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Saturday, October 24, 2026 · Space · AI

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  1. Space On this day in space! Oct. 24, 1946: V-2 rocket takes 1st photos of Earth from space Space.com · Hanneke Weitering · Oct 24

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  2. Space A 1,000-mile cloud on Mars may reveal physics never seen in nature Ars Technica Space · Tereza Ondráčková, wired.com · Oct 24

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  3. Space Ice sheet expansion may have started 2,000 years ago, but we canceled that Ars Technica Space · Jacek Krywko · Oct 24

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  4. Space NASA lays out plan for Artemis 3 moon-lander test flight —but when will it launch? Space.com · Mike Wall · Oct 23

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  5. AI Broad access through consistent standards unverified OpenAI News · Oct 21
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  6. AI How AT&T is rethinking in-house legal work with OpenAI unverified OpenAI News · Oct 21

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Space

Ice sheet expansion may have started 2,000 years ago, but we canceled that

Barnes Ice Cap sits on the central plateau of Baffin Island, in the Canadian Arctic. It is the last surviving fragment of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, the largest of the Pleistocene ice sheets, which at its peak buried most of Canada under two miles of ice and locked away around 80 meters of sea level.

Ars Technica Space · Jacek Krywko · Oct 24

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AI

Broad access through consistent standards unverified

How OpenAI works with distribution partners to uphold consistent safeguards, support responsible access, and clarify expectations in our Usage Policies.

OpenAI News · Oct 21

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Space

NASA lays out plan for Artemis 3 moon-lander test flight —but when will it launch?

NASA just gave us our best look yet at its Artemis III moon-lander test flight. The agency laid out a detailed concept of operations for Artemis III today (Oct. 23) during a press conference at Kennedy Space Center, stressing how important the flight is to its moon plans and how challenging it will be to make everything go right.

Space.com · Mike Wall · Oct 23

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AI

How AT&T is rethinking in-house legal work with OpenAI unverified

AT&T is working with OpenAI to make legal knowledge easier to access. Learn how its LegalEdge team is rethinking intake and scaling legal judgment.

OpenAI News · Oct 21

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Two sources, one subject: what does each one report?

A · Space.com

On this day in space! Oct. 24, 1946: V-2 rocket takes 1st photos of Earth from space

On October 24, 1946, a V-2 rocket captured the first-ever photo of Earth from space. While these grainy, black-and-white images might not look like much today, they were a huge deal at the time, because no one had ever seen Earth from space before. The V-2 rocket launched from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

Space.com · Hanneke Weitering · Oct 24

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B · Ars Technica Space

A 1,000-mile cloud on Mars may reveal physics never seen in nature

Every morning during the Martian spring and summer, a thin and extremely long cloud emerges, only to disappear again. The wispy formation appears near the volcano Arsia Mons and gradually elongates until it reaches over 1,000 miles—about the distance from New York to Kansas City as the crow flies—before dissipating. This cycle then repeats for several months.

Ars Technica Space · Tereza Ondráčková, wired.com · Oct 24

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Two reports: Space.com and Ars Technica Space

Space.com reports: On October 24, 1946, a V-2 rocket captured the first-ever photo of Earth from space. Ars Technica Space reports: Every morning during the Martian spring and summer, a thin and extremely long cloud emerges, only to disappear again. The two reports share a subject but not a single event, so read them as two angles rather than one story. This review only restates what each source published. It does not add facts or opinions. Read both and decide for yourself.

Rests on Space.com and Ars Technica Space.