Dancing Dust on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Editors’ Highlights are summaries of recent papers by AGU’s journal editors. Source: Journal of Geophysical...
Liquid nitrogen could solve astronauts’ moon dust woes
Moon dust is the absolute worst. Not only does electrostatics cause it to cling to...
Mars digger bites the dust after 2 years on red planet
This Dec. 6, 2018 image made available by NASA shows the InSight lander. The scene...
Martian Dust Activities Induce Electrochemistry
Homogenized by global storms, Martian dust contains an abundant amorphous (poorly crystalline) component,...
Dust from Receding Glaciers May Have Major Atmospheric Impacts
In spring 2016 in the remote northern reaches of Yukon, Canada, a glacier...
Saving Lives by Predicting Dust Storms
Sometimes kilometers wide and thousands of meters tall, dust storms look like massive,...
Bacteria can travel from one continent to another in atmospheric dust particles
Figure 1. Sequence of iberulite formation in the atmosphere with bacterial involvement (left) and the...
Sahara’s ‘Godzilla’ dust storm may have been triggered by warming in the Arctic
An enormous dust cloud dubbed "Godzilla" that surged over the Sahara Desert in June and...
Asteroid Ryugu dust delivered to Earth; NASA astrobiologists prepare to probe it
A zoomed-out image of a speck of Murchison meteorite (about 4 micrograms) mounted onto gold...
Japan space agency hails return of asteroid dust on Earth
A JAXA scientist holds the capsule with samples collected from a distant asteroid that were...