An Atmosphere That Shouldn't Exist + 12,000 Artemis II Photos

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Anna: Welcome to Astronomy Daily, your daily guide

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to what's happening across the universe. I'm

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Anna.

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Avery: And I'm avery. It's Wednesday 6th

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May, 2026. Series 5 Episode

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97 Big show today Avery.

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Anna: We've got a world beyond Pluto that has

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absolutely no right to have an atmosphere.

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And yet there it is.

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Avery: A rule breaker in the Kuiper Belt. I love it.

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We've also got 12,000 photographs from

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Artemis 2 landing on the Internet. And a

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quick look at where Artemis 3 is headed.

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Anna: Blue Origin's moon lander gets a very tough

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test. The sun turns out to be tidying up

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our orbital clutter. Drones could be the key

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to finding water on Mars.

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Avery: And a certain comet has done a handover.

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Northern skies, it's been emotional. Southern

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skies, Here it comes.

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Anna: Let's go.

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Avery: Alright, let's start with what might be my

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favorite story of the week. There is a little

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frozen world out beyond Neptune. A, uh, Trans

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neptunian object designated

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2002 XV93.

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And it appears to have a thin atmosphere.

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Anna: Which sounds nice, except that this object is

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only about 500km across. Way

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too small to hold an atmosphere.

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Avery: Exactly. The scientific understanding has

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always been that small icy bodies in the

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outer solar system just can't retain gases.

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They're too cold, their gravity is too weak.

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Pluto is the one exception. And Pluto is a

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dwarf planet. This thing is much smaller.

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Anna: So how did they find it?

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Avery: Stellar occultation. The team led by Dr.

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Ko Adematsu at the National Astronomical

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Observatory of Japan watched as

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2002 XV93 passed

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in front of a distant star. If there's no

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atmosphere, the star disappears instantly.

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Instead, the light faded gradually. That

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gradual change is the signature of an

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atmosphere bending the starlight.

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Anna: So what created the atmosphere? Do we know?

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Avery: Two leading theories. One is cryovolcanism,

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basically ice volcanoes venting internal

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gases. The other is a relatively recent

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comet impact that blasted material into

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space. If it's the latter, the atmosphere

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could disappear within a thousand years. We

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might be looking at this at an extremely

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lucky moment.

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Anna: Cosmically lucky. And the James Webb

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Telescope could potentially work out what the

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atmosphere is actually made of.

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Avery: That's the plan. Webb could detect the

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chemical signature it. And if the density is

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dropping over the next few years, that would

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point to the impact theory. If it stays

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stable, it's probably cryovolcanism, an

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ongoing process.

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Anna: What I love about this is that it's not just

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interesting, it actively changes the

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rulebook. If even this small world can hold

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an atmosphere, even temporarily. The Kuiper

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Belt could be a much more dynamic place than

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we thought.

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Avery: Dr. Adimatsu put it. This challenges the

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conventional view that small icy worlds in

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the outer solar system are mostly inactive

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and unchanging. And I think that's the story

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here. The outer solar system is alive.

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Anna: So the Artemis 2 mission ended almost a month

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ago. But the images just keep coming.

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Avery: They really do. NASA has quietly

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uploaded more than 12,000 photographs taken

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during the mission. The full archive is now

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publicly accessible on the Gateway to

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Astronaut Photography ofearth website.

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Anna: 12,000, that's a lot of scrolling.

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Avery: It is, though. Fair warning, some of them are

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duplicates or near identical frames. But even

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filtering for the standouts, there is

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extraordinary material in there. Close ups of

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the lunar farside that are the highest

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resolution images ever taken by a human hand.

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Star trails, Earth vanishing behind the moon.

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The Earth set shots, and they were

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Anna: shot on a combination of professional Nikon

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cameras and modified iPhone 17s.

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The crew left all the photos unattributed. A

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deliberate decision to frame it as a shared

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human achievement, which I think is lovely.

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Avery: And NASA says the archive isn't just for

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public enjoyment. It's a foundational data

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set for Artemis 3 mission planning. These

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images will help determine where to land, how

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terrain looks under different lighting

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conditions and more.

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Anna: Speaking of Artemis 3, any update on that

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front?

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Avery: Yes, actually. The Artemis 3

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Space Launch System core stage arrived at

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Kennedy Space center by Barge on April

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28th. It's now in the vehicle assembly

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building. The mission is targeting

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mid-2027. And the plan, as

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confirmed recently, is to launch into a

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460 kilometer low earth orbit

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to test docking between Orion and at

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least one of the commercial lunar landers.

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That's the critical rehearsal before Artemis

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4 attempts the actual moon landing in

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2028.

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Anna: So we went from zero humans on the moon since

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1972 to Artemis II,

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flying a crew around the far side to already

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stacking the next rocket. It's been quite a

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run.

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Avery: It really has.

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Anna: Blue Origin's Blue Moon Mark one lunar

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lander nicknamed Endurance has completed its

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thermal vacuum testing at NASA's Johnson

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Space Center. What does that actually

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involve?

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Avery: So thermal vacuum chamber A at

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Johnson is essentially a 90 foot tall

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can that sucks out out all the air and then

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cycles through extreme temperatures,

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simulating what a spacecraft will encounter

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in space and near the moon. You're recreating

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the environment of deep space right there on

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the ground in Houston.

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Anna: And Endurance passed.

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Avery: It did, which is a significant

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milestone because MK M1 is scheduled to

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fly to the moon's south polar region later

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this year. It's an uncrewed cargo

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lander. No people on board, but it's carrying

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a couple of interesting science payloads.

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Anna: What are those?

