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Extreme Weather Variability on Hot Rocky Exoplanet 55 Cancri e Explained by Magma Temperature-Cloud Feedback
Kaitlyn Loftus, Yangcheng Luo, Bowen Fan +1
Observations of the hot rocky exoplanet 55 Cancri e report significant but unexplained variability in brightness across visible and infrared bands, e.g., on sub-weekly timescales,…
Mars' Young Sedimentary Rocks: Early thinning, late persistence, diachronous boundaries, and a regional dichotomy
Madison L. Turner, Sabrina Y. Khan, Kevin W. Lewis +2
Mars' sedimentary rocks record Gyrs of environmental change. New data enable the first global analysis of paleo-environment relevant physical properties of these rocks, including l…
The transmission spectrum of the potentially rocky planet L 98-59 c
Thomas Barclay, Kyle B. Sheppard, Natasha Latouf +32
We present observations of the 1.35+/-0.07 Earth-radius planet L 98-59 c, collected using Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope. L 98-59 is a nearby (10.6 pc), bright (…
Feasibility of keeping Mars warm with nanoparticles
Samaneh Ansari, Edwin S. Kite, Ramses Ramirez +2
One-third of Mars' surface has shallow-buried HO, but it is currently too cold for use by life. Proposals to warm Mars using greenhouse gases require a large mass of ingredient…