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Curiosity gets a rock stuck to its drill. NASA releases over 12,000 images of the Artemis II mission. The new Pandora Space Telescope sees first light. How Io's lava lakes are hotter than we thought. And in Space Bites+, a meteorite that is very similar to the planet Mercury.

00:00 Intro
00:19 NASA Releases 12,000 Artemis II Photos
eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/ShowQueryResults-TextTable.pl?results=1778194875140121
02:15 Curiosity Lifting Rocks on Mars
science.nasa.gov/blog/curiosity-blog-sols-4879-4885-struggle-at-atacama
03:33 Pandora's first light
universetoday.com/articles/first-images-from-the-pandora-exoplanet-mission
05:31 ESPRESSO Telescope
universetoday.com/articles/the-paranal-solar-espresso-telescope-a-new-tool-for-finding-exoplanets
07:42 Io's superhot
universetoday.com/articles/we-might-have-massively-underestimated-ios-thermal-output
09:30 Radar drones
universetoday.com/articles/drones-scanning-earths-glaciers-are-paving-the-way-for-future-mars-helicopters
11:25 Vote results
11:51 Subaru on 3I/ATLAS
universetoday.com/articles/subaru-telescope-reveals-new-data-on-the-interior-composition-of-3iatlas
13:20 Superionic ice inside ice giants
universetoday.com/articles/a-new-quasi-1d-state-of-matter-could-be-hiding-inside-ice-giant-planets
15:34 More space news
16:50 My current obsessions


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