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Senior editor at @sciam. Author of Five Billion Years of Solitude, re: the search for Earth-like exoplanets. Opinions my own. Signal: @lee_billings.81
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Will NASA's SkyFall Mars helicopter fleet sink science at the Red Planet?

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By Meghan Bartels Verified, Lee Billings Verified
| Scientific American Verified
Mars researchers are wrestling with the potential costs of a flashy new NASA mission to the Red Planet NASA wants to send an ambitious fleet of helicopters to soar through Martian skies—but scientists fear the endeavor could crater existing Red Planet research missions. In March NASA unveiled SkyFall , a flashy proposal for packing three identical helicopters into a first-of-its-kind nuclear-propelled spacecraft to be launched to Mars in late 2028.
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NASA's Lucy mission reveals an asteroid's hidden history

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By Lee Billings Verified, Claire Cameron Verified
| Scientific American Verified
Next summer, NASA's Lucy spacecraft will start sidling up to several asteroids near Jupiter. On its way there, it has studied another space rock up close NASA's Lucy spacecraft is on a long-haul, first-of-its-kind voyage to unlock the secret history of our solar system, but it's also filling in more details about more ordinary space rocks along the way.
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NASA’s Lucy mission reveals an asteroid’s hidden history

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By Lee Billings Verified
| Yahoo Verified
The asteroid Donaldjohanson, as observed by NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft on April 20, 2025. The grayscale optical image is overlaid by a false-color map indicating the gravitational slopes on the asteroid’s surface. NASA's Lucy spacecraft is on a long-haul, first-of-its-kind voyage to unlock the secret history of our solar system, but it's also filling in more details about more ordinary space rocks along the way.
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