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	Science Daily update ⋅ November 23, 2021
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	Space.com Here are 6 times that spacecraft smacked into other worlds — for science! Space.com A few almost-rans; Galileo at Jupiter; Deep Impact hits Comet Tempel 1; LCROSS hits the moon; Messenger hits Mercury; Cassini hits Saturn; Hayabusa2 hits asteroid Ryugu; Next up: DART at asteroid Didymos. Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com With DART asteroid mission, NASA makes its 1st foray into planetary defense Space.com The first operation to ever collide a spacecraft with an asteroid is set to launch Wednesday (Nov. 24) and will see whether humans can deflect a potentially disastrous cosmic impact. For such an ambitious goal, the NASA project — called the Double ... Flag as irrelevant
	Spaceflight Now SpaceX ready for first launch with NASA interplanetary mission Spaceflight Now A small NASA spacecraft set to launch on a collision course with an asteroid has been encapsulated inside the payload fairing of its Falcon 9 rocket for blastoff from California this week, a mission that will mark SpaceX's first launch with a solar system ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com NASA's asteroid-slamming mission will test new ion drive system Space.com NASA's mission DART will test our ability to redirect an asteroid by quite literally crashing into it — but the spacecraft will also test a new type of propulsion system for the agency. NASA's Evolutionary Xenon Thruster-Commercial (NEXT-C) is an ion ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com James Webb Space Telescope launch delayed to Dec. 22 Space.com Webb has been completed, folded up and has survived a journey at sea to arrive in October at its launch site, Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. However, a recent incident during launch preparations has forced the mission team to delay liftoff a ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com Hubble Space Telescope team revives powerful camera instrument after glitch Space.com The Hubble Space Telescope continues to bounce back from its latest glitch. In late October, the famous space observatory suffered a problem with the synchronization of its internal messaging, causing all five of its main scientific instruments to go ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNET NASA's DART mission to crash into an asteroid: Why, when and how to watch CNET DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) is NASA's test run of a futuristic planetary defense system intended to protect Earth from incoming asteroids by literally slamming spacecraft into them. Get the CNET How To newsletter. Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times The Hubble Telescope Checks In With the Most Distant Planets The New York Times Every year the Hubble is deployed to make a visual "grand tour" of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. NASA calls this the Outer Planets Atmospheres Legacy program, and it lets planetary scientists and astronomers on Earth see what's changed and what hasn ... Flag as irrelevant
	Phys.Org Monarchs evolved mutations to withstand milkweed toxins; so did their predators Phys.Org Monarch butterflies and their close relatives thrive on poisonous milkweed, thanks to genetic mutations that block the effects of the plant's toxins while allowing the poisons to accumulate in the caterpillar or adult insects as deterrents to hungry ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNET Watch this mesmerizing video of butterfly scales forming inside a chrysalis CNET Larger, overlapping scales in red and green begin to form their structural details midway through development. Anthony McDougal and Sungsam Kang. A butterfly's beginnings are wondrous. Gently nestled in its cocoon, a caterpillar transforms into a ... Flag as irrelevant
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