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Mars may hold a massive water reservoir, enough to flood the planet up to nine feet

Interesting Engineering 01 Apr 2025
This ice-rich deposit could be the largest known water reservoir in this part of Mars, with an estimated volume comparable to Earth’s Red Sea. If melted, it has the potential to flood the entire planet in nine feet of water, scientists say.
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AI and satellites help aid workers respond to Myanmar earthquake damage

Times Standard 01 Apr 2025
“The Earth is too different, the ... Planet Labs says its satellites — it has 15 of them orbiting the Earth — have now photographed roughly a dozen locations in Myanmar and Thailand since Friday’s quake.
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Could convection in the crust explain Venus's many volcanoes?

Phys Dot Org 31 Mar 2025
Venus—a hot planet pocked with tens of thousands of volcanoes—may be even more geologically active near its surface than previously thought ... If true, it gives us new insight into the evolution of the planet.".
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Scientists are baffled after discovering a bizarre rock on Mars that's like NOTHING they've ever ...

The Daily Mail 31 Mar 2025
The Red Planet (pictured) is an average of 140 million miles (225 million km) away from Earth ... ancient past and to collect rock specimens for return to Earth through future missions to the Red Planet.
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Houston Arboretum presents Earth Day Celebration 2025, celebrating our planet through art

Houston Leader 31 Mar 2025
Come on out for Earth Day Celebration at the Houston Arboretum and celebrate the planet earth through art ... Since then, Earth Day has evolved into the largest civic event on Earth, activating billions ...
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What Is An Eccentric Orbit, And Which Astronomical Objects Have One?

IFL Science 31 Mar 2025
In classical times and through the Middle Ages, it was believed that planets orbited the Earth on perfect spheres ... Those who studied the problem, whether they still thought the planets orbited the ...
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SpaceX to Launch First-Ever Mission Around Earth’s Poles

Colombia One 31 Mar 2025
SpaceX is set to launch its first mission over Earth’s poles ... This was the name of a Norwegian ship that explorers used for key expeditions to the North and South poles of the planet at the turn of the 20th century. .
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Mars is stupid

The Manila Times 31 Mar 2025
... failure Mars looks awfully far away for a rocket that needs to go from "has a one-in-two chance of exploding" to "successfully landing on a planet 64 million kilometers from Earth" in 20 months.
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Writers on the Range: When reality weighs you down

Vail Daily 31 Mar 2025
It seems so grim today on Planet Earth that archaeologists, biologists and other ologists want to name this epoch the “Anthropocene” for our human-dominated, hopeless present ... There are ways to live on our home planet without spoiling it.
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Fram2: SpaceX’s historic mission to fly four passengers over Earth’s poles - here’s everything you need to know

The Times of India 31 Mar 2025
Fram2 will attempt a true 90-degree inclination, flying directly across the equator and providing a fresh view of our home planet.The SpaceX Fram2 mission, targeted to be the first human Earth polar ...
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This newly found super-Earth might have blown off its own atmosphere

Space 31 Mar 2025
A newly found super-Earth could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets twice the diameter of Earth ....
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April 17 is deadline for Earth Day Art Contest

Richland Source 31 Mar 2025
... across Crawford County to get creative and celebrate Earth Day! We can’t wait to see how they bring the theme to life through their artwork and show what protecting our planet means to them.”.
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'A thrilling ride like no other': Williams, Wimore, and the view from Goddard's Worcester

The Gardner News 31 Mar 2025
Planet Earth is blue ... from a much-longer-than-expected voyage aboard the International Space Station, to a nation and a planet beset by earthly cares, including what led to their prolonged stay.
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Elon Musk says he might go to Mars 'but that will be part of America'

The Times of India 31 Mar 2025
His vision for Mars extends beyond just landing humans; he wants to create a self-sustaining civilisation on the planet. He recently reiterated his belief that humanity must expand beyond Earth.
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Eye in the sky: California spending $100M to track methane emissions with satellites

Phys Dot Org 31 Mar 2025
The Tanager-1 satellite was built by Planet Labs PBC, a San Francisco-based, publicly traded company that touts operating the largest fleet of imaging satellites to observe Earth. Planet Labs has ...
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