Tag: planetary science

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Venus Holds a Mirror to Our Own World

Look up on a clear twilight sky, and you will likely spot the brightest point of light after the sun and moon. For millennia, humans have pointed at it and called it a harbinger of

The Lab That Taught Humanity to Aim for the Stars

There is a peculiar stretch of land nestled in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in Pasadena, California. It does not look like the birthplace of the space age. There are

Saturn’s South Pole Holds a Warm Secret

Most people who know Saturn’s poles know the northern one. It is famous for a six-sided jet stream, a shape so strange that early observers half-joked about whether it was an optic

Saturn's South Pole: The Bizarre Eye at the Bottom of the Solar System's Ringed Giant

Most people who picture Saturn imagine golden bands of ice and rock, maybe a few moons drifting nearby. Few think about what's happening at the planet's extreme south — and that's