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Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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The Largest Space Dust Detector Ever
The solar panels of juno turn out to be pretty sensitive to space dust. This effectively became the large space dust detector ever by a factor of a thousand. They captured more than 15 thousand of these collisions, which lets them make a really detailed measurement of the density of dust in the inner solar system. It ends like a sort of just after mars, there's basically no dust after mars, until you get jupiter.
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