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New Light on the Solar System (September 2003)
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Cover; New Light on the Solar System; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
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The Paradox of the Sun's Hot Corona; New Light on the Solar System; by Bhola N. Dwivedi and Kenneth J.H. Phillips; 8 Page(s)
Like a boiling teakettle atop a cold stove, the sun's hot outer layers sit on the relatively cool surface. And now astronomers are figuring out why
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Mercury: The Forgotten Planet; New Light on the Solar System; by Robert M. Nelson; 8 Page(s)
Although one of Earth's nearest neighbors, this strange world remains, for the most part, unknown
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Global Climate Change on Venus; New Light on the Solar System; by Mark A. Bullock and David H. Grinspoon; 8 Page(s)
Venus's climate, like Earth's, has varied over time - the result of newly appreciated connections between geologic activity and atmospheric change
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The Origins of Water on Earth; New Light on the Solar System; by James F. Kasting; 6 Page(s)
Evidence is mounting that other planets hosted oceans at one time, but only Earth has maintained its watery endowment
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The Small Planets; New Light on the Solar System; by Erik Asphaug; 10 Page(s)
Asteroids have become notorious as celestial menaces but are best appreciated in a positive light, as surreal worlds bearing testimony to the origin of the planets
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The Galileo Mission to Jupiter and Its Moons; New Light on the Solar System; by Torrence V. Johnson; 10 Page(s)
Galileo spacecraft, beset by technical troubles, still conducted a comprehensive study of the Jovian system. Few predicted that the innards of these worlds would prove so varied
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The Hidden Ocean of Europa; New Light on the Solar System; by Robert T. Pappalardo, James W. Head and Ronald Greeley; 10 Page(s)
Doodles and freckles, creamy plains and crypto-icebergs - the amazing surface of Jupiter's brightest icy moon hints at a global sea underneath
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Bejeweled Worlds; New Light on the Solar System; by Joseph A. Burns, Douglas P. Hamilton and Mark R. Showalter; 10 Page(s)
What an impoverished universe it would be if Saturn and the other giant planets lacked rings. Planetary scientists are finally working out how gravity has sculpted these elegant ornaments
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Journey to the Farthest Planet; New Light on the Solar System; by S. Alan Stern; 8 Page(s)
Scientists are finally preparing to send a spacecraft to Pluto and the Kuiper belt, the last unexplored region of our planetary system
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The Oort Cloud; New Light on the Solar System; by Paul R. Weissman; 8 Page(s)
On the outskirts of the solar system swarms a vast cloud of comets, influenced almost as much by other stars as by our sun. The dynamics of this cloud may help explain such matters as mass extinctions on Earth
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