The atmosphere is magical, with light filtering through the canopy and reflecting the twisted shapes of the trees on the water’s mirror-like surface.The fishers from the Indigenous Munduruku community cast their nets while we wait in the boat. The crescent moon is already visible when we ...
Now it is an ideal space tracking station. Any vehicle on a mission in the southern half of the heavens remains continuously "visible" to an antenna at the pole. Such a station is also able to play a unique role in interrogating earth satellites in orbit over both poles. