Astronomy - USA (2019-09)

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Mars, Pluto, and an array of icy moons offer possible places where microbial life might have existed — or might yet exist today. ...

SYSTEM of speculation about its potential for life. Space missions put an end to science fic- tion thoughts about martian creatu ...

Is there life on ? Life in the SOLAR SYSTEM ...

Earth’s neighbor once had a climate conducive to life. Now scientists are trying to learn if the Red Planet turned those chances ...

26 ASTRONOMY • SEPTEMBER 2019 systems that could have nurtured sub- terranean habitable environments. The presence of relatively ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 27 oxidizing compound — identified as perchlorate by the 2008 Phoenix Mars lander team — that also breaks down ...

28 ASTRONOMY • SEPTEMBER 2019 exciting discoveries about the history of specific watery environments on Mars. In fact, some of t ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 29 suggesting the environment would have been habitable over significant amounts of geologic time. Again, howe ...

LIFE ON How we might find Life in the SOLAR SYSTEM A CONCEPT FOR A EUROPA LANDER samples the moon’s surface in this artist’s ren ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 31 EUROPA, ONE OF JUPITER’S four Galilean moons, is not the most wel- coming place. On the surface, daytime te ...

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Hydrothermal vents Liquid ocean Ocean currents Ice Ice fractures Diapirs Surface Plume Deposited material from plume Ice blocks ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 35 in ice. To that end, Nadeau and her team have taken their test instruments to extreme locations in the Arct ...

1° AQUARIUS PISCES q r h s s s Neptune N E The giants of the solar system take center stage this month. While Jupiter and Sat ...

WWW.ASTRONOMY.COM 37 RISING MOON I A terrific trio of terraced craters THE WAXING CRESCENT MOON offers a smorgasbord of fantasti ...

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