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Curiosity rover may be 'burping' methane out of Mars' subsurface - Space.com
Stefanie Waldek
Since 2012, NASA's Curiosity rover has repeatedly detected methane on Mars, specifically near its landing site inside the 96-mile-wide (154 kilometers) Gale Crater. But that Mars methane is behav ...[Continue Reading]
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16 days ago
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The latest on the massive solar storm - CNN
By Angela Fritz, Elise Hammond and Chris Lau, CNN
The ongoing solar storm will likely continue through the weekend, the Space Weather Prediction Center said Friday. Several coronal mass ejections waves of solar plasma that the sun belched out earli ...[Continue Reading]
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1 day ago
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NASA wants a cheaper Mars Sample ReturnBoeing proposes most expensive rocket - Ars Technica
Stephen Clark
Enlarge/ The Space Launch System rocket lifts off on the Artemis I mission. 33 NASA is looking for ways to get rock samples back from Mars for less than the $11 billion the agency would need under ...[Continue Reading]
Ars Technica
1 day ago
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Maps of northern lights forecast show where millions in U.S. could see aurora borealis this weekend - CBS News
Alex Sundby
Minnesotans may be treated to spectacular northern lights Friday night Minnesotans may be treated to spectacular northern lights Friday night03:53 Americans as far south as Alabama and Northern Ca ...[Continue Reading]
CBS News
1 day ago
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Voyager 1 was in crisis in interstellar space. NASA wouldn't give up. - The Washington Post
Joel Achenbach
For the past six months a team of engineers at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been trying to fix a glitchy computer. Three things make the repair job challenging: The computer is highly customi ...[Continue Reading]
The Washington Post
1 day ago
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Outdoing the dinosaurs: What we can do if we spot a threatening asteroid - Ars Technica
Paul Sutter
Enlarge/ We'd like to avoid this. 53 In 2005, the United States Congress laid out a clear mandate: To protect our civilization and perhaps our very species, by 2020, the nation should be able to de ...[Continue Reading]
Ars Technica
2 days ago