Scientific Reports

Collection 13 February 2023

Editor's choice: planetary & solar system science

This collection brings together research on bodies that span the astronomical size spectrum, from meteors to planetary giants. Work on both space exploration and the potential for sustenance of life is presented.

Earth & Moon

Distribution of water phase near the poles of the Moon from gravity aspects
- Gunther Kletetschka
- Jaroslav Klokočník
- Kurosh Karimi
ArticleOpen Access16 Mar 2022 Scientific Reports
LZS-1, Lanzarote (Canary Island, Spain) lunar (Apollo 14) basaltic soil simulant
- Fernando Alberquilla
- Jesús Martínez-Frías
- Rosario Lunar
ArticleOpen Access1 Oct 2022 Scientific Reports
The three-dimensional plasma structures and flows of the Earth’s upper atmosphere due to the Moon’s gravitational force
- Jann-Yenq Liu
- Tsung-Yu Wu
- Loren C. Chang
ArticleOpen Access5 Dec 2022 Scientific Reports
Mineralogical and chemical properties inversed from 21-lunar-day VNIS observations taken during the Chang’E-4 mission
- Qinghong Zeng
- Shengbo Chen
- Peng Lu
ArticleOpen Access29 Jul 2021 Scientific Reports
A global network model of abiotic phosphorus cycling on Earth through time
- Marcos Jusino-Maldonado
- Rafael Rianço-Silva
- H. James Cleaves II
ArticleOpen Access7 Jun 2022 Scientific Reports
Properties of the lunar gravity assisted transfers from LEO to the retrograde-GEO
- Bo-yong He
- Peng-bin Ma
- Heng-nian Li
ArticleOpen Access22 Sep 2021 Scientific Reports

Mars

Evidence of an oceanic impact and megatsunami sedimentation in Chryse Planitia, Mars
- J. Alexis P. Rodriguez
- Darrel K. Robertson
- Mario Zarroca
ArticleOpen Access1 Dec 2022 Scientific Reports
The formation of araneiforms by carbon dioxide venting and vigorous sublimation dynamics under martian atmospheric pressure
- Lauren Mc Keown
- J. N. McElwaine
- M. R. Patel
ArticleOpen Access19 Mar 2021 Scientific Reports
Absence of increased genomic variants in the cyanobacterium Chroococcidiopsis exposed to Mars-like conditions outside the space station
- Alessandro Napoli
- Diego Micheletti
- Daniela Billi
ArticleOpen Access19 May 2022 Scientific Reports
Transcriptional response to prolonged perchlorate exposure in the methanogen Methanosarcina barkeri and implications for Martian habitability
- Rachel L. Harris
- Andrew C. Schuerger
- Tullis C. Onstott
ArticleOpen Access11 Jun 2021 Scientific Reports
ExoFiT trial at the Atacama Desert (Chile): Raman detection of biomarkers by representative prototypes of the ExoMars/Raman Laser Spectrometer
- Marco Veneranda
- Guillermo Lopez-Reyes
- Fernando Rull
ArticleOpen Access14 Jan 2021 Scientific Reports
From machine learning to transfer learning in laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy analysis of rocks for Mars exploration
- Chen Sun
- Weijie Xu
- Jin Yu
ArticleOpen Access1 Nov 2021 Scientific Reports

Asteroids, Comets & Meteorites

Organic matter and water from asteroid Itokawa
- Q. H. S. Chan
- A. Stephant
- M. M. Grady
ArticleOpen Access4 Mar 2021 Scientific Reports
Exocomets size distribution in the \(\beta\) Pictoris planetary system
- Alain Lecavelier des Etangs
- Lucie Cros
- Alfred Vidal-Madjar
ArticleOpen Access28 Apr 2022 Scientific Reports
Unique evidence of fluid alteration in the Kakowa (L6) ordinary chondrite
- I. P. Baziotis
- C. Ma
- P. D. Asimow
ArticleOpen Access12 Apr 2022 Scientific Reports
3D porosity structure of the earliest solar system material
- Romy D. Hanna
- Richard A. Ketcham
- Josh O’Connell
ArticleOpen Access19 May 2022 Scientific Reports
Nano-FTIR spectroscopic identification of prebiotic carbonyl compounds in Dominion Range 08006 carbonaceous chondrite
- Mehmet Yesiltas
- Timothy D. Glotch
- Bogdan Sava
ArticleOpen Access2 Jun 2021 Scientific Reports
Correlated iron isotopes and silicon contents in aubrite metals reveal structure of their asteroidal parent body
- Soumya Ray
- Laurence A. J. Garvie
- Meenakshi Wadhwa
ArticleOpen Access19 Nov 2021 Scientific Reports

Planetary Evolution

The first assimilation of Akatsuki single-layer winds and its validation with Venusian atmospheric waves excited by solar heating
- Yukiko Fujisawa
- Shin-ya Murakami
- Yoshi-Yuki Hayashi
ArticleOpen Access26 Aug 2022 Scientific Reports
Numerous chondritic impactors and oxidized magma ocean set Earth’s volatile depletion
- Haruka Sakuraba
- Hiroyuki Kurokawa
- Kenji Ohta
ArticleOpen Access22 Oct 2021 Scientific Reports
Miscibility of rock and ice in the interiors of water worlds
- Tanja Kovačević
- Felipe González-Cataldo
- Burkhard Militzer
ArticleOpen Access29 Jul 2022 Scientific Reports
Alien suns reversing in exoplanet skies
- Xinchen Xie
- Hwan Bae
- John F. Lindner
ArticleOpen Access19 May 2022 Scientific Reports
Dynamic compression of water to conditions in ice giant interiors
- A. E. Gleason
- D. R. Rittman
- W. L. Mao
ArticleOpen Access13 Jan 2022 Scientific Reports
Resistivity of solid and liquid Fe–Ni–Si with applications to the cores of Earth, Mercury and Venus
- Meryem Berrada
- Richard A. Secco
- Wenjun Yong
ArticleOpen Access15 Jun 2022 Scientific Reports

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