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🌗 The Moon

• Why explore the Moon

• How NASA and Chandrayaan discovered water on the Moon

• How the Apollo missions transformed our understanding of the Moon’s origin

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Moon Exploration Newsletter 🚀

🪐 Planetary Science

• Why explore Venus

• Why explore asteroids, comets, and other small worlds

• Why explore Neptune

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🛰 Space Missions

• NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft revealed how Mars lost its atmosphere and water

• Japan wants to sample Mars’ moon Phobos with its MMX mission

• A mission to touch the Sun, with the fastest spacecraft in history

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🦸🏻‍♀️ Interviews

• Interviewing neutrino-hunting particle physicist Kate Scholberg

• Interviewing Tory Bruno, leading the company that has launched every NASA mission to Mars

• Interviewing Chandrayaan 1’s Mission Director on India’s role in the new Moon race

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🦠 Astrobiology

• Timeline for life until the end of the Universe

• What are the possibilities of life around the Universe’s most common stars?

• Why explore Saturn and its moons

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🇮🇳 ISRO

• Space science missions ISRO will launch in the near future

• India’s Mars orbiter completes six years at the red planet, but where is the science?

• ISRO’s Chandrayaan 2 orbiter is creating the highest resolution map of the Moon

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💫 Astrophysics

• First results from Voyagers, the NASA spacecraft at the edge of interstellar space

• India’s Astrosat and NASA’s Chandra co-discover a rapidly spinning black hole

• From Hipparchus to Gaia, the story of finding our place among billions of stars

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🚀 Space Tech

• Space grade electronics: How NASA’s Juno survives near Jupiter

• Experiments at the International Space Station that paved the way to living on Mars and beyond

• Gravity assist: The simple physics trick that’s allowed humanity to explore deep space

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🟠 Exoplanets

• The most extreme planets scientists have discovered in our galaxy

• Super Saturn – How does a planet maintain rings 200 times larger than Saturn’s?

• Where does India’s first exoplanet discovery fit in?

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👩‍🚀 Humans in Space

• Experiments at the International Space Station that paved the way to living on Mars and beyond

• The landing site of NASA Apollo 11

• Rocket Science 101: The Moon as a rocket platform

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🧐 Opinion

• India’s Mars orbiter completes six years at the red planet, but where is the science?

• ISRO needs night survival technologies for future Moon missions and beyond

• Chandrayaan 2’s landing failure and the road ahead

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🛸 Sci-Fi

• Can there be a galactic empire?

• How Isaac Asimov used science fiction to point out our biases

• How science fiction helps us contemplate reality

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🎲 Meta

• I saw a rocket launch!

• Start the new year by realizing how insignificant we are

• What got me interested in space?

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