However, MAVEN, with the Hubble Space Telescope's help, has now found some unanticipated complexity to the story of Mars' water loss. Together, the instruments have shown that the rate of hydrogen loss is seasonal, with large increases in the escape rate at perihelion, which is Mars' closest...
Vernal does not mean new or fresh in Latin. The Latin word for new is nova and the Latin word for fresh is recentibus. Ver means Spring in Latin. According to the Oxford dictionary it evolved over time from Ver (Spring) to Vernus (of the Spring) to Vernalis to Vernal (around the ...
This comet bears the name of the satellite that discovered it on March 27th: NEOWISE, an acronym for Near Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, used to assist NASA’s efforts to identify and characterize the population of near-Earth objects, such as asteroids. And occasionally, as ...