Mark Thompson
National-Security Analyst at Project On Government Oversight
Pulitzer Prize-winner Mark Thompson, a national-security analyst at the Project On Government Oversight, has spent 45+ years writing about the U.S. military.
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phys.org | Mark Thompson |Gaby Clark |Robert Egan
The hunt for habitable worlds has become a hot topic in astronomy. For decades, the search has been focused on planets in the "Goldilocks zone"; that narrow band around a star where water stays liquid, not too hot to boil away, not too cold to freeze solid.
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phys.org | Mark Thompson |Sadie Harley |Robert Egan
Betelgeuse is one of the most well-known stars in the night sky. Located about 640 light years from Earth in the constellation Orion, it's a red supergiant nearing the end of its life, destined to explode as a supernova. It's now over 700 times the size of the sun and has captivated astronomers with its unpredictable brightness.
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phys.org | Mark Thompson |Gaby Clark |Robert Egan
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), launched by NASA in 2005, is orbiting Mars tasked with studying its atmosphere, surface, and subsurface in unprecedented detail. Equipped with a suite of advanced instruments—including high-resolution cameras, spectrometers, and the SHAllow RADar (SHARAD) MRO has revolutionized our understanding of Martian geology, climate history, and potential water reservoirs beneath the surface.
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phys.org | Mark Thompson |Gaby Clark |Robert Egan
Asteroids are the ancient remnants of our solar system's birth, rocky fragments that never formed into planets. Most of these celestial wanderers inhabit the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, where Jupiter's immense gravitational influence prevents them from assembling into a single world. Ranging from house-sized boulders to Ceres, a dwarf planet nearly 1,000 kilometers across, asteroids preserve pristine records of the early solar system's composition and conditions.
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universetoday.com | Mark Thompson
Asteroids are the ancient remnants of our Solar System's birth, rocky fragments that never formed into planets. Most of these celestial wanderers inhabit the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, where Jupiter's immense gravitational influence prevented them from assembling into a single world. Ranging from house-sized boulders to Ceres, a dwarf planet nearly 1,000 kilometres across, asteroids preserve pristine records of the early Solar System's composition and conditions.
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