Atlantic Ocean Storms: Lightning & Clouds | International Space Station

Atlantic Ocean Storms: Lightning & Clouds | International Space Station

This nebula-like formation is actually lightning illuminating the clouds during a storm off the coast of North Carolina in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 260 miles above the Atlantic Ocean.

Lightining illuminates the cloud tops during a storm underneath Earth's atmospheric glow in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 259 miles above the Atlantic Ocean east of the Bahamas.

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Expedition 73 Crew

Station Commander: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Flight Engineer Takuya Onishi
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Kirill Peskov, Sergey Ryzhikov, Alexey Zubritskiy

NASA Flight Engineers: Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers, Jonny Kim

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.

Learn more about the important research being operated on Station:
https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science

For more information about STEM on Station:

https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation
Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM)

Image Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center
Image Dates: May 15-18, 2025

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China Makes Progress in Power Generation & Storage for Mars Infrastructure

China Makes Progress in Power Generation & Storage for Mars Infrastructure

Chinese scientists have made progress in power generation and storage on Mars in terms of how to effectively use resources there to ensure the energy supply for conducting long-term research and stationing researchers on the planet in the future.

Experts have pointed out that in the future, leveraging gases on Mars for energy and resource utilization, including power generation, energy storage, heating, oxygen production, and fuel production, could enable the development of an integrated energy system utilizing the atmospheric environment of Mars.

For example, the average temperature on the surface of Mars is approximately minus 63 degrees Celsius. The waste heat from the low-temperature range of a power generation system could address the thermal energy supply at research stations on Mars.

Additionally, the mid-temperature and high-temperature ranges of Martian gases can respectively serve as reaction gases for methane production and high-temperature electrolysis for oxygen production. This process transforms the abundant carbon and oxygen atoms in Martian gases into valuable resources, such as oxygen and methane fuel essential for exploration missions.

"To conduct research on Mars, we need a multitude of detection equipment, and research stations to be set up. These research stations and detection equipment rely on energy as a fundamental guarantee. When considering setting up an energy system on Mars, we need to devise solutions in line with local conditions. This research marks a new starting point. It can be said that there is still a long way to go," said Shi Lingfeng, a researcher at the University of Science and Technology of China.

Video Credit: CCTV
Duration: 2 minutes 34 seconds
Release Date: June 7, 2025

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SpaceX Starship Super Heavy Booster Static Fire: Pre-10th Flight | Starbase Texas

SpaceX Starship Super Heavy Booster Static Fire: Pre-10th Flight | Starbase Texas

A Starship Super Heavy Booster completed a long duration six-engine static fire on June 6, 2025, and is undergoing final preparations for the tenth SpaceX Starship flight test.

Read SpaceX's Ninth Test Flight Report: 

https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=starship-flight-9

SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket—collectively referred to as Starship—represent a fully reusable transportation system designed to carry crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars and beyond. Starship is the world’s most powerful launch vehicle ever developed, capable of carrying up to 150 metric tonnes fully reusable and 250 metric tonnes expendable.

Key Starship Parameters:

Height: 123m/403ft
Diameter: 9m/29.5ft
Payload to LEO: 100–150t (fully reusable)

"Starship is essential to both SpaceX’s plans to deploy its next-generation Starship system as well as for NASA, which will use a lunar lander version of Starship for landing astronauts on the Moon during the Artemis III mission through the Human Landing System (HLS) program."

Learn more about Starship:

https://www.spacex.com/vehicles/starship/

Download the Free Starship User Guide (PDF):

https://www.spacex.com/media/starship_users_guide_v1.pdf

Video Credit: Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX)

Duration: 20 seconds

Release Date: June 6, 2025

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Earth Weather Satellites Monitor Canadian Wildfires & Smoke | NOAA

Earth Weather Satellites Monitor Canadian Wildfires & Smoke | NOAA

Since mid-May, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellites have been closely monitoring heat signatures and thick plumes of smoke (several stretching thousands of miles) from wildfires burning across Canada. 

Driven by heat, drought, and dry conditions, more than 160 fires kicked off the country’s wildfire season, primarily in Manitoba, Ontario, and Saskatchewan. More blazes soon erupted in other provinces, including British Columbia, Alberta, Quebec, and Newfoundland and Labrador. The escalating situation forced thousands to evacuate, prompted states of emergency in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, and has been impacting air quality in the United States as the smoke drifts southward.

