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Is Triton Hiding an Underground Ocean?

September 7, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Voyager 2 mosaic of Neptune’s largest moon, Triton (NASA) At 1,680 miles (2,700 km) across, the frigid and wrinkled Triton is Neptune’s largest moon and the seventh largest in the Solar System. It orbits the planet backwards – that is, in the opposite [...]

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Is Earth Alive? Scientists Seek Sulfur For An Answer

May 16, 2012

Researchers at the University of Maryland have discovered a way to identify and track sulfuric compounds in Earth’s marine environment, opening a path to either refute or support a decades-old hypothesis that our planet can be compared to a singular, self-regulating, living organism — a.k.a. the Gaia theory. Remove this ad

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