Inner planets articles within Nature Physics

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• Editorial | 02 January 2019

  Earthly powers

  A careful analysis of data obtained from the IceCube telescope in Antarctica shows that atmospheric neutrinos can be used as a tomographic probe of the Earth.

• News & Views | 05 November 2018

  Made visible by the invisible

  Using data from the IceCube telescope, a study presents the first attempt at obtaining geophysical information about Earth’s internal structure from the flux of neutrinos that pass through it.

  • Véronique Van Elewyck

• Letter | 05 November 2018

  Neutrino tomography of Earth

  Geophysical properties of the Earth’s interior have been inferred by looking at the absorption of neutrinos as they pass through our planet.

  • Andrea Donini
  • , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz
  •  & Jordi Salvado

• Letter | 11 April 2016

  In situ observations of waves in Venus’s polar lower thermosphere with Venus Express aerobraking

  The final stage of the Venus Express mission involved aerobraking — or deceleration by atmospheric drag — through the upper atmosphere above the northern pole of Venus. Concurrent measurements revealed two kinds of waves.

  • Ingo C. F. Müller-Wodarg
  • , Sean Bruinsma
  •  & Håkan Svedhem

• News & Views | 01 December 2013

  Subsurface air flow on Mars

  When the atmospheric surface pressure is just right, a temperature difference can drive a continuous flow of rarefied gas through the soil matrix — a previously unrecognized process on Mars.

  • Norbert Schörghofer

• Letter | 01 December 2013

  The martian soil as a planetary gas pump

  Microgravity experiments on a dust bed in a ‘drop tower’ set-up reveal the ability of martian soil to act as an efficient gas pump when heated by the Sun.

  • Caroline de Beule
  • , Gerhard Wurm
  •  & Jens Teiser