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What China’s mission to collect rocks from the far side could reveal about the Moon

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What China’s mission to collect rocks from the far side could reveal about the Moon

Later this week, China will embark on the world’s second-only trip to the Moon’s far side. The goal is to collect the first rocks from inside the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest impact crater on the lunar surface, and bring them back to Earth for analysis. A stack of four spacecraft needed … Read more

Scientists urged to collect royalties from the ‘magic money tree’

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Scientists urged to collect royalties from the ‘magic money tree’

Credit: Richard Drury/Getty “Lots of our members call us ‘the magic money tree’,” says Alison Baxter, head of communications for the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS), based in the United Kingdom. “They don’t really understand where the payments come from,” she says, “but they like getting them.” The ALCS is one of a global … Read more