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NASA-JPL-ASU/Provided NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance poses in a planetary selfie last September with the formation known as “Rochette.”

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Provided Cornell scientists synthesized the physical characteristics of lava in a laboratory furnace to create a new catalog to help James Webb Space Telescope researchers find volcanic exoplanets.

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