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[Space Bites] JWST Damage Assessment, Two New Mars Helicopters, Teaching Robots to Die

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What Are Your Chances of Getting Hit by a Piece of Space Junk?

The chances of getting hit by a piece of space debris are very low. Researchers have estimated the chances of an upcoming piece of space junk actually killing someone as about six to ten percent over the next decade. Two more helicopters are going to mars, which will gather samples and fly them back home to earth. There's a pretty cool easter egg in google. If you search for ingenuity or ingenuity copter, you get this tiny, little ingenuity helicopter flying around on your search engine. Pretty cold. We might need to teach robots how to die.

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