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  "id": 28469,
  "title": "Sending repurposed Mars rover to the moon could cost more than $1 billion",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/07/31/sending-repurposed-mars-rover-to-the-moon-could-cost-more-than-1",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-07-31T20:53:43.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "SpaceNews",
    "slug": "spacenews",
    "url": "https://spacenews.com/sending-repurposed-mars-rover-to-the-moon-could-cost-more-than-1-billion/"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Converting an engineering model of a Mars rover into an actual lunar rover could cost NASA more than $1 billion, an estimate strongly rejected by the agency’s administrator. The post Sending repurposed Mars rover to the moon could cost more than $1 billion appeared first on SpaceNews .",
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      {
        "outlet": "ScienceDaily",
        "title": "NASA’s Curiosity rover finds a mysterious honeycomb landscape on Mars",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/01/nasas-curiosity-rover-finds-a-mysterious-honeycomb-landscape-on-mars",
        "published": "2026-08-01T13:47:24.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Slashdot",
        "title": "NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Discovers a Field of Honeycomb Textures",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/01/nasas-curiosity-mars-rover-discovers-a-field-of-honeycomb-textures",
        "published": "2026-08-01T21:39:00.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}