While the nearly perpendicular tilt of Uranus’s spin axis could have been caused by a giant impact, the origin of the satellites’ similarly tilted orbits remains unclear. Current hypotheses include formation from debris produced by the tilting…
Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) | Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
Topics: Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences- Correction for Zhou et al., Warming substantially amplifies Antarctic coastal polynyas as key carbon sinks
- Correction for Brown et al., Deuterated water and the formation of the satellites of Uranus
- Direct dating of 3.5 Ga biogenic carbon in a microbial mat remnant, Singhbhum Craton, India
- Coreless exoplanets induced by metal–silicate miscibility
- The distribution and origin of Mercury’s crustal magnetization
- Near-total loss of buttressing stresses observed on Pine Island Ice Shelf, West Antarctica
- Strong human fingerprint on low snowpack amid increasing volatility
- Contrasting marine and terrestrial responses of South Asian summer monsoon system caused by hemispheric insolation
- The origin and development of the Miocene northwest African savanna
- A transient global warming event during Earth’s penultimate icehouse