Learn more about this event and how NOAA satellites have been monitoring the blazes: 
https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/news/noaa-satellites-monitor-canadian-wildfires-and-smoke

Video Credits: NOAA, NASA, The Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)
Duration: 2 minutes
Release Date: June 5, 2025

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¿Qué pasa en el cielo en junio?

¿Qué pasa en el cielo en junio?

¡Atención, exploradores del cielo! Este mes, la galaxia nos muestra todo su esplendor. 🔭 

• Junio marca el inicio de la temporada principal para admirar la Vía Láctea: esa banda brumosa que se arquea por el cielo durante toda la noche. Solo necesitarás un cielo oscuro, lejos de las luces de la ciudad. 

• A mediados de mes, Marte pasará muy cerca de Regulus, el corazón de la constelación de Leo. Con binoculares o telescopio, podrás verlos a una distancia tan corta como el ancho de la luna llena. 

• Y el 20 de junio, llega el solsticio: el día más largo del año en el hemisferio norte, y el más corto en el sur.  

Aprende más sobre el cielo y encuentra más consejos y guías para disfrutarlo en https://ciencia.nasa.gov/observaciondelcielo/

Video Credit: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)/NASA en Español
Duration: 4 minutes, 33 seconds
Release Date: June 6, 2025

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Planet Mars Images: June 3-6, 2025 | NASA's Curiosity & Perseverance Rovers

Planet Mars Images: June 3-6, 2025 | NASA's Curiosity & Perseverance Rovers

MSL - Sol 4558

MSL - Sol 4561

MSL - Sol 4561

MSL - Sol 4559

Mars 2020 - Sol 1526

MSL - Sol 4560

Mars 2020 - Sol 1524

Mars 2020 - Sol 1523

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Celebrating 12+ Years on Mars (2012-2024)

Mission Name: Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)

Rover Name: Curiosity

Main Job: To determine if Mars was ever habitable to microbial life. 

Launch: Nov. 6, 2011

Landing Date: Aug. 5, 2012, Gale Crater, Mars

Celebrating 4+ Years on Mars

Mission Name: Mars 2020

Rover Name: Perseverance

Main Job: Seek signs of ancient life and collect samples of rock and regolith (broken rock and soil) for return to Earth.

Launch: July 30, 2020    

Landing: Feb. 18, 2021, Jezero Crater, Mars

For more information on NASA's Mars missions, visit: mars.nasa.gov

Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS

Processing: Kevin M. Gill

Image Release Dates: June 3-6, 2025

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NASA "Espacio A Tierra" | Una misión para inspirar: 30 de mayo 2025

NASA "Espacio A Tierra" | Una misión para inspirar: 30 de mayo 2025

Espacio a Tierra, la versión en español de las cápsulas Space to Ground de la NASA, te informa semanalmente de lo que está sucediendo en la Estación Espacial Internacional.

Aprende más sobre la ciencia a bordo de la estación espacial: https://www.nasa.gov/international-space-station/space-station-research-and-technology/ciencia-en-la-estacion/

Ciencia de la NASA: https://ciencia.nasa.gov

Para obtener más información sobre la ciencia de la NASA, suscríbete al boletín semanal: https://www.nasa.gov/suscribete

Video Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center 
Duration: 4 minutes
Release Date: June 5, 2025

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NASA's Space to Ground: Building a Sustainable Economy | Week of June 6, 2025

NASA's Space to Ground: Building a Sustainable Economy | Week of June 6, 2025

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station. The Expedition 73 crew is preparing to welcome the arrival of Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) and its four astronauts to the International Space Station next week. Ax-4 is targeted to launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 8:22 a.m. EDT on June 10, 2025, aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. Veteran astronaut Peggy Whitson will command Ax-4 and lead Indian Pilot Shubhanshu Shukla and Mission Specialists Sławosz Uzanański-Wiśniewksi from Poland and Tibor Kapu from Hungary to the orbital outpost. The Ax-4 astronauts will ride inside Dragon for an autonomous docking to the station’s space-facing port on the Harmony module at 12:30 p.m. on June 11.

