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NASA Works to Remotely Fix Perseverance Rover on Mars

Plus: A science journal published a diagram of 'rat dck' generated by Midjourney AI.

Gizmodo Staff Published February 17, 2024, 9:07 am ET

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Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS / Photo: Wikimedia Commons / Photo: NASA/Erika Blumenfeld & Joseph Aebersold / Photo: Leon Neal (AP) / Image: Guo et al., Front. Cell Dev. Biol. 2024 / Image: SpaceX / Image: vetre (Shutterstock) / Image: Yonsei University / Illustration: Kateryna Kon (Shutterstock)

In our top science stories this week, SpaceX must deorbit 100 Starlink satellites due to a flaw; a person in Oregon caught the bubonic plague from their pet cat; and the Perseverance rover’s SHERLOC instrument is on the fritz. Oh, and a grotesque AI interpretation of rat genitalia somehow made it past peer review.

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