planetary
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When high-energy cosmic rays strike a planetary body, they transfer energy to elements at the surface.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
Previous simulations were largely two-dimensional and depended on simplified assumptions about the behavior of planetary materials.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026
The newly confirmed Beta Pictoris d raises the system's known planet count to three, making Beta Pictoris only the second planetary system known to contain at least three imaged planets.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
As we chatted on our way to and from the lobby, I thought about a long-ago Coke business trip—a wartime journey to North Africa—that eventually led to the company’s planetary dominance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
On Mars, and elsewhere in the solar system, we see features that could not be produced today, landscapes carved hundreds of millions or billions of years ago when the planetary climate was probably very different.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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