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Planetary Geology
Planetary Geology: a planetary science discipline concerned with the geology of the celestial bodies such as the planets and their moons, asteroids, comets, and meteorites. Planetary geology includes such topics as determining the internal structure of the terrestrial planets, and also looks at planetary volcanism and surface processes such as impact craters, fluvial and aeolian processes. The structures of the giant planets and their moons are also examined, as is the make-up of the minor bodies of the solar system, such as asteroids, the Kuiper Belt, and comets.
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OCT 26, 2017Space & Astronomy
Astronomers and planetary scientists alike appear confident about their theories regarding how the solar system’s ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 25, 2017Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Juno probe reached the Jovian system last Summer, exciting scientists with the thought that we might begin ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 11, 2017Space & Astronomy
Mars is one of our closest planetary neighbors, and yet we still have so much to learn about it. One of the questions th ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 10, 2017Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are closely monitoring an asteroid dubbed 2012 TC4, which will make an uncomfortably-close encounter with th ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 06, 2017Space & Astronomy
One of the vital reasons we have observatories floating around in space, such as the Hubble Space Telescope, is that gro ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 04, 2017Videos
SpaceX his hell-bent on sending humans to Mars, but so is one of the commercial space company's most significant competi ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 02, 2017Videos
The International Space Station is an incredible place to take photographs, as many former astronauts have shown. Now, E ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 30, 2017Space & Astronomy
One of the trickiest parts of sending astronauts to the Moon or Mars in the long-term is figuring out where they'll ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 29, 2017Space & Astronomy
Anyone who’s paid any attention to SpaceX over the years knows that Elon Musk, the company’s CEO, has a slig ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 26, 2017Space & Astronomy
Jupiter and many of its moons are of scientific interest to astronomers because they could be full of undiscovered surpr ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 25, 2017Videos
The Earth is always changing, and as millions of years pass, tectonic activity will inevitably shift existing land masse ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 20, 2017Space & Astronomy
China is looking to expand its space program extensively within just the next few years. Not only does the nation expect ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 20, 2017Chemistry & Physics
This fist-sized, glassy rock collected by Micheal Zanetti. Credit: Micheal Zanetti About 38 million years ago, an estima ...Written By: Daniel DuanSEP 18, 2017Space & Astronomy
With only a few decades to come before NASA wants to start putting humankind on Mars to study it in person, the space ag ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 14, 2017Space & Astronomy
NASA’s got a plethora of landers, orbiters, and rovers studying the Martian surface for clues about its environmen ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 12, 2017Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Cassini mission is nearing its end. It’s set to dive into Saturn’s atmosphere on September 15th ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 09, 2017Space & Astronomy
The longstanding question of whether we’re alone in the universe brings up a stressing amount of follow-up questio ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 06, 2017Space & Astronomy
Not only does Uranus rotate almost completely on its side, an abnormal sort of behavior for any planet in our solar syst ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 30, 2017Space & Astronomy
If you were to observe the South pole of Mars, you would see lots of dark spider-shaped landforms known as araneiforms. ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 30, 2017Space & Astronomy
While we know that Saturn has some of the most robust planetary rings of any other planet in the solar system, one thing ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 25, 2017Space & Astronomy
NASA has hyped up the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) since its inception, but only as the telescope nears completion ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 21, 2017Space & Astronomy
Earth and Venus share a lot of qualities with one another, but there are some striking differences that set the two plan ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 16, 2017Videos
People typically think of a 'moon' as a natural secondary object orbiting a planet that orbits a host star. For example, ...Written By: Anthony BouchardAUG 16, 2017Space & Astronomy
TRAPPIST-1 has been somewhat of a cosmic mystery since its deepest and darkest exoplanetary secrets were unveiled earlie ...Written By: Anthony Bouchard
OCT 26, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers and planetary scientists alike appear confident about their theories regarding how the solar system’s
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 25, 2017
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Juno probe reached the Jovian system last Summer, exciting scientists with the thought that we might begin
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 11, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Mars is one of our closest planetary neighbors, and yet we still have so much to learn about it. One of the questions th
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 10, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Astronomers are closely monitoring an asteroid dubbed 2012 TC4, which will make an uncomfortably-close encounter with th
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 06, 2017
Space & Astronomy
One of the vital reasons we have observatories floating around in space, such as the Hubble Space Telescope, is that gro
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 04, 2017
Videos
SpaceX his hell-bent on sending humans to Mars, but so is one of the commercial space company's most significant competi
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 02, 2017
Videos
The International Space Station is an incredible place to take photographs, as many former astronauts have shown. Now, E
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 30, 2017
Space & Astronomy
One of the trickiest parts of sending astronauts to the Moon or Mars in the long-term is figuring out where they'll
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 29, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Anyone who’s paid any attention to SpaceX over the years knows that Elon Musk, the company’s CEO, has a slig
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 26, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Jupiter and many of its moons are of scientific interest to astronomers because they could be full of undiscovered surpr
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 25, 2017
Videos
The Earth is always changing, and as millions of years pass, tectonic activity will inevitably shift existing land masse
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 20, 2017
Space & Astronomy
China is looking to expand its space program extensively within just the next few years. Not only does the nation expect
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 20, 2017
Chemistry & Physics
This fist-sized, glassy rock collected by Micheal Zanetti. Credit: Micheal Zanetti About 38 million years ago, an estima
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
SEP 18, 2017
Space & Astronomy
With only a few decades to come before NASA wants to start putting humankind on Mars to study it in person, the space ag
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 14, 2017
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s got a plethora of landers, orbiters, and rovers studying the Martian surface for clues about its environmen
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 12, 2017
Space & Astronomy
NASA’s Cassini mission is nearing its end. It’s set to dive into Saturn’s atmosphere on September 15th
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 09, 2017
Space & Astronomy
The longstanding question of whether we’re alone in the universe brings up a stressing amount of follow-up questio
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 06, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Not only does Uranus rotate almost completely on its side, an abnormal sort of behavior for any planet in our solar syst
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 30, 2017
Space & Astronomy
If you were to observe the South pole of Mars, you would see lots of dark spider-shaped landforms known as araneiforms.
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 30, 2017
Space & Astronomy
While we know that Saturn has some of the most robust planetary rings of any other planet in the solar system, one thing
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 25, 2017
Space & Astronomy
NASA has hyped up the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) since its inception, but only as the telescope nears completion
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 21, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Earth and Venus share a lot of qualities with one another, but there are some striking differences that set the two plan
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 16, 2017
Videos
People typically think of a 'moon' as a natural secondary object orbiting a planet that orbits a host star. For example,
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
AUG 16, 2017
Space & Astronomy
TRAPPIST-1 has been somewhat of a cosmic mystery since its deepest and darkest exoplanetary secrets were unveiled earlie
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard