their sand dunes and found some clues Andrew Gunn, Monash University There are many bodies in the solar system we can’t easily access. But observations of their winds and sediments reveal a surprising amount.
A volcanic eruption on Jupiter’s moon Io. NASA/JPL/DLR June 7, 2021 Nasa has just rejected missions to moons of Jupiter and Neptune – here’s what we would have found out Ashley Spindler, University of Hertfordshire When two missions to Venus were announced, two others missed out.
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