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October 27, 2022
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Space.com

An eerie new video allows us to hear what NASA’s Juno spacecraft experienced as it made a flyby of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa last month. The 11-second-long audio track expresses variations of plasma frequency, using data collected by Juno over 90 …

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CNN

Now, scientists know what caused the red planet to rumble. A meteoroid slammed into Mars 2,174 miles (3,500 kilometers) away from the lander and created a fresh impact crater on the Martian surface. The …

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The New York Times

The exquisitely sensitive seismometer on NASA’s InSight lander dutifully recorded the burst of seismic vibrations and then dispatched the data, a gift of science, to Earth the next day. The InSight scientists were busy celebrating the …

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Scientific American

Deinococcus radiodurans, nicknamed “Conan the Bacterium,” is one of the world’s toughest microbes, capable of surviving in radiation strong enough to kill any other known life-form. Experiments have now shown that if …

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Space.com

In addition, photos taken by Mars orbiters show deposits of relatively dark dust extending outward from Cerberus Fossae in multiple directions. “The darker shade of the dust signifies geological evidence of more recent volcanic activity, …

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CNET

What you’re looking at is evidence of a massive galaxy merger happening 11.5 billion light-years away. ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, D. Wylezalek, A. Vayner & the …

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Astronomy Magazine

Mars is a desert wasteland. But billions of years ago, water flowed across the Red Planet in streams and rivers, pooling into ponds and lakes. An ocean larger than Earth’s Arctic Ocean may have even dominated Mars’ northern hemisphere.

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CNET

Against the background of space, lots of tiny spots represent giant galaxies across the universe. Some 270 million light-years from Earth, two galaxies are on a collision course. And this event has …

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Phys.Org

To guide the design and synthesis of electrocatalysts toward highly efficient oxygen evolution reactions (OER), researchers from the Beijing University of Chemical Technology have summarized four common strategies to improve the OER performance of …

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Scientific American

A powerful eye in the sky is helping scientists spy “super-emitters” of methane, a greenhouse gas about 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide. That observer is NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation instrument, or EMIT for short.

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