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	Science Daily update ⋅ March 18, 2021
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	Space.com Mars dust storms may cause mysterious 'zodiacal light' in Earth's night sky Space.com NASA's Juno spacecraft has detected interplanetary particles that suggest Martian storms fill the solar system with dust, causing a strange haze known as zodiacal light to be seen from Earth. Zodiacal light is a faint column of light extending up from the horizon ... Flag as irrelevant
	Spaceflight Now NASA's moon rocket set for second test-firing Thursday Spaceflight Now Two months after a first test-firing ended prematurely, NASA plans to ignite the core stage of the first Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket again Thursday for an eight-minute burn to confirm it is ready for shipment to the Kennedy Space Center for launch ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com The Perseverance rover's 1st month on Mars has been super smooth, scientists say Space.com And a big milestone is coming up this spring — pioneering flights by the Mars Helicopter Ingenuity. A portion of the panorama captured by the Mastcam-Z camera system aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. The full panorama consists of 142 images ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com Perseverance rover records sounds of a drive in another Mars first (video) Space.com The exploration firsts keep rolling in from NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars. Perseverance captured audio during a drive on March 7, an unprecedented recording that reveals the many creaks and rattles made by the six-wheeled robot as it rolls over Mars' ... Flag as irrelevant
	Spaceflight Now Perseverance rover records sounds of driving on Mars Spaceflight Now Now NASA has released another audio recording captured as the rover drove across Martian soil. The rover's aluminum wheels are about 20.7 inches (52.5 centimeters) in diameter. The six wheels have cleats for traction and ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Interstellar object ʻOumuamua may be a fragment of Pluto-like planet CNN (CNN) The first observed interstellar object zipped through our solar system in October 2017 -- and astronomers have been trying to understand it ever since. Scientists scrambled to observe the object before it disappeared, moving along at 196,000 miles per ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com Perseverance rover spots its first dust devil on Mars Space.com NASA's newest Mars rover nabbed a significant extraterrestrial sighting when an onboard camera happened to spot a Red Planet dust devil crossing Jezero Crater. Engineers on the Perseverance rover mission saw the whirlwind in the distance of images ... Flag as irrelevant
	Phys.Org Scientists determine the origin of extra-solar object 'Oumuamua Phys.Org Two Arizona State University astrophysicists, Steven Desch and Alan Jackson of the School of Earth and Space Exploration, set out to explain the odd features of 'Oumuamua and have determined that it is likely a piece of a Pluto-like planet from another solar ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNN Top secret Cold War project turned up plants that once thrived beneath mile-deep Greenland ice CNN Scientists were stunned to find twigs, leaves and mosses among the dirt drilled up from beneath mile-thick ice in northwestern Greenland in the 1960s. ( ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post No cigar: Interstellar object is cookie-shaped planet shard Washington Post CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Our solar system's first known interstellar visitor is neither a comet nor asteroid as first suspected and looks nothing like a cigar. A new study says the mystery object is likely a remnant of a Pluto-like world and shaped like a cookie. Flag as irrelevant
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