NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Zooms Past Asteroid Donaldjohanson, Neutrino Mass Limit Set
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NASA's Lucy Mission, Neutrino Mass Breakthrough, and Martian Rock Discoveries
In this episode of SpaceTime, we dive into NASA's Lucy spacecraft as it prepares for a close flyby of the asteroid Donald Johanson, located in the main asteroid belt. The spacecraft will autonomously track and observe this 3km wide space rock, gathering crucial data that could shed light on its peculiar formation and geological history. This encounter serves as a vital rehearsal for Lucy's upcoming mission to explore Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, promising insights into the early solar system.
A New Upper Limit for Neutrino Mass
Next, we discuss a groundbreaking study that has established a new upper limit for the mass of the elusive neutrino, now determined to be less than 0.45 electron volts. This significant finding not only narrows the particle's mass range but also challenges existing theories in particle physics, pushing the boundaries of our understanding of the universe's fundamental forces.
Intriguing Martian Richie Outcrops
Additionally, we explore the fascinating discoveries made by NASA's Mars Perseverance rover on the rim of Jezero Crater. The rover has uncovered a diverse array of rock types, providing a unique glimpse into Martian history and the planet's potential for past habitability. With multiple rock samples collected and analyzed, Perseverance continues to unveil the geological secrets of the Red Planet.
00:00 Space Time Series 28 Episode 49 for broadcast on 23 April 2025
00:49 Lucy spacecraft's close encounter with asteroid Donald Johanson
06:30 Insights into the asteroid's formation and geology
12:15 New upper limit established for neutrino mass
18:00 Implications for particle physics and the standard model
22:45 Mars Perseverance rover's discoveries on Jezero Crater
27:00 Summary of recent planetary exploration findings
30:15 Science report: Weather extremes and lab-grown chicken nuggets
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00:00 - Space Time Series 28 Episode 49 for broadcast on 23 April 2025
00:49 - Lucy spacecraft’s close encounter with asteroid Donald Johanson
06:30 - Insights into the asteroid’s formation and geology
12:15 - New upper limit established for neutrino mass
18:00 - Implications for particle physics and the standard model
22:45 - Mars Perseverance rover’s discoveries on Jezero Crater
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This is Spaceime Series 28, episode 49
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for broadcast to the 23rd of April,
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2025. Coming up on Spaceime, NASA's Lucy
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spacecraft takes a closer look at the
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asteroid Donald Johansson, the discovery
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of a new upper limit for the mass of the
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neutrino, and intriguing Martian rocky
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outcrops discovered on the rim of Jezro
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Crater. All that and more coming up on
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Spaceime.
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Welcome to SpaceTime with Stuart
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[Music]
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Garry. NASA's Lucy mission to explore
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Jupiter's Trojan asteroids is about to
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undertake a close flyby of the main belt
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asteroid Hansen. Lucy is passing within
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960 kilometers of the 3 km wide space
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rock located between Mars and Jupiter.
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About 30 minutes before closest
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approach, Lucy will orient itself to
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track the asteroid, during which time
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its high gain antenna will turn away
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from the Earth, suspending
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communication. Guided by its terminal
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tracking system, Lucy will autonomously
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rotate to keep Donald Johansson in view.
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As it does this, Lucy will carry out a
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complicated observing sequence. All
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three of its science instruments, the
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high gain resolution grayscale imager
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called Lori, the color imager and
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infrared spectrometer called El Ralph,
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and the far infrared spectrometer called
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Latess will all carry out observation
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sequences very similar to that which
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will take place when it encounters the
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Trojan asteroids. One of the weird
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things about these deep space missions
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is that it teaches scientists just how
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slow the speed of light seems. Well, I
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guess it's all relative. Lucy will be
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some 12 1/2 light minutes away from the
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Earth during the close flyby, meaning it
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will take that long from the signals
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from Lucy to reach the Earth and another
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12 1/2 minutes before a response from
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the Earth gets back to Lucy. This will
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be the second asteroid close encounter
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for Lucy and will serve as a dress
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rehearsal for the spacecraft's main
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targets, the never-before explored
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Jovian Trojan asteroids. Back in
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November 2023, Lucy successfully
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observed the tiny main belt asteroid
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Dinkanesh and its small contact binary
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moon Salm. A report in the Planetary
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Science Journal claims new modeling
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indicates that Donald Johansson may have
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formed about 150 million years ago when
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a large parent asteroid broke apart.
