Another 21 essays review recent developments in such areas of Earth
planetary science as atmospheric escape and the evolution of close-in exoplanets, the destruction of the North China Craton in the Mesozoic, global patterns of carbon dioxide variability from satellite observations, soil functions: connecting Earth's critical zone, marsh processes and their response to climate change and sea-level rise, and exoplanet clouds.
The paper, published in Earth and
Planetary Science Letters, has important implications in the fields of geochemistry and geophysics.
The team's paper appeared December 11th in Meteoritics &
Planetary Science,
The new research, published in the journal Meteoritics &
Planetary Science, suggests that Earth's atmosphere is a better shield from meteoroids than previously thought.
Nozair Khawaja a PhD from the University of Heidelberg and is currently a Postdoc Researcher on
Planetary Science by Space Missions at the Institute of Earth Sciences at the University of Heidelberg on Friday from 7 p.m to 9 p.m at ITU auditorium of Arfa Software Technology Park, 6th floor, Lahore.
ExtremeTech reports that the proposal was made during a NASA talk at the recently concluded
Planetary Science Vision 2050 Workshop.
Even if they are approved and funded, a long hiatus in what has been the rapidly advancing field of
planetary science is about to begin.
"We now know Mars was once a planet very much like Earth with warm salty seas and fresh water lakes,"
Planetary Science Director at NASA Jim Green said at a news conference.
Odyssey, which discovered widespread water ice just beneath the surface of the Red Planet, is still going strong today, serving as a key communications relay for NASA's Mars rovers and making continued contributions to
planetary science.