Written by Lucy Thompson, Planetary Scientist and APXS Team Member, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Earth Planning Date: Monday, Aug. 18, 2025
The downlink data from our weekend activities arrived on Earth as we started planning…
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Michigan DOT Pauses Work on Detroit’s $500M Freeway Corridor Makeover
Rising costs—now estimated at topping $500 million—and local opposition to the planned design have led the Michigan Dept. of Transportation to pause a project to convert Detroit’s downtown I-375 freeway into a grade-level boulevard.
Last…
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NASA’s Webb telescope finds a new tiny moon around Uranus
NEW YORK — The Webb Space Telescope has spotted a new tiny moon orbiting Uranus.
The new member of the lunar gang, announced Tuesday by NASA, appears to be just six miles (10 kilometers) wide. It was spotted by the telescope’s near-infrared…
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Belize project seeks out heat-resilient corals to protect its reefs
- An initiative called the Super Reefs program is setting out to identify the corals in Belize’s waters that have the highest chance of surviving warming waters amid climate change.
- Researchers with the program have…
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Our Ancestors May Have Walked Upright Long Before Leaving The Trees : ScienceAlert
Early human ancestors may have learned to walk upright on two legs up in the trees rather than on the firm ground of Africa’s ancient savannah.
A first-of-its-type study led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary…
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These Majestic Seabirds Never Stop Pooping – The New York Times
- These Majestic Seabirds Never Stop Pooping The New York Times
- Streaked shearwaters poop only while flying over the ocean Science News
- Why This Seabird’s Superpooper Lifestyle Is Amazing Scientists Scientific American
- POV: You Strapped A Camera…
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Astronomers Discover Extremely Rare Hierarchical Quadruple System
Named UPM J1040-3551 AabBab, the newly-discovered quadruple star system consists of a pair of cold brown dwarfs and a pair of young red dwarfs.
An artist’s impression of the UPM J1040-3551 system against the backdrop of the Milky Way as…
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Joule, Caterpillar Partner to Deliver Utah 4-GW Power and Hyperscale Computing Campus
A collaboration led by Joule Capital Partners, Caterpillar Inc. and Wheeler Machinery Co. is advancing plans for what the developers describe as Utah’s largest data center campus paired with more than 4 GW of on-site power generation.
The…
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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4631-4633: Radiant Ridge Revolution
Written by Remington Free, Operations Systems Engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 15, 2025
Today we uplinked a three-sol weekend plan with lots of exciting activities — to support both…
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