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Still from an animated view of the Sun and the Earth as seen from the Moon’s South Pole NASA source A long-standing idea in planetary science is that water-rich meteorites
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The resolution of the Event Horizon Telescope is limited by the diameter of Earth, and our observations of the black hole in M87 and in our own galaxy are at
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The United States cannot beat China without accelerating digital transformation: cloud-native services, edge computing, AI/ML-driven autonomy, software-defined payloads, zero-trust cybersecurity, network maneuver and automated DevSecOps pipelines. Digital transformation drives the






