planetary science

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  • Roman Space Telescope Will Accelerate Exoplanet Search 500X Faster Than Hubble
    Roman spacecraft render
    The newly named Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope – formerly called the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) – is set to launch in the mid-2020s.
  • NASA To Conduct Further Studies Of Jupiter Using James Webb James Webb Space Telescope
    The Galilean satellite Io floats above the cloudtops of Jupiter
    The largest planet in the solar system holds a lot of secrets that the Webb telescope will attempt to uncover.
  • Early Mars May Have Been Covered In Ice Sheets
    The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy, in the midst of their ICESCAPE mission, retrieves supplies dropped by parachute in the Arctic Ocean
    The new findings effectively throw cold water on the dominant hypothesis, which postulates that rivers, rainfall, and oceans once existed on Mars.
  • Return Of The Long, Thin Cloud On Mars
    Image of Arsia Mons in Tharsis region on Mars.
    The cloud is made up of water ice, but despite appearances, it is not a plume linked to volcanic activity
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