Follow Expedition 73:
https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 73 Crew

Station Commander: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Flight Engineer Takuya Onishi
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Kirill Peskov, Sergey Ryzhikov, Alexey Zubritskiy

NASA Flight Engineers: Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers, Jonny Kim

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.

Learn more about the important research being operated on Station:
https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science

For more information about STEM on Station:

https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation
Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM)

Video Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center 
Duration: 2 minute, 52 seconds
Release Date: June 6, 2025

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Japan's ispace Resilience Lunar Lander | Mission 2 Status Update

Japan's ispace Resilience Lunar Lander | Mission 2 Status Update

FriendsofNASA.org: As of 8:00 a.m. on June 6, 2025, Japan Standard Time (JST), mission controllers have determined that it is unlikely that communication with the lander will be restored and therefore completing Success 9 is not achievable. It has been decided to conclude the mission.

ispace engineers at the HAKUTO-R Mission Control Center in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, transmitted commands to execute the landing sequence at 3:13 a.m. on June 6, 2025. The RESILIENCE lander then began the descent phase. The lander descended from an altitude of approximately 100 km to approximately 20 km, and then successfully fired its main engine as planned to begin deceleration. While the lander’s attitude was confirmed to be nearly vertical, telemetry was lost thereafter, and no data indicating a successful landing was received, even after the scheduled landing time had passed.

Based on the currently available data, the Mission Control Center has been able to confirm the following: The laser rangefinder used to measure the distance to the lunar surface experienced delays in obtaining valid measurement values. As a result, the lander was unable to decelerate sufficiently to reach the required speed for the planned lunar landing. Based on these circumstances, it is currently assumed that the lander likely performed a hard landing on the lunar surface.

After communication with the lander was lost, a command was sent to reboot the lander, but communication was unable to be re-established.

“Given that there is currently no prospect of a successful lunar landing, our top priority is to swiftly analyze the telemetry data we have obtained thus far and work diligently to identify the cause,” said Takeshi Hakamada, Founder and CEO of ispace.

Read more here: https://ispace-inc.com/news-en/?p=7664

ispace Mission 2 Press Conference: 
https://www.youtube.com/live/0yr1a-hf7SQ

Learn more about Mission 2: https://ispace-inc.com/m2

Credit: ispace

Release Date: June 5, 2025

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NASA Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Request Cuts to NASA HQ & Centers Nationwide

NASA Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Request Cuts to NASA HQ & Centers Nationwide

See details here: https://www.friendsofnasa.org/2025/06/19-active-science-missions-cancelled-in.html

NASA's Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Request represents an agency-wide 32% workforce funding reduction overall based on the NASA supplied table provided here. According to The Washington Post, this "would reduce the civilian workforce at the agency by 32% to around 11,900 employees." 

It is the smallest budget request for NASA since 1961, adjusted for inflation, according to The Planetary Society. NASA's total science budget has been cut by nearly 50% in the Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Request.

Contact your representatives in the United States Congress, House and Senate, to express your concerns for NASA's future:
https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials/

Summary of Fical Year 2026 Budget Request Year over Year (YoY) Cuts (2025 versus 2026)

Total NASA Workforce Budget                          32% Cut

NASA Headquarters (HQ)                                    26% Cut

Ames Research Center (ARC)                            38% Cut

Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC)  38% Cut

Glenn Research Center (GRC)                           40% Cut

Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)            46% Cut

Johnson Space Center (JSC)                              21% Cut

Kennedy Space Center (KSC)                           25% Cut

Langley Research Center (LaRC)                    39% Cut

Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)           23% Cut

Stennis Space Center (SSC)                                39% Cut

Office of Inspector General (OIG)                  10% Cut 

Worst affected: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Maryland is responsible for developing and operating spacecraft, instruments, and technology to study Earth, the Sun, our solar system, and the universe. Notable science missions managed by Goddard include NASA's Earth Observatories, the Hubble Space Telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, and many space and planetary exploration programs.

