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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Reads Record of Ancient Mars Impacts
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NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has uncovered evidence that a 245-foot-thick (75-meter-thick) stack of ancient rock on the rim of Jezero Crater was built by repeated asteroid impacts. Referred to as the “Broom Point member” by the rover’s science team, this…
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Volunteer Measures Record Louisiana Rainfall
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Join a national community of precipitation reporters providing critical data to improve scientific understanding and forecasts.
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NASA’s Webb Discovers Hidden Planet in Famous Star System
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Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a giant planet outside our solar system, called an exoplanet, hiding within one of the most intensely studied planetary systems in our Milky Way galaxy. The young, nearby star Beta Pictoris…
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