Tag: planetary science

New Southwest Research Institute modeling that includes material strength shows the Moon may have formed intact within hours of the ...

New simulations from Southwest Research Institute and collaborators show that catastrophic impacts tend to destroy or prevent subsurface oceans in ...

New simulations that incorporate the geological strength and temperature of the colliding bodies suggest the moon may have formed intact ...

New UC Riverside research shows that Venus's extremely slow rotation and strong gravity would have caused any moon it ever ...

Atmospheric simulations suggest gravity waves over the Martian volcano Arsia Mons can trigger spontaneous ice nucleation, forming clouds without the ...

New modelling based on ESA's Mars Express data shows that Mars's elongated Arsia Mons cloud forms through homogeneous nucleation, a ...

New research shows that kilometre-long shallow trenches on Australia's Nullarbor Plain are the surface expression of deep, slowly collapsing cave ...

New laboratory measurements of light scattering from graphite powders of different grain sizes reveal crossover behavior in reflectance curves, providing ...

New research reveals that slow freezing and fragmentation of ocean droplets within Enceladus' vents create the chemically diverse ice grains ...

SwRI's Strofio mass spectrometer, uncovered after BepiColombo's orbiters separated from their transfer module, is set to sample Mercury's exosphere to ...