NASA Headquarters (HQ)
Washington, D.C.

https://www.nasa.gov

Ames Research Center (ARC)

Moffett Federal Airfield, California
https://www.nasa.gov/ames/

Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC)

Edwards, California
https://www.nasa.gov/armstrong/

Glenn Research Center (GRC)

Cleveland, Ohio

https://www.nasa.gov/glenn/

Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)

Greenbelt, Maryland

https://www.nasa.gov/goddard/

Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Houston, Texas

https://www.nasa.gov/johnson/

Kennedy Space Center (KSC)

Merritt Island, Florida

https://www.nasa.gov/kennedy/

Langley Research Center (LaRC)

Hampton, Virginia

https://www.nasa.gov/langley/

Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)

Hunstville, Alabama

https://www.nasa.gov/marshall/

Stennis Space Center (SSC)

Hancock County, Mississippi

https://www.nasa.gov/stennis/

NASA Office of Inspector General (OIG)

Washington, D.C.

https://oig.nasa.gov/

Review NASA's Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Request (PDF) Documents:

Download documents for free here: 
https://www.nasa.gov/fy-2026-budget-request/

Document List (6 total) as of May 30, 2025:

Fiscal Year 2026 Discretionary Budget Request

Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Request Summary (28 pages) [Recommended reading: Source of most images provided here]

Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Technical Supplement

Fiscal Year 2026 Agency Fact Sheet

Fiscal Year 2026 Mission Fact Sheets

Sources: NASA/The Planetary Society/NASA Watch/Marcia Smith of SpacePolicyOnline.com

Release Dates: May 30-31, 2025

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Japan's ispace Resilience Moon Mission Landing Site & Objectives

Japan's ispace Resilience Moon Mission Landing Site & Objectives

Overhead view of Resilience landing site in Mare Frigoris—the Sea of Cold—by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)

Resilience Mission 2 Objectives

Resilience Mission 2 Lunar Surface Ventures

Resilience Lunar Lander

Resilience Micro Rover

For its second mission, ispace aims to achieve a soft landing on the lunar surface. It will then deploy its proprietary Micro Rover to explore the Moon’s surface and collect regolith.

Based on experience gained during Mission 1, ispace engineers and operators in mission control have worked to significantly improve the accuracy and precision of maneuvers during Mission 2 and have confirmed that all seven subsystems of the Resilience lander were nominal prior to landing.

Learn more about Mission 2: https://ispace-inc.com/m2

Image Credits: NASA/ispace

Release Date: June 5, 2025

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“I get to fly spaceships. How cool is that?” | Japan's ispace Resilience Moon Mission

“I get to fly spaceships. How cool is that?” | Japan's ispace Resilience Moon Mission

Meet Katie Gilliam—Flight Director at ispace in Tokyo. 

From Houston to the Moon, Katie’s mission is fast-paced, meaningful, and just the beginning. 🌕

Watch her story.

ispace: "Join us to watch today's landing live!"

📡 Live stream begins on X @ispace_inc (tentative): June 6, 03:10 JST | June 5, 18:10 UTC | June 5, 14:10 EDT

🕖 Landing (Updated!): June 6, 04:17 JST | June 5, 19:17 UTC | June 5, 15:17 EDT

🔗 You can also watch with us here: 
http://ispace-inc.com/landing

Livestreams:

English: www.ispace-inc.com/landing
Japanese: https://ispace-inc.com/chakuriku

Based on experience gained during Mission 1, ispace engineers and operators in mission control have worked to significantly improve the accuracy and precision of maneuvers during Mission 2 and have confirmed that all seven subsystems of the Resilience lander are nominal.

Learn more: https://ispace-inc.com/m2

Video Credit: ispace

Duration: 2 minutes, 13 seconds

Release Date: May 14, 2025

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Japan's ispace Resilience Moon Mission Views: Pre-landing

Japan's ispace Resilience Moon Mission Views: Pre-landing

Japan's ispace Resilience Moon Lander - Feb. 15, 2025

The Resilience lunar lander successfully completed a flyby of the Moon on Feb. 15, 2025, coming within approximately 8,400 km of the lunar surface—a historic first of its type for a Japanese private, commercial lunar lander. This spectacular image of our celestial neighbor was taken by Resilience on Feb. 15, 2025 at an altitude of 14,439 km. 

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ispace: "Join us to watch today's landing live!"

