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  Elon Musk explains why he launched a car toward Mars — and the reasons are much bigger than his ego

  Business Insider - Dave Mosher

  • In February, SpaceX launched an electric car toward Mars using its newest rocket, called Falcon Heavy.• Many people, especially scientists, questioned the choice of payload and destination.• SpaceX's founder, Elon Musk, recently responded to critics by saying he chose the car as the payload to inspire …

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  NASA Believes It Knows How To Make Mars Green Again

  Forbes - Meriame Berboucha

  NASA is thinking about introducing an artificial magnetic field near Mars so that it can develop an atmosphere which would hopefully help Mars support life and liquid surface water in the future. If introduced, Mars could have an atmosphere with half the Earth’s atmospheric pressure within a few …

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  Dinosaurs would have survived if asteroid hit Earth elsewhere, scientists claim

  The Washington Post - Ben Guarino

  A large asteroid strike happens only once every 100 million years. And a controversial new report suggests the K-Pg impact was an exceptionally unlikely shot. In a paper published Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports, a pair of researchers calculated the asteroid had little more than a …

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  Sun Unleashes Monster Solar Flare, Strongest in a Decade

  space.com - Sarah Lewin

  This article was updated at 5:44 p.m. EDT to indicate that a coronal mass ejection was observed coming from the site of the solar flare. Early this …

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  Record-breaking Astronaut Peggy Whitson returns to Earth

  apnewsarchive.com - By MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronaut Peggy Whitson returned to Earth late Saturday, wrapping up a record-breaking flight that catapulted her to …

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  Jupiter is oldest planet in solar system, ancient meteorites show

  The Washington Post - Ben Guarino

  Scientists have previously built computer models of the birth of Jupiter. But this study “is the first time that we can say something about Jupiter based on measurements done in the lab,” said study co-author Thomas S. Kruijer, a researcher at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in …