20 September 2018
TESS finds its first exoplanet – a super-Earth 60 light years away
... Capricornus to Pictor. This swath of the sky’s southern hemisphere includes more than a dozen stars (aside from Pi Mensae) that astronomers already know have transiting planets based on previous studies from ground observatories. “In a sea of stars...
01 April 2019
First independent confirmation of methane on Mars
... for this burst is along a fault line in the bed rock which lies between a region known as Aeolis Mensae on one side and the Medusae Fossae Formation on the other. Under this area lies shallow layers...
