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Surveying the Building Blocks of the Solar System

This blog post originated in the 2018 Science Mission Directorate Science and Technology Report. PROJECT High-Performance In Situ Dust Analyzer (Hyperdust) KEY POINTS Hyperdust’s unique ion optics design combines the ability to provide high-performance composition measurements with the aperture that is needed to detect a statistically significant number of particles in space over a...

With Mars Methane Mystery Unsolved, Curiosity Serves Scientists a New One: Oxygen

Portal origin URL: With Mars Methane Mystery Unsolved, Curiosity Serves Scientists a New One: OxygenPortal origin nid: 454935Published: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 - 10:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Scientists noticed something baffling on Mars: oxygen, the gas many Earth creatures use to breathe, behaves in a way that so far no one can explain...