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When Lucy flies past the space rock, the
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data collected will provide additional
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independent insights into the asteroid
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shape, surface geology, and cratering
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history. Lucy's deputy principal
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investigator, Simone Marchie from the
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Southwest Research Institute in Boulder,
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Colorado, says based on groundbased
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observations, Donald Johansson appears
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to be a peculiar object and
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understanding the formation of this
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asteroid could help explain some of
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those peculiarities. Data indicates that
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it could be quite elongated and a slow
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rotator, possibly due to thermal torqus
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which have slowed down its spin over
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time. It's a common type of asteroid
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composed of silicut rocks and perhaps
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containing clays and organic matter. The
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new study also indicates that Donald
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Johansson is likely to be a member of
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the Aragon collisional asteroid family.
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That's a group of asteroids all on
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similar orbits that were created when
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the larger parent body broke apart. The
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family originated from the inner main
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asteroid belt not very far from the
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source regions of the nearear asteroids
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Bonu and Ryugu. They were recently
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visited respectively by NASA's Osiris
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Rex and Jax's Hayabusa 2 missions. As
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for the asteroid's name, Donald
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Johansson, well, it's the name of the
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paleontologist who discovered Lucy, a
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fossilized astralcus homminid skeleton
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found in Ethiopia in 1974, which by the
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way is how the Lucy mission got its
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name. Just as Lucy the Fossil provided
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unique insights in the origins of
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humanity, Lucy the mission promises to
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revolutionize science's understanding of
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the origins of humanity's home world.
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Don Hansen's also the only named
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asteroid yet to be visited while its
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namesake is still living. The Lucy
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mission's principal investigator, Hal
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Leverson, also from the Southwest
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Research Institute, says the mission
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plans to visit 11 asteroids during its
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12-year tour. The Trojan asteroids are
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located in two swarms, one about 60°
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ahead, the other 60° behind the giant
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gas planet Jupiter. The asteroids are
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kept in these orbital positions ahead of
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and behind Jupiter thanks to the areas
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being gravitational wells known as the
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Lrangee L4 and L5 positions. These
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Trojans are considered relics,
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effectively fossils of the planetary
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formation process. Therefore, they hold
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vital clues to deciphering the history
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of our solar system. Leverson says,
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"Encounters with main belt asteroids not
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only provide a close-up view of these
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bodies themselves, but also allow
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scientists perform engineering tests on
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the spacecraft's navigation systems
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before the main event to study the
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Trojans. This report on the Lucy mission
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from NASA
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TV. About 150 million years ago, Earth's
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most recent superc continent was in the
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process of breaking up. Soraods
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dominated the lush, slowly separating
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landmass that would become today's
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familiar continents. Meanwhile, in the
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asteroid belt, a breakup of a different
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sort was taking place. The large
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asteroid 163 was pummeled in a
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collision, shedding debris to form a new
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family of
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asteroids. Fast forward to 3.2 million
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years ago, long after the fall of the
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dinosaurs, when an early hominin walked
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upright through an Ethiopian river
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valley. Now, a robotic explorer named
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for our most famous human ancestor is
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heading to a member of the origin
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asteroid family on route to the fossils
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of planetary formation.
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Liftoff. Atlas 5 takes flight. NASA's
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Lucy mission launched in October 2021
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and flew past Earth in 2022 and 2024 for
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a pair of gravity assists. In early
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2025, Lucy entered the main asteroid
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belt on course for humanity's first
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encounter with 52246 Donald Johansson.
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The asteroid was named in honor of the
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paleoanthropologist who discovered the
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Lucy fossil in 1974, rewriting the
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textbooks on human origins. While
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asteroid Donald Johansson has never been
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seen up close, its brightness varies
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greatly as it rotates, suggesting an
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elongated shape. It is a member of the
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origami family of asteroids made from
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fragments of the collision that took
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place about 150 million years ago.
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Earth-based observations suggest that
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Donald Johansson is carbonri, has an
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average diameter of about 4 km, and
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spins on its axis extremely slowly,
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giving it a
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251-hour
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day. Lucy will approach Donald Johansson
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from the direction of the sun, traveling
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13.4 4 km/s relative to the asteroid. As
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its target grows near, the spacecraft
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will slowly rotate, keeping the asteroid
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in view. Over the course of a few hours,
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Donald Johansson will transform from a
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point of light into a detailed world.
