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Spokane Public Schools sixth grader Lilah Coyan was recently named a national finalist in NASA’s Power to Explore Challenge. The essay competition asks K-12 students to research the agency’s radioisotope power systems, which are used to power exploration in the most remote parts of space. Students are then asked to choose one of the many moons in our solar system and imagine their own unique exploration mission using that power. Out of more than 2,000 entries, Coyan’s essay dreaming up a rover on Jupiter’s second-largest moon, Callisto, was one of nine selected
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