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This NASA-funded 'Slingshot' spacecraft idea could map minerals on planets and moons across our solar system

This NASA-funded 'Slingshot' spacecraft idea could map minerals on planets and moons across our solar systemWorldPing

NASA funded an early-stage concept aiming to show new techniques for mapping minerals on the moon, asteroids or Martian moons.

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