planetary
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The budget request proposes pulling some funding from Perseverance to fund other planetary science missions and reducing “the pace of operations” for the rover.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2026
The system successfully identified a variety of rock types that are important for planetary science.
From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2026
“We don’t know because it’s never been done at a planetary scale before,” Webb says.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
Noah Petro, head of NASA's planetary geology lab, told AFP that the Moon will look to the astronauts "about the size of a basketball held at arm's length."
From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026
Whether Neptune has a ring is a problem high on the agenda of planetary scientists.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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