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Phobos, one of the Martian moons, may actually hold key information about what Mars was like in the past, according to new research, because it was right in the path of the Martian atmosphere as it escaped out into space.
Could the Surface of Phobos Reveal Secrets of the Martian Past? The Martian moon Phobos orbits through a stream of charged atoms and molecules that flow off the Red Planet’s atmosphere, new research shows. Many of these charged particles, or ions, of oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and argon, have been escaping Mars for billions of years as the planet has been shedding its atmosphere. Some ions, scientists predict, have been smashing into the surface of Phobos and could be preserved in its uppermost layer, according to a paper published on Feb. 1 in the journal Nature Geoscience. This means that ...
Press release content from Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Waldrop Leads $75 Million NASA Mission to Investigate Earth’s Atmosphere January 28, 2021 GMT Lara Waldrop, assistant professor of electrical & computer engineering, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - January 28, 2021 - ( Newswire.com ) University of Illinois Electrical & Computer Engineering Assistant Professor Lara Waldrop has been selected by NASA to lead the development of a $75 million satellite that ultimately may help protect technology like satellite electronics, radio communication, elec...
E-Mail IMAGE: The giant flare, cataloged as GRB 200415A, reached detectors on different NASA spacecraft at different times. Each instrument pair established its possible location in different swaths of the sky, but... view more Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona On April 15, 2020, a brief burst of high-energy light swept through the solar system, triggering instruments on several NASA and European spacecraft. Now, multiple international science teams conclude that the blast came from a supermagnetized stellar remn...
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