Earth Commission Report1 provides major new insights into the potential for the transgression of Earth-system boundaries ...

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Understanding how and when Earth, Jupiter, other planets in the Solar System ... As Research Topics are multidisciplinary, they are cross-listed in several fields and section journals – increasing ...

The samples also come from a unique time in Mars history, Schmidt says, when the internal dynamics of the planet were undergoing major changes. "Volcanism on Mars is really dominated by what we call ...