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Edwin Rod
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I enjoy posting about Science and Astronomy
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NASA Tests Drones in Death Valley, Preps for Martian Sands and Skies
Next-generation drone flight software is just one of 25 technologies for the Red Planet that the space agency funded for development this year.
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December 3, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Heavy rain, thunderstorms and strong winds expected as summer officially begins
MetService reports a broad range of weather including heavy rain, thunderstorms, strong winds, and sunny spells
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December 1, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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NASA Orbiter Shines New Light on Long-Running Martian Mystery
Results from an enhanced radar technique have demonstrated improvement to subsurface observations of Mars.
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December 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Kaitoke Regional Park
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November 30, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Kaitoke Regional Park
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November 30, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Kaitoke Regional Park
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November 30, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Drones, physics and rats: Studies show how the people of Rapa Nui made and moved the giant statues – and what caused the island’s deforestation
The mysteries of Easter Island, subjects of speculation for centuries, yield to scientific inquiry.
theconversation.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Looking inside icy moons
The outer planets of the Solar System are swarmed by ice-wrapped moons. Some of these, such as Saturn’s moon Enceladus, are known to have oceans of liquid water between the ice shell and the roc...
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November 29, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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NASA Orbiter Shines New Light on Long-Running Martian Mystery
Results from an enhanced radar technique have demonstrated improvement to subsurface observations of Mars.
www.jpl.nasa.gov
November 27, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Auckland swelters during hottest November day on record
Many parts of the country have exceeded 30 degrees celsius on Thursday.
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November 27, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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More than half of new articles on the internet are being written by AI – is human writing headed for extinction?
As AI floods the internet with text, it could mean human voices will matter more – not less.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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November 25, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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How Mega-Constellations Are Learning to Manage Themselves
Satellite megaconstellations are quickly becoming the backbone of a number of industries. Cellular communication, GPS, weather monitoring and more are now, at least in part, reliant on the networks of...
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November 23, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Yes, the Universe Can Expand Faster Than Light
An expanding universe complicates this picture just a little bit, because the universe absolutely refuses to be straightforward.
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November 23, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Earth and Theia smashed to birth the moon, but did they first start out as close neighbors?
"The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner solar system. Earth and Theia are likely to have been neighbors."
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November 22, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Brookfield Camp
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November 21, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Brookfield Camp
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November 21, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Brookfield Camp
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November 21, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Limits on Stellar Flybys in the Solar Birth Cluster
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November 21, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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The Firefly and the Pulsar | Centauri Dreams
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November 21, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Interesting research on a famous cluster
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Astronomers find the ‘Greater Pleiades Complex’
Combining data from two space telescopes, a new study proves the famous Seven Sisters cluster is the core of a much larger, dissolving stellar family.
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November 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Beyond the habitable zone: Exoplanet atmospheres are the next clue to finding life on planets orbiting distant stars
Searching for life on other planets requires more than just measuring their distances from their stars. A future NASA telescope may help search for potentially habitable worlds.
theconversation.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Some great results
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NASA’s Mars Spacecraft Capture Images of Comet 3I/ATLAS
Two orbiters and a rover captured images of the interstellar object — from the closest location any of the agency’s spacecraft may get — that could reveal new details.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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An Interesting Moon
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NASA Cassini Study Finds Organics ‘Fresh’ From Ocean of Enceladus
Researchers dove deep into information gathered from the ice grains that were collected during a close and super-fast flyby through a plume of Saturn’s icy moon.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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What’s a red dwarf? Only the most abundant Milky Way star
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November 20, 2025 at 1:18 AM