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Antarctica Froze Millions of Years Before the Arctic. We May Finally Know Why

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Some 34 million years ago, when Earth was significantly warmer than it is today, Antarctica froze over. It would take another 25 million years for ice to cover the Arctic, and the question of how the South Pole got its head start has puzzled scientists for decades. Experts have long attributed Antarctica’s glaciation to global cooling driven by declining levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere, but therein lie two problems.
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China’s Tianwen-2 Reaches Earth’s Quasi-Moon and Prepares to Grab a Sample

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China’s Tianwen-2 Reaches Earth’s Quasi-Moon and Prepares to Grab a Sample

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China’s Tianwen-2 probe has reached Kamoʻoalewa, one of seven known quasi-satellites that orbit near Earth. Scientists suspect the asteroid may actually be a fragment of the Moon—and Tianwen-2 will soon take a bite out of it to find out. The China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced the spacecraft’s arrival at Kamoʻoalewa today, bringing an end to its 600-million-mile (1-billion-kilometer) journey.
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