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Ice production on the hottest planet in our solar system

Water is crucial to life on Earth. It is also present on other planets and solar system bodies. Indeed, ground-based radar observations and space probe data indicated the presence of frozen water ice even on Mercury, the hottest planet in our solar system! Water, in... click to read more

Brant M. Jones | Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Menelaos Sarantos | Professor at Heliophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, USA

Thomas M. Orlando | Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

water cycle

Mercury Ice

Water Formation

Polar Ice

Solar Wind

Reading time 4 min

published on May 28, 2021

When did land appear over water (and why does it matter)?

When Yuri Gagarin first saw the earth from the space in 1961 it looked as a blue-yellow planet with white clouds, a fragile view that was reinforced by the American astronauts who saw the Earth from the moon. The blue aquaplanet, completely covered with water... click to read more

Ilya Bindeman | Professor at University of Oregon, USA and University of Geneva, Switzerland

oxygen

land emergence

water cycle

Reading time 4 min

published on Feb 12, 2019