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Lucy's long range reconnaissance imager
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will capture highresolution pictures
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throughout the flyby, providing our best
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look yet at the asteroid. Just before
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closest approach, when Lucy is about 900
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km from its target, it will abruptly
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turn its instrument pointing platform
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away from the sun to protect its
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sensitive
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electronics. Shortly after the flyby,
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Lucy will perform a pitchback maneuver,
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changing the direction of its rotation
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to turn its high gain antenna toward
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Earth. 2 hours later, data from Lucy
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will deliver the first close-up views of
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Donald Johansson, a surviving remnant of
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the solar systems chaotic past.
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Following the flyby, Lucy will continue
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to pass through the main asteroid belt.
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In August 2027, it will reach Uripides,
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an asteroid more than 10 times larger
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than Donald Johansson and a member of
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the Jupiter Trojans. These primordial
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and primitive objects are trapped in
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Jupiter's orbit and are considered the
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fossils of planetary formation. Between
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2027 and 2033, Lucy will make five
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separate encounters with Trojan
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asteroids and their moons. It will
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become the first spacecraft to explore
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this ancient population. Asteroids more
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than 1,000 times older than our most
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famous human ancestor, formed at the
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dawn of the solar system, long before
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dinosaurs ruled the
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Earth. This is spaceime. Still to come,
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discovery of a new upper limit for the
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massive neutrinos and intriguing Martian
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rock outcrops discovered on the rim of
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Jezro crater. All that and more still to
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A new study has discovered the mass of
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one of the most enigmatic particles in
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the universe, the neutrino. The results
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show that the nutrino's mass is less
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than 0.45 electron volts. In other
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words, less than a millionth the mass of
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an electron. The findings reported in
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the journal Science reduces the
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particles known mass range by a factor
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of two. It tightens the constraints on
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one of the universe's most elusive
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fundamental particles and pushes the
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boundaries of science beyond the
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standard model of particle physics. The
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cornerstone of science's understanding
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of the
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universe. Nutrinos are elemental
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subatomic particles. They're generated
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through radioactive decay in stars, in
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supernova, in nuclear explosions, in
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particle accelerators, and in atomic
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reactors. The nutrina is shown named
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because it's electrically neutral and
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because its rest mass is so small, it
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was once thought to be zero. They are
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the most common form of matter in the
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universe, having almost no mass and
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capable of being accelerated to almost
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the speed of light. Nutrinos come in
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three known types or flavors. Electron
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neutrinos, neon neutrinos, and town
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neutrinos. Each with their own specific
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properties. Now, confusingly, the three
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flavors of nutrinos don't line up with
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the three suspected mass species. It
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seems that each of the three flavors is
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made up of a quantum mixture of the
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three mass species. So, for example, a
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particular town neutrino has bits of all
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three mass species in it. And those
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different mass species seem to oscillate
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between the three flavors. For example,
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an electron neutrino produced in say a
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beta decay reaction could interact in
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distant detector as a muon or tow
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nutrino. Now although they don't have
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any electric charge, neutrinos do have
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their own corresponding antimatter
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counterparts identified by their
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opposite kirality or handedness.
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Neutrinas interact with other matter
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only through gravity and the weak
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nuclear force. In fact, they're so
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weakly interactive that right now
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several trillion are passing through you
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every second and you don't even notice
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them. Precisely measuring the nutrino
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mass is therefore essential for a
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complete understanding of the
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fundamental laws of physics.
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Now the other key term in this research
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is the electron volt. That's a basic
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unit of particle energy. The amount of
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energy lost or gained by a single
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electron accelerating from rest through
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an electric potential difference of 1
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volt in a vacuum. And thanks to
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professor Albert Einstein's famous mass
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energy equivalence equation= mc^² energy
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equals mass times the speed of light
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squared. It's also used as a unit of
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particle mass in physics and astronomy.
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The new findings by the KL through
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tritium neutrino experiment Katron
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utilizes the beta decay of tritium an
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unstable hydrogen isotope to assess
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neutrino mass. The energy distribution
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of the electrons resulting from the
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decay enables a direct chyntatic
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determination of the nutrino's mass.
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Katrin uses a 70 m long beam line
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equipped with an intense tritium source
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and a highresolution spectrometer with a
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diameter of 10 m. This allows extremely
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precise nutrino mass determinations. The
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latest findings indicate neutrinos are
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at least a million times lighter than
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electrons, which are the lightest
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electrically charged elementary
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particles. But explaining this enormous
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mass difference remains a fundamental
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challenge for theoretical particle
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physics. Starting next year, a new
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detector system Tristan will be
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installed. This upgrade to the
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experiment will allow scientists to
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search for a hypothetical sterile
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particle which interacts even more
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favorably than no neutrinos. In fact,
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with the mass expected to be in the kilo
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electron volt range, a sterile neutrino
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is potentially a candidate for dark
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matter. This is spacetime. Still to
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come, intriguing Martian rocky outcrops
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discovered on the rim of Jezro crater.
