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Probing Uranus Is Top Priority This Decade, U.S. Science Advisors Say
Here’s the plan for Uranus.
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NASA Releases an Audio Clip of What Jupiter’s Icy Moon Ganymede Sounds Like
Imagining Ganymede, Jupiter’s icy moon and the largest moon in our Solar System, can be quite the challenge. (I’m still at, “Whoa, that’s a big moon.”) Understanding it is a whole other story, and scientists are still working on that. Whether you’re seeking to learn more about the gigantic moon or unravel its scientific mysteries,…
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NASA Spacecraft Has a Close Encounter with Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede
NASA’s Juno spacecraft, in orbit around Jupiter since 2016, made a close flyby of the planet’s moon Ganymede at 3:35 a.m. AEST on Tuesday. Its goal: to take stock of the icy orb’s composition and magnetic field, among other measurements.
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Where Are All the Aliens? Maybe Trapped in Underground Oceans
A planetary scientist says subterranean water worlds are likely common in the galaxy and probably even better for life than Earth-like environments. Should an intelligent species arise beneath the frozen crust, however, they’d find themselves in perpetual isolation, in what is a possible solution to the Fermi Paradox.