Science for Everyone: Planetary Sciences
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PLANETARY SCIENCES ARTICLES

• Galilean Satellites of Jupiter: New Worlds Revealed - Galileo has provided high-resolution images of the satellites of Jupiter that change our thinking about this miniature solar system.[Earth in Space. Dec 1997]
• Atmosphere of a Gas Giant Planet Directly Sampled for the First Time - After surviving the most difficult atmospheric entry ever attempted, the Galileo probeobtained information about Jupiter below its visible clouds, a region that had been almost completely inaccessible to observation.[Earth in Space. Dec 1997]
• The Partially Watery World of Europa,One of Jupiter's Moons - Recent explorations discover evidence of subsurface water on one of Jupiter's ice-ridden satellites.[Earth in Space. Dec 1997]
• The Mars Pathfinder Mission - [compiled from Eos articles]
• Roving for Rocks on the Red Planet: The Mars Pathfinder Mission - [Eos, December 3, 1996]
• Mission to Mars to Collect a Storehouse of Scientific Data - [Eos, November 5, 1996]
• Near-Earth Asteroid Mission Travels to 433 Eros - The NEAR spacecraft is on its way to an asteroid named for the god of love. Once it arrives in 1999, scientists expect to learn about the role asteroids played in forming our solar system as well as the physics and chemistry of the solar system bodies that hit and left their marks on the surfaces and atmospheres of all the planets.[Earth in Space. May 1996]
• Jupiter's Weather Defies Predictions - The weather report is in from Jupiter, and the skies seem to be hotter, windier, drier, and clearer—but much less electric—than most forecasters predicted. [Earth in Space. March 1996]
• A Beginner's Guide to the Earth's Magnetosphere [Earth in Space. March 1996]
• Scientists, Educators Prepare for Mars Pathfinder Mission - Mars scientists, engineers, and 13 K-12 educators explore terrain similar to the kind Mars Pathfinder will encounter on July 4, 1997.[Eos. January 9, 1996]
• Igniting Interest in Educators and Students: Focus on Mars Pathfinder - Participant in the Mars Pathfinder Landing Site Workshop describes partnership between scientists, engineers in eastern Washington's Channeled Scabland [Eos. January 9, 1996]
• Chicxulub Impact Crater Provides Clues to Earth's History - An extraterrestrial impact 65 million years ago changed the course of life on Earth. The crater it carved in the Earth's surface could now help scientists study past global change. [Earth in Space. December 1995]
• Space Physics and Astronomy Converge in Exploration of Jupiter's Magnetosphere - Our study of Jupiter's magnetosphere has been invigorated by the comet SL-9 impact and by recent advances in Earth-based observations and will be further invigorated by observations made with the Galileo spacecraft as it orbits Jupiter beginning in December 1995. [Earth in Space, October 1995]
• Venus Vignette - Hubble Space Telescope images indicate sulfuric acid rain, sulfur dioxide cloud patterns [Eos. April 4, 1995]
• Mars Mosaic - Hubble Space Telescope shows Mars to be cooler, clearer, and drier than it was two decades ago [Eos. March 28, 1995]
• Unstable Disks Around Stars May Harbor Clues to Origin of Solar System [Eos. January 24, 1995]

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