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Old 09-10-2013, 06:37 PM
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Ice In Space? My wife just found a new kind!!

Not meaning to be too self-promotional, but this is a ridiculously appropriate topic for IIS, and I have to share it...

My wife (of the "get the larger version of the telescope" fame last year) just published a new paper in JGR-Planets. New ice in Space, and the first of it's kind to be found in 100 years!

"A new material for the icy Galilean moons: the structure of sulfuric acid hexahydrate."
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articl...09/3861711.htm

The research has been picked up by ABC Science and *may* eventually have some implications for future Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer-type missions.

I'm very proud of my wife, even if she'd struggle to find Jupiter in the sky
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