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NASA’s Lucy Reaches Trojan Asteroid Region 5 Years After Launch
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Having traveled more than 2.2 billion miles since it launched on Oct. 16, 2021, NASA’s Lucy is the first spacecraft to enter a region of primitive solar-system bodies known as the Jupiter Trojan asteroids.

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The Land of the Standing-Up Rocks
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A national monument since the 1920s, Chiricahua is America's newest national park.

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Adventures in Wildfire Smoke Stratospheric Ballooning
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The student ballooning team at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities went to work tracking the plume of a pyrocumulonimbus cloud.

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NASA Invites Media to Crew Completion of Yearlong Mars Simulation
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The four volunteers who lived and worked in a simulated NASA Mars mission for more than a year will exit their habitat on Saturday, Oct. 31, after 378 days of isolation in a facility at the agency’s Johnson Space Center…

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Spacewalk Preps, Robotics Jobs, and Science Duties Fill Tuesday Schedule
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Spacewalking tools and a pair of robotics jobs topped Tuesday’s schedule aboard the International Space Station. The Expedition 75 crew members also kept up their scientific duties configuring botany research hardware and setting up advanced Earth observation gear.

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NASA’s UVEX Space Telescope Successfully Passes Key Milestone
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Agency officials have confirmed NASA’s UVEX space telescope after completing a technical and programmatic review known as Key Decision Point C.

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A-81 Reaches South Georgia
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The Antarctic iceberg made a relatively quick exit from the Weddell Sea, only to slow at the edge of a remote island’s underwater shelf.

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NASA’s Perseverance Views Dust at Neretva Vallis
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Description This 360-degree look at Neretva Vallis within Mars’ Jezero Crater was stitched together using 217 images acquired by the rover’s Mastcam-Z on May 20, 2024, the 1,155th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. While it is a wind-swept dusty vista today, billions…

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