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    NASA's Curiosity rover captures 360-degree view of Mars — and finds strange sulfur stones

    From the article: "Because the sulfur on Earth comes from hot springs and volcanoes, neither of which have been found on Mars, the JPL team has yet to come up with an explanation for the element's existence on the world." The difference between the scientific method and the non-scientific is...
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    NASA's New Horizons mission faces an uncertain future (op-ed)

    Besides staff, what costs does an existing mission incur? That would have been a useful piece of information.
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    The universe is humming with gravitational waves. Here's why scientists are so excited about the discovery

    Great stuff. But this isn't high school newsletter writing. You can get rid of all the exclamations, IMO: "... the effect on spacetime as being as small as around one part in 1,000,000,000,000,000!" "... some neutron stars spinning as fast as 700 times per second!" " ... just on a whole...
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    Meet Calypso, a daredevil mission concept to explore the surface of Venus

    I can buy a carbon fiber cable much longer than "a few feet." The breaking length of several materials exceeds 20 miles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_strength). Most innovative extraplanetary probes cost billions. We don't get anywhere by giving up before we're actually defeated.
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