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Earth and Planetary Sciences

Dr. Flores on Tara
05.09.2016

Scientists aboard the TARA investigate marine ecology

Proxima Centauri b
24.08.2016

Weizmann Institute of Science researcher is a part of the team that discovered a planet with an Earth-like mass orbiting in the habitable zone of...

artist's illustration: JUNO
30.06.2016

Dr. Yohai Kaspi is part of the Juno Science team that hopes to answer some burning questions about the largest planet in the Solar System...

alagal bloom in the North Sea
13.07.2015

Sea breezes may play an unwitting role in the decimation of giant algal blooms

Illustration of Saturn
26.03.2015

A new mathematical formula can reveal how fast a planet is rotating

SpaceIL
26.02.2015
SpaceIL and the Weizmann Institute will host an online space trivia game leading up to...
Microbes Take their Sulfur Light
18.11.2014

A model explaining the preferences of deep-sea microbes can help reveal the ancient past – as well as predict the future

A satellite image of Olympus Mons, Mars, the largest volcano in the solar system at about three times the height of Mount Everest. Around 3.5 to 4.0 billion years ago, the release of volcanic gases, especially the greenhouse gas sulfur-dioxide, may have warmed the surface of Mars episodically, thereby explaining the presence of geomorphological features indicative of the flow of water on the planet's ancient surface
18.11.2014

A new model suggests volcanic activity in Mars’ distant past spewed enough greenhouse gases to warm the atmosphere and melt the ice
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