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And later in the science report, it
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seems the weather really does now
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suddenly go from boiling to freezing a
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lot more than it used to. All that and
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more still to come on
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Spaceime. NASA's Mars Perseverance
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rovers discovered a cornucopia full of
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intriguing rocky outcrops on the rim of
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Jezro Crater. Mission managers said the
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diversity of the rock types along the
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crater's edge are offering scientists a
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wide glimpse of Martian history. See,
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studying rocks, boulders, and outcrops
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help scientists understand the planet's
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evolution history and the potential for
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past or even present habitability. Since
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January, the rover's ced five rock
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samples on the crater rim, sealing
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samples from three of them in its sample
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tubes. It's also performed close-up
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analysis of seven rocks and analyzed
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another 83 from afar by zapping them
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with a laser and monitoring the spectral
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emissions of the vapor being released.
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In fact, this has been the mission's
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fastest science collection tempo since
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the six world mobile laboratory first
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landed on the red planet 4 years ago.
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Perseverance spent 3 and 1/2 months
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climbing the western wall of Jezro
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crater, eventually reaching the rim on
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December the 12th last year. It's
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currently exploring a roughly 135 m tall
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slope which the science team calls witch
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hazel hill. The diversity of the rocks
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found there has gone far beyond
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expectations. Perseverance project
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scientist Katie Stack Morgan from NASA's
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena,
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California says that during previous
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science campaigns in Jezro, it would
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take several months to find a rock that
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was significantly different from the
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last rock sampled and scientifically
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unique enough for sampling. But up there
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on the rim, there are new and intriguing
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rocks everywhere. The overturns. That's
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because Jezro Crater's western rim
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contains tons of fragmented, once molten
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rocks that were knocked out of their
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subterranean home billions of years ago
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by one or more meteor impacts, including
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possibly the one that produced Jezro
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Crater in the first place. Perseverance
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is finding these formerly underground
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boulders just to position with
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wellpreserved layered rocks that were
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born billions of years ago on what would
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become the crater's rim. Perseverance
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collected its first crater rim rock
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sample named Silver Mountain back on
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January the 28th. NASA scientists
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informally named Martian features
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including rocks and separate rock
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samples in order to help keep track of
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them. The rock it came from called
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Shallow Bay most likely formed at least
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3.9 billion years ago during Mars's
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earliest geological period known as the
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Noin. And it may have been broken up and
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then recristallized during an ancient
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meteor impact. About 110 meters away
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from that sampling site is a rock
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outcrop that caught the science team's
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eye because it contains ignous minerals
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crystallized from magma from deep within
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the Martian crust. Ignous rocks can form
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deep underground from magma or from
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volcanic activity on the surface and
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they're excellent record keepers. That's
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because the mineral crystals within them
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preserve details about the precise
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moment they were formed. But after two
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cing attempts in early February fizzled
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due to the rock being so crumbly, the
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rover drove about 160 m northwest to
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another scientifically intriguing rock
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named Tablelands. Data from the rover's
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instruments indicate that Tablelands is
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made of almost entirely serpentine
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minerals. They were formed when large
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amounts of water reacted with iron and
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magnesium bearing minerals in ignous
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rock. During this process, the rock's
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original structure is minologically
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changed, often causing it to expand and
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fracture. Byproducts of this process
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sometimes include hydrogen gas which can
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lead to the generation of methane in the
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presence of carbon dioxide and on Earth
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these sorts of rocks are known to
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support microbial colonies. Corig
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tablelands went smoothly but selling it
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in the canister became an engineering
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challenge. Over 13 souls or Martian days
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mission managers used the tool to brush
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out the top of the tube 33 times making
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eight sealing attempts. Finally, at the
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start of March, a combination of flicks
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and brushings cleaned the tubes top
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enough for Perseverance to seal and
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store the serpentine laden rock sample.
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8 days later, the rover had no issues
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sealing a third sample rock, this one
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called Main River. The alternating
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bright and dark bands of this rock were
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like nothing seen before by the science
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team. Following the collection of the
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main river sample, the rovers continued
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exploring Witch Hazel Hill, analyzing
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three more rocky outcrops, Sally's
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Grove, Dennis Pond, and Mount Pearl.
