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NASA lays out two new options for Mars sample return

cosmiclog.com

new plan for restructuring the Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission is now targeting sample retrieval by...

new plan for restructuring the Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission is now targeting sample retrieval by a distant 2035-2039 timeline and proposes two options

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Sky crane (landing system) - Wikipedia

wikipedia.org

sky crane

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Media Briefing: Mars Sample Return Update

youtube.com

full-length media call

science & technology

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Mars Ascent Vehicle - NASA Science

nasa.gov

Mars Ascent Vehicle

marsmars sample returnmissions

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https://mars.nasa.gov/internal_resources/788/

nasa.gov

MMRTG

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Earth Return Orbiter – the first round-trip to Mars

esa.int

Earth Return Orbiter

earth return orbitermarsmars sample returnnavigationtechnology

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Tianwen-3 - Wikipedia

wikipedia.org

China

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SpaceX

spacex.com

SpaceX

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Source regions of carbonaceous meteorites and near-Earth objects | Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A)

aanda.org

Three

a&aastronomy & astrophysicsedp scienceseso

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The Massalia asteroid family as the origin of ordinary L chondrites - Nature

nature.com

new

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Young asteroid families as the primary source of meteorites - Nature

nature.com

studies

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Most of Earth's meteorites come from a few asteroid break ups

cosmosmagazine.com

70% of the ~70,000 meteorites found on Earth so far came from just three recent collisions...

70% of the ~70,000 meteorites found on Earth so far came from just three recent collisions in the asteroid belt

asteroidastronomymeteorite

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Karin family - Wikipedia

wikipedia.org

Karin

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Koronis family - Wikipedia

wikipedia.org

Koronis

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Massalia family - Wikipedia

wikipedia.org

Massalia

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Newly discovered 'kiss and capture' mechanism explains the formation of Pluto and its largest moon | University of Arizona News

arizona.edu

Simulations suggest Pluto and its large moon Charon may have formed during an icy collision where...

Simulations suggest Pluto and its large moon Charon may have formed during an icy collision where two bodies collided and stuck together

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Capture of an ancient Charon around Pluto - Nature Geoscience

nature.com

paper

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NASA Research Reveals Saturn is Losing Its Rings at Worst-Case-Scenario Rate - NASA Science

nasa.gov

rings' continued existence at only about 100 million more years

rings of saturn

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Jupiter’s moon Ganymede was struck by asteroid bigger than dinosaur-killing rock

theguardian.com

an asteroid 20x larger than the Chicxulub impactor may have flipped Ganymede

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Giant impact on early Ganymede and its subsequent reorientation - Scientific Reports

nature.com

paper

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Dinosaur-killing Chicxulub asteroid formed in Solar System’s outer reaches

nature.com

suggest that the impactor was a carbonaceous asteroid, not a comet, and formed outside the orbit...

suggest that the impactor was a carbonaceous asteroid, not a comet, and formed outside the orbit of Jupiter

geochemistrygeology

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https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk4868

science.org

paper

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Asteroid that eradicated dinosaurs not a one-off, say scientists

theguardian.com

but two asteroid impacts may have been involved in the demise of the dinosaurs

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3D anatomy of the Cretaceous–Paleogene age Nadir Crater - Communications Earth & Environment

nature.com

paper

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Asteroid News

xkcd.com

#2984

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SpaceX

spacex.com

twelfth iteration of its SSO rideshare

aerospaceelon muskfalcon 9marsspace

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https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=58044.0;

nasaspaceflight.com

~131 payloads

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Ray - Inversion

inversionspace.com

Ray from Inversion Space

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x.com

x.com

Varda’s Winnebago-2

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Fledgling Veery "Barb" Mission Detail

careweather.com

Veery-0F

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Scatterometer - Wikipedia

wikipedia.org

scatterometer

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OroraTech Accelerates Deployment of Its Multipurpose Thermal Satellite Constellation

ororatech.com

Forest-3 from OroraTech

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Pixxel | Hyperspectral Imagery and Space Data Company

pixxel.space

Pixxel

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Google-backed Pixxel launches India's first private satellite constellation | TechCrunch

techcrunch.com

India’s first private commercial constellation

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https://www.mbrsc.ae/portfolio/mbz-sat/

mbrsc.ae

MBZ-Sat from the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre in the UAE

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https://www.planet.com/pulse/pelican-2-36-superdoves-arrived-in-vandenberg-california-for-launch/

planet.com

36 SuperDoves and Pelican-2

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V. Narayanan, who is set to take over as ISRO Chairman, terms his new assignment ‘a great responsibility’

thehindu.com

assigned

isro’s mars missionnew isro chairmanwho is v narayanan

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Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter

esa.int

Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter

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NASA-FIRMS

nasa.gov

watch them continue to unfold on NASA’s FIRMS fire monitoring system

archive fire datafirefire email alertsfire mapmap

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GitHub - xingyzt/fire: Analysing satellite imagery of the Jan 2025 Southern California wildfires

github.com

amateur open source analysis

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x.com

x.com

many folks employed at JPL and beyond lost their homes

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https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl5441

science.org

Analysis of Kepler data

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Carrington Event - Wikipedia

wikipedia.org

Carrington Event

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Superflares once per Century

mpg.de

average once a century

sun; superflare

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415 Years Ago: Astronomer Galileo Discovers Jupiter’s Moons - NASA

nasa.gov

Galileo discovered Jupiter’s moons

generaljohnson space center

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After 60 years of spaceflight patches, here are some of our favorites

arstechnica.com

After 60 years of spaceflight patches, here are some of our favorites

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Single-blind test of nine methane-sensing satellite systems from three continents

copernicus.org

paper

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Nearly two years after its radical pivot, Fidelity slashes Relativity’s valuation

arstechnica.com

fallen from $4.5 billion in 2023 to about $100 million today

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World's darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megaproject

eso.org

World's darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megaproject

astronomieastronomyastrophysicsesoeso.org

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https://caltech.imodules.com/controls/email_marketing/view_in_browser.aspx?sid=1709&gid=3&sendId=5779747&ecatid=29&puid=84fbff86-9423-4e53-8fb9-7850e026e4c4

imodules.com

resources here for the JPL region

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