Antarctica is exceptional. The coldest, windiest, iciest, driest, and most remote of continents is widely celebrated for its rich history of exploration, science and diplomacy and for its exceptional beauty. However, fishing pressure - mostly for krill and toothfish - combined with cumulative impacts of climate change, jeopardizes the future ...
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Planet Mixology: Stirring the Mantle of Water WorldsWater worlds are exoplanets ranging in size between Earth and Neptune that are predicted to be rich in water. The interior structure of a water world is assumed to have distinct layers: (1) iron core, (2) rocky mantle, and (3) water. This 3-layer model may work in smaller planets where ...
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NASA's New Horizons Mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt With its 2015 flyby and first up-close look at a new class of small icy planet, the New Horizons mission ushered in a new era of planetary geology for the Pluto system. A second flyby of the small Kuiper belt object Arrokoth at the start of 2019 did the same ...