📡 Live stream begins on X @ispace_inc (tentative): June 6, 03:10 JST | June 5, 18:10 UTC | June 5, 14:10 EDT

🕖 Landing (Updated!): June 6, 04:17 JST | June 5, 19:17 UTC | June 5, 15:17 EDT

🔗 You can also watch with us here: 
http://ispace-inc.com/landing

Livestreams:

English: www.ispace-inc.com/landing
Japanese: https://ispace-inc.com/chakuriku

Based on experience gained during Mission 1, ispace engineers and operators in mission control have worked to significantly improve the accuracy and precision of maneuvers during Mission 2 and have confirmed that all seven subsystems of the Resilience lander are nominal.

Learn more: https://ispace-inc.com/m2

Image Credit: ispace

Image Dates: Feb. 15-June 5, 2025

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ispace Resilience Moon Mission Landing Site

Japan's ispace Resilience Moon Mission Landing Site

ispace: "We’ve chosen Mare Frigoris—the Sea of Cold—as our landing site for Mission 2. This is where Resilience will touch down."

Stable terrain ✅

Rich regolith ✅

Scientific potential ✅

SMBC x Hakuto-R Venture Moon Mission 2 Resilience lunar lander Resilience status: nominal 

Distance above the Lunar surface: ca. 100 km 

Current orbital phase: Low lunar orbit, traveling at ca. 5,800 km/h

Join us to watch the landing live!

📡 Live stream begins on X @ispace_inc (tentative): June 6, 03:10 JST | June 5, 18:10 UTC | June 5, 14:10 EDT

🕖 Landing (Updated!): June 6, 04:17 JST | June 5, 19:17 UTC | June 5, 15:17 EDT

🔗 You can also watch with us here: http://ispace-inc.com/landing

Livestreams:

English: www.ispace-inc.com/landing
Japanese: https://ispace-inc.com/chakuriku

Based on experience gained during Mission 1, ispace engineers and operators in mission control have worked to significantly improve the accuracy and precision of maneuvers during Mission 2 and have confirmed that all seven subsystems of the Resilience lander are nominal.

Learn more: https://ispace-inc.com/m2

Image Credit: ispace

Release Date: April 21, 2025

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Earth View | Japan's ispace Resilience Moon Lander Mission

Earth View | Japan's ispace Resilience Moon Lander Mission

"On May 27th, Resilience looked back at us from lunar orbit, taking in a whole new view of an Earth rise from the Moon."

"If it weren't for the clouds, the lander could have likely seen Japan here, where it spent much of its time on Earth being carefully designed, assembled and tested by ispace crew. We're eagerly gazing back today as landing time approaches."

SMBC x HAKUTO-R Venture Moon Mission 2 Resilience lunar lander Resilience status: nominal 

Distance above the Lunar surface: ca. 100 km 

Current orbital phase: Low lunar orbit, traveling at ca. 5,800 km/h

Join us to watch the landing live!

📡 Live stream begins here on X (tentative): June 6, 03:10 JST | June 5, 18:10 UTC | June 5, 14:10 EDT

🕖 Landing (Updated!): June 6, 04:17 JST | June 5, 19:17 UTC | June 5, 15:17 EDT

🔗 You can also watch with us here: http://ispace-inc.com/landing

Livestreams:

English: www.ispace-inc.com/landing
Japanese: https://ispace-inc.com/chakuriku

Based on experience gained during Mission 1, ispace engineers and operators in mission control have worked to significantly improve the accuracy and precision of maneuvers during Mission 2 and have confirmed that all seven subsystems of the Resilience lander are nominal.

Learn more: https://ispace-inc.com/m2

Image Credit: ispace

Image Date: May 27, 2025

Release Date: June 5, 2025

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Waning Crescent Moon over Earth's Horizon | International Space Station

Waning Crescent Moon over Earth's Horizon | International Space Station

An external high definition camera adjusted for night sensitivity took this photograph of the waning crescent Moon above Earth's horizon as the International Space Station orbited into a sunrise 270 miles above the Atlantic Ocean.

Follow Expedition 73:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 73 Crew

Station Commander: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Flight Engineer Takuya Onishi
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Kirill Peskov, Sergey Ryzhikov, Alexey Zubritskiy

NASA Flight Engineers: Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers, Jonny Kim

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.

Learn more about the important research being operated on Station:
https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science

For more information about STEM on Station:

https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation
Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM)

Image Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center 
Image Date: May 25, 2025

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