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Before we go, here’s your random trivia of the day:

Tonight, as you gaze upon the full moon, think of Eugene Shoemaker, one of the founders of planetary science and the first and only person to be buried up there. In 1997, some of his ashes were laid to rest near the moon’s southern pole.

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