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NASA's Lucy spacecraft to zoom past asteroid this weekend at 30,000 mph: "We don't know what to expect"
NASA's Lucy will venture as close as 596 miles to this asteroid, an estimated 2 ½ miles in length but much shorter in width.
A Scientist Has an Explosive Plan to Terraform Mars. It's So Wild That It Might Just Work.
One part of this plan would require increasing the planet’s atmospheric pressure, and one scientist suggests that capturing ...
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NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is speeding toward another close encounter with an asteroid
Rather, Levison said the asteroid may resemble a bowling pin or even a snowman like Arrokoth, the Kuiper Belt object visited by NASA’s New Horizon spacecraft in 2019. The other possibility is ...
The Wild Plan to Terraform Mars by Slamming Asteroids Into It
If future Mars colonizers want to survive without pressure suits, they’ll need to generate a denser atmosphere. One way to ...
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Lucy spacecraft gears up for potential asteroid close encounter this weekend
Rather, Levison said the asteroid may resemble a bowling pin or even a snowman like Arrokoth, the Kuiper Belt object visited by NASA's New Horizon spacecraft in 2019. The other possibility is that ...
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NASA's Lucy spacecraft is speeding toward another close encounter with an asteroid
Rather, Levison said the asteroid may resemble a bowling pin or even a snowman like Arrokoth, the Kuiper Belt object visited by NASA's New Horizon spacecraft in 2019. The other possibility is that ...