Dark Material in Fractures on Europa's Surface Is Sea Salt, New Research Suggests

By Paul Scott Anderson, on May 13th, 2015

The darker-colored material within the fractures and elsewhere on Europa’s surface might be sea salt brought up from the ocean below. Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Ted Stryk

For over a decade, scientists have been curious about the long fractures on Europa’s icy surface and the darker-colored material they contain, as well as other relatively young […]

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New Technique to Study Clouds on Exoplanets Developed by Researchers at MIT

By Paul Scott Anderson, on March 6th, 2015

Artist’s conception of clouds on Kepler-7b. Image Credit: NASA (edited by Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT)

While exoplanets are now being discovered by the thousands, it is still a painstaking process to determine any specific details about them, since they are so incredibly far away. However, astronomers have been devising new techniques to do just that, […]

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