13 March 2015
Ceres breakthrough: NASA's Dawn is first probe to visit a dwarf planet
... salt — not necessarily table salt, but salts of various minerals that may be white in appearance. So we have sort of a dichotomy of opinion in the team as to whether this has a dry or wet explanation. But we'll get to the bottom of this when...
20 March 2017
Scientists challenge how planets are defined
...Discoveries, an educational website founded by scientists at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. Perhaps we will now see a dichotomy between how astronomers and geologists define a planet as Runyon’s proposal is more useful to planetary scientists and...
17 September 2018
Newly discovered vortex on Saturn could be part of a huge towering structure
... to Saturn’s south pole, which although does have a vortex, is not nearly as impressive as its northern counterpart. This dichotomy of designs indicates that the ringed-planet’s two poles behave very differently and that there is much...
11 March 2020
Ultra-hot exoplanet literally rains iron say astronomers
... to be cloud-free and substantially hotter than its nightside, has a different chemistry than its nightside. This dichotomy occurs because free-floating atoms on the dayside recombine into molecules over on the nightside, creating a mix...
