06 October 2017
Volcanic activity gave the early Moon an atmosphere
...that surrounding Mars today. The remains of this ancient frenzied volcanic activity can still be seen on the Moon today as smooth ... that the atmosphere was thickest during the peak in volcanic activity about 3.5 billion years ago and that the maximum ...
December 2014
Motion capture
...monitor our dynamic planet, helping us to predict future volcanic eruptions and understand the distribution of earthquake hazard. I ... frequently and systematically over all the tectonically and volcanically active areas of the planet. The data will be...
04 May 2016
Martian minerals point to subglacial volcanoes
...ice cap are sites that have shapes consistent with volcanic eruptions beneath an ice sheet and although they have... sulfates and clays, that on Earth result from subglacial volcanism. By confirming that these structures are subglacial volcanoes it also...
06 November 2017
Enceladus more active than previously thought
...the planet’s ice moon Enceladus is even more active than initially anticipated. Through observations of plumes ... a common process and is responsible for heating the most volcanically active body in the Solar System: Io. However, this process alone...
December 2014
MAVEN and the evolution of Mars
... delivered water and other ‘volatiles’ in the form of ice, even after the solid planets had formed. Volcanic activity continued to contribute to their atmospheres as well. Hydrogen was likely abundant in these early atmospheres, but the absorption...
January 2016
How to Build Planets
...a super-Earth type planet which appears to exhibit extreme variations in brightness temperature, attributed by some to be characteristic of volcanic activity. 55 Cancri differs from our own Solar System in that the main star has a red dwarf companion...
