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NASA Mars Rover Fully Analyzes First Soil Samples

PASADENA, Calif. – NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has used its full array of instruments to analyze Martian soil for the first time, and found a complex chemistry within the Martian soil. Water and sulfur and chlorine-...
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Geographic information system

Geographic information system (GIS) is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of geographical data. The acronym GIS is sometimes used for geographical information science or geos...
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ESA’S VEGA LAUNCHER SCORES NEW SUCCESS WITH PROBA-V

The second flight of ESA’s newest launch vehicle has been completed from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Two Earth observation satellites, ESA’s Proba-V and Vietnam’s VNREDSat‑1A, were released into diffe...
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Google Maps for iPad Has Mileage with Latest EggMaps Update

PERTH, Australia, May 6, 2013 — (PRNewswire) —  Mike Cunneen today announces EggMaps HD 1.05, an update to his popular #1-ranked navigation app for iPad that provides Google Maps at full-screen high resolution. Version 1....
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New Public Application of Landsat Images Released

Google released more than a quarter-century of images of Earth taken from space Thursday compiled into an interactive time-lapse experience. Working with data from the Landsat Program managed by the U.S. Geological Survey, the ...
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NASA and Amateur Radio Operators Piece Together the PhoneSat Picture

Although the ultimate goal of the PhoneSat mission was to determine whether a consumer-grade smartphone can be used as the main flight avionics for a satellite in space, the three miniature satellites (named Alexander, Graham a...
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