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Are There Terrestrial Planets Lurking in the Outer Solar System?
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2023 Motivated by recent measurements of the free-floating-planet mass function at terrestrial masses, we consider the possibility that the solar system may have captured a terrestrial planet early in its history.
Amir Siraj
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Atmosphere, 2021 Electrification represents a fundamental process in planetary atmospheres, widespread in the Solar System. The atmospheres of the terrestrial planets (Venus, Earth, and Mars) range from thin to thick are rich in heavier gases and gaseous compounds, such ...
Marija Radmilović-Radjenović +2 more
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Surrounded by Giants: Habitable Zone Stability Within the HD 141399 System
The Astronomical Journal, 2023 The search for exoplanets has revealed a diversity of planetary system architectures, the vast majority of which diverge significantly from the template of the solar system.
Stephen R. Kane
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Observations of Locally Generated Whistler-mode Waves in the Martian Magnetotail Current Sheet
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 The whistler-mode wave is an electromagnetic wave that commonly occurs in space plasma and has been extensively studied, especially within the Earth's magnetosphere. They have also been reported in the near-Mars space, such as Martian upstream solar wind,
Xiao Ma +6 more
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Terrestrial planet and asteroid belt formation by Jupiter–Saturn chaotic excitation
Scientific Reports, 2023 The terrestrial planets formed by accretion of asteroid-like objects within the inner solar system’s protoplanetary disk. Previous works have found that forming a small-mass Mars requires the disk to contain little mass beyond ~ 1.5 au (i.e., the disk ...
Patryk Sofia Lykawka, Takashi Ito
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The Dynamical Consequences of a Super-Earth in the Solar System
The Planetary Science Journal, 2023 Placing the architecture of the solar system within the broader context of planetary architectures is one of the primary topics of interest within planetary science. Exoplanet discoveries have revealed a large range of system architectures, many of which
Stephen R. Kane
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The Planetary Science Journal, 2023 The discovery of global elemental volatile compositions, sublimation hollows, and chaotic terrains has significantly reshaped our understanding of Mercury’s geology.
J. Alexis P. Rodriguez +11 more
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The Planetary Science Journal, 2023 Outgassing is a central process during the formation and evolution of terrestrial planets and their atmospheres both within and beyond the solar system.
Maggie A. Thompson +7 more
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Terrestrial planet compositions controlled by accretion disk magnetic field
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 2021 Terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars) are differentiated into three layers: a metallic core, a silicate shell (mantle and crust), and a volatile envelope of gases, ices, and, for the Earth, liquid water.
William F. McDonough, Takashi Yoshizaki
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Overview of electric solar wind sail applications; pp. 267–278 [PDF]
Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, 2014 We analyse the potential of the electric solar wind sail for solar system space missions. The applications studied include flyby missions to terrestrial planets (Venus, Mars and Phobos, Mercury) and asteroids, missions based on non-Keplerian orbits ...
Pekka Janhunen +8 more
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