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NASA warns 'potentially hazardous' asteroid the size of Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza will make ...

The Daily Mail 25 Mar 2025
'Composed mostly of water ice with embedded dust particles, comets originally formed in the cold outer planetary system while most of the rocky asteroids formed in the warmer inner solar system between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
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Asteroid 2024 YR may not hit Earth in 2032, but it—and others—will keep coming back

Phys Dot Org 24 Mar 2025
The gaps remained a mere curiosity of the solar system for about 100 years ... By dipping into the inner solar system, these asteroids are often removed from the gaps in a very simple way.
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Venus is ready for its close-up: We explain its inferior conjunction

Delaware Online 22 Mar 2025
... in our solar system and the second-closest to the sun ... Venus is Earth's nearest neighbor, and scientists think they were formed within the same inner region of the solar system, according to NASA.
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NASA Spacecraft Deep Into The Solar System Discovers New Unexpected Mystery

IFL Science 20 Mar 2025
At these distances, the spacecraft's team realized that it could be used to take images of the cosmic ultraviolet background (CUVB) radiation, far from the glow of sunlight, gas, and dust of the inner Solar System.
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Radioisotope generators − inside the ‘nuclear batteries’ that power faraway spacecraft

San Francisco Chronicle 14 Mar 2025
However, the farther into space you go, the weaker the Sun’s light becomes and the less useful it is for powering systems with solar panels. Even in the inner solar system, spacecraft such as lunar or Mars rovers need alternative power sources.
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NASA Launches Mission Aboard Falcon 9 From Vandenberg to Study Sun, Universe’s Beginning

Space Coast Daily 12 Mar 2025
NASA’s PUNCH will make global, 3D observations of the inner solar system and the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, to learn how its mass and energy become the solar wind, a stream of charged particles blowing outward from the Sun in all directions.
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NASA launches 'incredible' new tools into space to study the universe, sun's corona

Usatoday 12 Mar 2025
... solar wind ... To do this, the satellites will make 3D observations of both the inner solar system and the corona to learn how its mass and energy become solar wind blowing outward in all directions.
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Private spacecraft lands on Moon - but may be on its side

Business Ghana 10 Mar 2025
The IM-2 mission could also help to answer broader questions about why there is ice in the inner solar system, closer to the Sun's warming rays.
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