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Detecting plastics from space and how rovers can think for themselves

Are We There Yet? by Central Florida Public Media

Feb 25, 202628:00Religion & Spirituality

NASA's EMIT mission uses a spectrometer to detect dusts and minerals from space, and it now can detect plastics from land. Plus, the Mars rovers can move around the red planet and do science, without human help.

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Detecting plastics from space and how rovers can think for themselves is an episode from Are We There Yet? by Central Florida Public Media. NASA's EMIT mission uses a spectrometer to detect dusts and minerals from space, and it now can dete...

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Published Feb 25, 2026, 28:00 long, audio available.