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LRO images bracket McGetchin crater's formation to seven weeks in 2024, preserving bright ejecta, complex deposition and a seven-kilometre thermal disturbance.
Dawn's images, gravity data and mineral maps point to Ahuna Mons as a young cryovolcanic dome built by a viscous slurry of brine, salts, ice and solid particles.
An evolutionary superpower refined over millions of years crumbles against a single streetlight.
Since its rediscovery in 2013, the report has stood as a candidate for the first time space weather interfered with a piece of human technology. A study published on 16 September finds that the line from Exeter to Starcross did not open until 30 May 1846, and points instead to a magnetogram trace recorded at Greenwich on the evening of 18 October 1848.
A bureaucratic blunder turned a $995 impulse buy into an $1.8 million windfall—if you can survive a government lawsuit claiming the moon dust was never yours to sell.
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