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| | | | While Earth is only the fifth largest planet in the solar system, it is the only world in our solar system with liquid water on the surface. Just slightly larger than nearby Venus, Earth is the biggest of the four planets closest to the Sun, all of which are made of rock and metal. Earth [] | |
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| | | | There are five sweet spots where a spacecraft can keep pace with Earth as both orbit the Sun. They are called the Lagrange points, after the brilliant French mathematician Joseph-Louis Lagrange who found special solutions to what is called the "three-body problem". To locate the second Lagrange point, L2, draw a line 150 million km... | |
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| | | | The Sun sends out a constant flow of charged particles called the solar wind, which ultimately travels past all the planets to some three times the distance to Pluto before being impeded by the interstellar medium. This forms a giant bubble around the Sun and its planets, known as the heliosphere. NASA studies the heliosphere [...] | |
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| | First lander to drill on the Moon's south pole delayed for good Jeff Foust reports that NASA will provide an additional $12.4 million to Intuitive Machines for itsupcoming second Moon landing mission (IM-2) part of the agency's CLPS program for work related to changing the landing |