pomarede, 3 months ago to Life

🚨 News from the Kuiper Belt

SwRI scientists find evidence of geothermal processes producing methane from within icy dwarf planets Eris and Makemake

➡️ press release https://swri.org/press-release/swri-scientists-find-evidence-of-geothermal-activity-within-icy-dwarf-planets

➡️ Icarus paper https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2024.115999

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pomarede, 4 months ago to space

Io, Jupiter's moon, half illuminated by the sunshine (on the right), and half illuminated by the jupitershine (on the left).

https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing?id=15938

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS
Image processing by Emma Wälimäki

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astronomywriter, 11 months ago to Astronomy

First Ultraviolet Data Collected by JUICE Mission to Jupiter

https://www.swri.org/press-release/first-ultraviolet-data-collected-esas-juice-mission

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