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Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 29 Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral
File: A Falcon 9 rocket stands in the launch position at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ahead of the planned liftoff of the Starlink
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Canister containing material collected from asteroid Bennu placed inside the OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Univ. of Arizona/Lockheed Martin Studying asteroids addresses a number of unknowns in planetary science. Investigating
An Organics-forward Approach To Searching For Life On Mars
a The Viking 1 & 2 landers detected chlorinated breakdown products likely formed through interactions between organics and oxychlorine anions during thermal volatilization utilized for analysis11,12, b the Curiosity rover
Microbial Growth Rates Captured Using Raman-SIP reveal A Highly Active Subsurface Biosphere Fueled By Serpentinization
16S rRNA amplicon sequencing data of fluids collected from each borehole (A) prior and (B) post 2H incubation. Horizontal bars show relative abundance of 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing variants. Sample
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