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incogn. And time now to take another
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brief look at some of the other stories
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making news in science this week with a
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science report. Well, if you feel like
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the weather's suddenly going from
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boiling hot to freezing cold more than
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it used to, you may well be right. A new
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study reported in the journal Nature
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Communications shows that Australia is
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one of the regions in the world where
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rapid temperature flips from hot to cold
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or vice versa are occurring most
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frequently. Researchers found that these
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flips have increased in frequency,
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intensity, and transition speed since
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1961.
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In fact, the studies found that
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Australia seen some of the largest
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increases in frequency of these
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temperature flips over the past 60
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years. A new study claims that lab grown
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chicken nuggets could be a reality in
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the near future. A report in the journal
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Trends in Biotechnology claims the
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prediction comes after researchers
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produced over 10 g of cultured chicken
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muscle. The authors used a holo fiber
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bioreactor which mimics the circulatory
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system to deliver nutrients and oxygen
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to artificial tissue and a robot
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assisted assembly system then produces
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bite-sized pieces of whole cut chicken
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meat using chicken fiberblast cells
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which make up connective tissue. While
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researchers say they're still working to
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improve the taste and texture, the
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technology could one day provide a
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sustainable, ethical alternative to
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conventional meat, as well as a platform
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for regenerative medicine like growing
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organs and for soft
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robots. Psychologists are now warning
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about the potential dangers of having a
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relationship with your AI chatbot. In an
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opinion piece in the journal Trends in
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Cognitive Sciences, the authors say that
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because AI human relationships can seem
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easier than human human relationships,
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AIs could interfere with normal human
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social dynamics. But the authors are
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also concerned that AIs can offer
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harmful advice. They note at least two
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people are known to have killed
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themselves following AI chatbot advice.
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And while these suicides are an extreme
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example of this negative influence, the
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researchers say that these close human
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AI relationships could open up people to
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manipulation, exploitation, and
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fraud. Tech giant Google has lost a
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major antitrust case in the United
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States. The US Justice Department
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together with 17 American states sued
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Google, arguing the tech giant was
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illegally dominating the technology
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which determines which advert should be
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placed online and where. This is the
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second antitrust case Google has lost in
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a year after it ruled the company also
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had monopoly on online search. With the
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details, we're joined by technology
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editor Alex Sahara from
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techadvice.life. Well, a federal judge
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has ruled that Google has violated US
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antitrust laws and he says that they've
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done that by willfully acquiring and
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maintaining monopoly power in the ad
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market. Now, the actual advertising
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business itself was not seen to be a
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monopoly, but the publisher side ad tech
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did constitute illegal monopolization.
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Now, there's fines of potentially up to
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$100 million for corporations and a
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million dollars for individuals. And
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look, a judgment is yet to be made on
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what's going to happen. You could see
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Google forced to divest some of its ad
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business. And really, Google is not a
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search engine. It's really an
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advertising business. It's more than
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just the divestment. It could see the
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the entire conglomerate broken up,
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couldn't it? Well, anything is possible.
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And that would put into question how
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strong Google's AI systems will be
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because I mean, I'm sure it relies upon
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lots of different information from all
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these different sources. One of the
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things we saw with Elon Musk is that his
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XAI business, which produces Grock and
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has 200,000 of those special Nvidia
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chips in a in a massive computing
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system. I mean, it purchased the X
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platform for US $33 billion. And that
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gives Brock the ability to mine
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trillions of exposts for the most
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upto-date information. So this battle is
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being fought across several fronts. And
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look, it is true that Google does have a
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very strong a massively strong position
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in advertising and that's why the
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Sherman antitrust laws were put in
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place. Now judges ruled that Google is
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in violation. And 2025 is going to be a
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very interesting year. New update for
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iPhones. Yeah.
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18.4.1. I mean, it's also available for
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the iPads. There's updates for your Macs
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and Apple TVs and you know other
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devices. But this particular one besides
00:24:17.120 --> 00:24:19.269
the usual security bug fixes, it also
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fixes a problem where sometimes your
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phone, your iPhone is not connecting to
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your CarPlay. I haven't particularly
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seen that one myself, but that is
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definitely a reason to upgrade. And
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Apple is also saying that we should
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expect to see more Apple intelligence
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features in the US fall, which is the
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Australian spring. It's a little bit
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behind on its AI features, but it's
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trying obviously as hard as possible to
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catch up because this is the new
00:24:41.039 --> 00:24:46.800
reality. That's Alex Aaravo from
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