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Sulfur Atmospheres, 3D Exoplanet Maps & Perseverance Breaks Mars Record
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James Webb Space Telescope finds sulfur in impossible giant planet atmospheres, overturning core accretion models — plus a first-ever 3D atmospheric map of an exoplanet and Perseverance shattering Mars rover distance records. Three breakthroughs, one episode.
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Astronomers have confirmed sulfur in the atmospheres of giant planets that, by the old models, shouldn't exist at all. That's the clearest signal from the latest round of James Webb Space Telescope data, and it redraws what we thought we knew about how planets form.
Meanwhile, a separate team has done something that sounds simple but wasn't. They mapped the atmosphere of a distant gas giant in three dimensions.
Closer to home, Perseverance made history on October eleventh. The rover crossed twenty-eight point one miles on Mars, surpassing the record set by Opportunity, which took fifteen years to accumulate.
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