A mesma paisagem marciana pode parecer diferente consoante a câmara, a distância e o ângulo de observação. Uma rara experiência envolvendo duas sondas permitiu a comparação e pode ajudar a garantir que uma delas está pronta para a longa viagem que tem pela frente.

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Planetary researchers have found the first evidence that bursts of energetic particles from the Sun could warm the lower atmosphere of Mars during massive dust storms, hinting at an unexpected link between space weather and Martian climate.

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A head-on collision with another galaxy billions of years ago may have dramatically reoriented the Milky Way’s disk, according to new supercomputer simulations that reveal how violent mergers can leave spiral galaxies looking surprisingly normal today.

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After decades of searching, astronomers have pinpointed the first of an estimated 10,000 stellar-mass black holes thought to lurk in Omega Centauri, the most massive stellar system in the Milky Way found so far, with a stellar mass of 3.6 million solar masses.

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