CU Boulder will soon play a significant role in estimating the withdrawals from Earth’s energy bank account. This week, NASA declared that it has given the green light to Libera, a new space mission that will record how a lot of energy leaves the planet’s atmosphere on a step by step premiseāinformation that can give […]
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Pluto’s well-known heart powers icy breezes on the dwarf planet
The dwarf planet’s well known heart-shaped feature, which NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft found during its epic July 2015 flyby, drives atmospheric circulation patterns on Pluto, another investigation recommends. The vast majority of the activity comes courtesy of the heart’s left lobe, a 600-mile-wide (1,000 kilometers) nitrogen-ice plain called Sputnik Planitia. This exotic ice vaporizes during […]
Mars once had salt lakes like those on Earth
Mars once had salt lakes that are like those on Earth and has experienced wet and dry periods, as indicated by an international group of researchers that incorporates a Texas A&M University College of Geosciences analyst. Marion Nachon, a postdoctoral research partner in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at Texas A&M, and colleagues have […]