Smithsonian-led researchers mapped over 10,000 young lunar faults and estimate the moon shrank about 45 meters over 400 to 800 million years. Because the moon is a single plate, the faults are spread across its surface and moonquakes can start anywhere.
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Simulated early Mars rain drops about 10 times the average formaldehyde on Tharsis and Elysium
Tohoku University researchers and colleagues modelled early Mars's formaldehyde rain, putting about 10 times the global average on Tharsis and Elysium. The prediction links where a raw material for sugars and amino acids landed to the planet's ancient water cycle.
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Brookhaven imaging turns a few of Murchison's organic formulas into actual structures
The MagLab's 21-tesla spectrometer found tens of thousands of carbon-based molecules in two meteorites, and noncontact atomic force microscopy at Brookhaven pinned down the shape of a handful of them.
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A Greenland comparison puts liquid nitrogen under Pluto's dark glacier streaks
The evidence for seeping nitrogen on Sputnik Planitia is a resemblance to wet ice in Landsat 9 images of Greenland, backed by simulations in which nitrogen ice several kilometers down melts and rises.
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Reprocessing 35 years of Pluto occultations turns up a 16 percent pressure drop in the lower atmosphere
Amanda Sickafoose's team ran every Pluto stellar occultation from 1988 to 2023 through one analysis, so a change in the record could not be an artifact of who processed it. The 2022 and 2023 data show pressure falling.
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Webb finds carbon dioxide lifting dust from a centaur that Saturn rerouted in 1992
Schambeau's team reports carbon dioxide emission with no water or carbon monoxide around 450P/LONEOS, which points to gas escaping warming buried ice, while the Saturn encounter behind it remains an orbital reconstruction.
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