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LUN= AR=C2=A0DUST AUCTIONED FOR $500,000
Thursday, April 14, 2022
In this newsletter, we explore = a private sale from a key NASA mission= , today’s anniversary of the Titanic’s= deadly end, Dolphin Day, forest elephants hurt from climate change … and the superpower of bats=2E
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NASA
By Victoria Jaggard

St= icky dust=2E A shady museum director=2E A lawsuit against NASA=2E These are= just some of the unusual players in a drama that started in 1969 and culmi= nated this week at a New York City auction house=2E

The dust comes = from the first sample astronaut Neil Armstrong = scooped up from the surface of the moon during Apollo 11 (pi= ctured above, fellow Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin)=2E Normally NASA is highly protective of any lunar samples fro= m the Apollo missions, even conducting a sting operation outside a Denny&#x= 2019;s to get back a piece of moon rock=2E But due to a s= tring of bizarre events, five samples of moon dust ultimately became so= me of the few bits of Apollo material that can be sold legally; they went t= o a bidder Wednesday at auction for a little more than $500,000=2E

= Space scientists have had mixed reactions to the sale, a= s Maya Wei-Haas reports=2E “The obli= gatory response is that every sample is important and can tell you somethin= g new,” Baylor University’s Peter James told her=2E NASA, however, only got to analyze this dust when they v= erified its authenticity, and the grains are only a small fraction of the l= unar samples the agency holds for scientific study=2E Still, pristine bits = of the moon are not easy to come by on Earth, other experts contend=2E Mean= while, space lawyers are intrigued by what this sale might mean for future = attempts to extract and use resources from space—an issue that is al= ready stirring debate=2E

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BONHAMS

What $500,000 gets you: The auctioned lunar du= st sold Wednesday (pictured above) was sprinkled atop a= luminum stubs and bound with a layer of carbon tape=2E

Readers, please consider supporting our storytelling for stories like th= ese by subscribing here=2E Thanks!
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U=2ES=2E agency accidentally kills nearly 3,000 animals, = including foxes (like those pictured above)
R=2EI=2EP=2E Masha the Bear, who dies 10 days after her escape from Uk= raine
Video: Dive deep into the world of seahorses
CDC hid report of suspected COVID crossover= from animals for months
It was 110 years ago today: The sinking of = the Titanic
The last days of Jesus
PHOTO OF THE DAY
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I come to drink your … water: A tent-ma= king bat flies down to a pond in Ecuador’s section of the Amazon=2E = Photographer Javier Aznar saw this and other ba= ts swooping down to the pond to drink=2E He never thought he’d get a= quality image at night=2E Bats have the fastest horizontal movement of any= animal on earth and a built-in sonar system, Nat Geo reports=2E “= ;It is clear that bats really do have superpowers,” says ecologist a= nd Nat Geo Explorer = Rodrigo Medell=C3=ADn=2E
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EARTH MONTH: ARTICLE O= F THE DAY
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT
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Saving the elephants: The rainforests of Gabon= are some of the last strongholds for forest elephants, whose numbers in Ce= ntral Africa have suffered a dramatic decline=2E Researchers have discovere= d that Earth’s warming temperatures could be lowering the fruit yiel= d of many species of the rainforest trees, which in turn seems to be causin= g forest elephants to go hungry, National Geographic’s May issue reports= =2E (Pictured above, a forest elephant reaching for fruit fr= om a tree in Gabon’s Lop=C3=A9 National Park=2E)
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I love Sumatran rhinos =2E=2E=2E They choose to live far from human activi= ties, and even from other animals=2E They don't like noise=2E They are shy = yet they are so strong=2E They need very high privacy but this does not mea= n they are selfish=2E
 
Rudi Putra
Conservation biologist, Nat Geo Explorer
THE LAST GLIMPSE
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It’s Dolphin Day! Seriously=2E April 14= is set aside as a national day to raise awareness of one of our highly int= elligent, iconic marine mammals=2E In the last several decades the day has = been recognized, scientists have learned much about the more than 40 specie= s of dolphins=2E (Pictured above, Nat Geo Explorer Brian Sk= erry captures an image of a school of dusk= y dolphins in Argentina=2E) See more of ou= r most intimate dolphin photographs=2E
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