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How lessons learned from space exploration could feed the world

Sustainable food systems developed for deep space could help mitigate the food crisis, says Angelo Vermeulen

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The rise of SpinLaunch, the company planning to hurl things into space

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https://www.jma.go.jp/jma/jma-eng/satellite/index.html Artist?s impression of Himawari-8 and Himawari-9

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Betelgeuse star dimming puzzle solved by chance with weather satellite

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$Mare Crisium is a large, dark, basaltic plain on the Moon that filled an ancient asteroid impact. Basaltic plains on the Moon were created by early volcanic eruptions. Mare Crisium was flooded with basaltic lava, a dark, runny lava commonly found on Earth. Basaltic plains on the Moon are also known as lunar maria, because of a mistaken belief by early astronomers that these dark areas were oceans ? ?maria? is the Latin word for ?seas.? We now know these spots to be plains of basalt created by early volcanic eruptions, but the nomenclature of ?maria? (plural) or ?mare? (singular) remains. The basalts in Mare Crisium range in age from 2.5 to 3.3 billion years old! These dates come from measuring the radioactive isotope signatures of samples returned from Mare Crisium by the Soviet Luna 24 mission. Along the rim of Mare Crisium lies an outer boundary of wrinkle ridges. Wrinkle ridges are commonly found in places where the surface has contracted. As the surface is compressed, it bends and fractures, and can form complicated patterns of faults and folds.$

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Bricks made of dust from the moon and Mars could make space buildings

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Send thousands of people to orbit, says space tourist Jared Isaacman

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The ?crew? of the Artemis 1 mis?sion to the Moon

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Space test dummies will measure female radiation risk for first time

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Controversial claim that the universe is skewed could upend cosmology

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Robot that jumps 100 times own height could be future moon explorer

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All four of the key DNA building blocks have been found in meteorites

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NASA should explore Uranus and Enceladus, say planetary scientists

A major report on priorities for the next decade of US planetary science calls for the first dedicated Uranus probe and an orbiter-lander combo for Saturn’s ocean moon Enceladus

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