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Avery: There's a stereo camera array specifically

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designed to photograph the engine plume

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interacting with the lunar surface during

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descent. That might sound niche, but it's

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actually really important. Understanding how

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rocket exhaust disturbs the regolith helps

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you design safer landing approaches for

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crewed missions. The other payload is a

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laser retroreflector, which helps orbiting

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spacecraft precisely locate the lander.

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Anna: And there's a bigger picture here. MK1 is

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a pathfinder for MK2, the crewed version that

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Blue Origin is developing for future Artemis

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missions.

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Avery: Right. Every lesson learned from MK1 feeds

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directly into that. In the commercial lunar

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lander space, you really can't afford

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surprises when there are humans on board.

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Anna: Alright, moving on. New research published

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today in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space

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Sciences has confirmed something scientists

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have long suspected. Solar activity

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directly affects how quickly space debris

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falls back to Earth.

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Avery: Walk us through it. How does the Sun's

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activity move things in orbit?

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Anna: So the sun goes through an 11 year cycle of

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activity. At the peak, it's pumping out more

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radiation, which heats Earth's upper

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atmosphere, the thermosphere, causing it to

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expand. Low Earth orbit suddenly becomes

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a slightly thicker air environment.

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Objects passing through it experience more

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drag, which slows them down, lowers their

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orbit, and eventually brings them back.

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Avery: And the new study tracked this happening in

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practice?

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Anna: Yes. Ayesha Ashraf and colleagues at

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India's Vikram Sarabhai space center

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tracked 17 pieces of debris over

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38 years through three complete

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solar cycles. They found a really clear

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threshold effect. Once sunspot numbers hit

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roughly 70% of the cycle's peak, the

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debris started dropping noticeably below that

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threshold. The objects held their altitude

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above it. They steadily descended, a

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staircase pattern tied directly to the solar

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cycle.

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Avery: So the sun is naturally clearing some of the

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junk for us.

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Anna: In a sense, yes. And, um, the timing

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matters enormously. We're currently near the

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peak of Solar Cycle 25, which means right

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now is actually a period of accelerated

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orbital decay for a lot of debris. For

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mission planners dealing with the growing

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threat of collisions in low Earth orbit,

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understanding this cycle and knowing when the

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sun is most actively doing its housekeeping

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could be operationally very valuable.

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Avery: It's one of those stories where the universe

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turns out to be more interconnected than

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you'd expect.

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Anna: Always is. Now, before we move on, a quick

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Avery: Next up, Mars has hidden ice. We've known

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that for years. But the challenge is finding

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exactly where it is with enough precision to

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actually use it. A new study says

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radar equipped drones could be the answer.

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Anna: Yes, this is from a study published in the

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Journal of Geophysical Research. Planets.

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Mars has what are called debris covered

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glaciers at its mid latitudes. Basically

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huge reservoirs of water ice buried under

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a blanket of rock and dust. That rock

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actually protects the ice from sublimating

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away into the thin Martian atmosphere.

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Avery: And um, the orbital radar CHARAD on the Mars

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Reconnaissance Orbiter can see the ice is

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there, but can't resolve the exact boundary

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between ice and overlying debris.

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Anna: Exactly. CHAROD operates from orbit and

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the resolution just isn't fine enough for

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that kind of precision. What the researchers

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proposed is flying a low altitude drone with

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a ground penetrating radar to map from much

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closer up. They tested this concept on Earth

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over a rock glacier in Wyoming and the drone

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could see that boundary clearly.

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Avery: And ingenuity already showed us that powered

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fly on Mars is possible.

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Anna: That's the key precedent. A radar equipped

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successor drone doing subsurface science

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rather than just aerial photography is a

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completely logical next step for any future

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human mission that relies on in situ water.

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And they probably will. This kind of precise

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ice mapping ahead of time could be genuinely

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mission critical.

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Avery: Finding your water supply before you arrive

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rather than hoping for the best.

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Anna: Exactly. Scout ahead. It's what

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explorers have always done.

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Avery: And we close today with a handover. Comet

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C 2025 R3 Pan

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and it's now arriving for southern skies.

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Anna: For our listeners in Australia, New Zealand,

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South Africa, South America, this is your

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moment.

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Avery: The comet passed perihelion on April

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19 when it came within about 75

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million kilometers of the sun. It may have

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that time. It's now fading, but it's also

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moving away from the sun in the sky, which

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makes it much easier to actually observe.

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Anna: And there are some genuinely exciting deep

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sky encounters coming up. From May 10th to

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the 12th, C 2025 R3

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will pass within about 2 degrees of the Orion

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Nebula. For anyone with a telescope or even

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decent binoculars, that pairing is going to

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be something special to photograph.

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Avery: How bright is it now?

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Anna: Fading, but still a solid binocular target.

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The absolute best conditions will be around

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the new moon on the 16th of May. That's when

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the skies will be darkest. Look low in the

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western sky after sunset. Lear Horizon

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is your friend.

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Avery: And, um, is it worth the effort? If you're a

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casual observer rather than a dedicated

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astronomer, I'd say yes.

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Anna: Because this comet is on a hyperbolic

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trajectory, it is not coming back.

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Once it leaves, it's gone from our solar

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system forever. There's something quite

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remarkable about that, looking at it in the

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sky, knowing you're watching a one way

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journey.

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Avery: A visitor from the deep that won't pass this

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way again.

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Anna: Exactly. Go see it while you can.

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Avery: And that's Astronomy daily for Wednesday, 6

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May 2026. Series 5

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Episode 97 what a lineup today.

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Anna: From a frozen world growing an impossible

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atmosphere to 12,000 photographs from

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the moon to a comet making its southern

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debut.

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Avery: If you enjoyed the show, please subscribe and

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Avery: I'm Avery.

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Anna: And I'm Anna. Keep looking up.

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Avery: Mhm. Home.