Tag: planetary science
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How loud is a rock in a Mars rover wheel?
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] How does sound travel on Mars? The Curiosity rover is scraping a rock along in its wheels, but what would that actually sound like to our ears? For Astronomy…
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Ice volcanoes (and other mysteries) on Pluto!
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Does Pluto Have Ice Volcanoes? That’s what some scientists believe. And it might have a heart, too For The Daily Beast: At the 47th Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS)…
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A tribute to a great African-American planetary scientist
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Meet Claudia Alexander, NASA Badass Who Never Got Her Due In a field dominated by white men, Claudia Alexander was a pioneer For The Daily Beast: Comet 67P/Churyumov—Gerasimenko is…
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Traces of salty water on Mars … and more mysteries!
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Water Found on Mars Could Be First Signs of Martian Life NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter found traces of water that comes and goes on Mars—aka flowing water For The…
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Pluto: what’s in a name?
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Pluto and Other Truly Epic Space Photos For The Daily Beast: To quote another great space adventurer: “Almost there!” The New Horizons probe, launched in 2006, will finally reach…
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Blogging about science for Forbes Magazine
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] As of this week, I will be blogging regularly for Forbes on planetary science, climate change, physics, and math. My first two posts are up; go check them out…
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A possible ocean like ours on the moon Europa
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Europa’s Salty Sea My first contribution to the brand-new magazine Hakai: You can find bits and pieces of Earth seemingly scattered around the solar system. The surface of Mars…
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Bathing asteroids with nuclear weapons
[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] A gentle nudge with a nuke: deflecting Earth-bound asteroids From Ars Technica: In 2013, a small asteroid exploded in the atmosphere over Chelyabinsk, Russia. The sonic boom from the…
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A space robot arrives at a new world: Dawn at Ceres
Sunday is my birthday, and NASA kindly decided to give me a whole asteroid. I got to write about it for The Daily Beast. NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft Made It to Dwarf Planet Ceres From The Daily Beast: When I was young, I obsessively read through a National Geographic science book called Our Universe, a good…
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Methane on Mars: life or just gas?
[ I am reviving the Bowler Hat Science blog as a quick way to link all my new publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all my stories! ] Methane on Mars: life or just gas? From The Daily Beast: Methane is a familiar chemical, whether you know it by that name or…
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