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NASA’s Psyche Mission Aces Mars Flyby, Targets Metal-Rich Asteroid
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NASA’s Psyche spacecraft completed its close approach of Mars on May 15, coming within 2,864 miles (4,609 kilometers) of the planet’s surface. This flyby used a gravity assist from Mars to provide a critical boost in speed and to adjust…
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NASA’s Hubble Detects First-Ever Spin Reversal of Tiny Comet
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Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found evidence that the spinning of a small comet slowed and then reversed its direction of rotation, offering a dramatic example of how volatile activity can affect the spin and physical evolution of…
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How Open NASA Data on Comet 3I/ATLAS Will Power Tomorrow’s Discoveries
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The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will soon leave our solar system, never to return, but the observations of the comet will live on in NASA’s public data archives. More than a dozen NASA science missions turned their instruments to observe the…
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