Planetary Science Nuggets
Planetary Science Nuggets are powerpoint slides that have been provided to NASA SMD Planetary Science Division by members of the scientific community to highlight important science results or mission activities. A subset of these submissions are selected by the Planetary Science Division to be presented to SMD leadership and, potentially, NASA leadership, OSTP and the White House. This collection represents those selected Nuggets.
2014
An Isolated Microbial World, Deep Under Antarctica
Asteroids mixing throughout the Solar System
Biomarkers Below Planetary Surfaces
Balloon Observation Platform for Planetary Science (BOPPS)
Carbon Dioxide Snowfall on Mars
Evidence of Crusty Impacts on Early Earth
Curiosity Investigates Details About Water in Mars Soil
Did Saturn's Moon Have a Subsurface Global Ocean?
Feldspar-rich Rock Units Identified on Mars
Filled Craters: Evidence of Mantle Material
Object Discovered with the Most Distant Known Orbit in the Solar System
Understanding the Plasma Field Around Jupiter by Looking at Auroras from its Moons
Glass-coated Viruses Thrive in Extreme Environments
Finding Glycine may be an indicator of past life
Early Life Had Limited Raw Materials At Its Disposal
Bound Hydroxide Confirmed on Phobos 7 Deimos
Jupiter's Shrinking Great Red Spot
Characterizing the Lunar Dust Environment: First results from LADEE Dust measurements
Characterizing the Lunar Atmosphere: First results from LADEE Argon measurements
Characterizing the Lunar Atmosphere: First Results From LADEE Sodium Observations
Elements for Life are Universal
Signals for Early Atmospheric Escape from D/H ratios in Mudstones from Gale Crater
Exploring the Solar Wind on the Way to mars with MAVEN
MESSENGER Detects Seasonal Variation of Mercury's Exosphere
MESSENGER Confirms the Equatorial Elipticity and Polar Oblateness for Mercury
MESSENGER Detects Structure and Dynamics of Mercury's Magnetospheric Cusp
MESSENGER and Mariner 10 Magnetic Field Data Shows No Secular variation Over 40 years
Microbes, How Low Can They Go?
Collapsed Craters Provide Evidence for Subsurface Ice on Mars
Radar imagery of Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) 2014 HQ124
Pan-STARRS tracks JAXA's Hayabusa
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) NEOWISE Restart
Opportunity Identifies the Oldest Habitable Environment on Mars
Racing toward Pluto - New Horizons views tiny moon Hydra
Rosetta at Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko
ESA/Rosetta Explores Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Solar Forecast: 1.5 Billion Years of Habitability
Core asymmetry promotes activity in Enceladus' southern hemisphere
A New Global Geologic Map of Mars
Summertime Clouds in Titan's North