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This Month's Covers....
Front Cover: Artist's illustration of the twin MarCO CubeSats during Mars Flyby, November 26, 2018. The pair were the first
CubeSats to operate in deep space from a Mars distance of 160 million kilometers as a relay for the InSight Mars lander. They
used a UHF antenna to receive entry/descend/landing data from InSight and an X-band deployable antenna to relay the
Insight data to Earth.
Back Cover: Image credit: ©istockphoto.com/Thibault Renard.

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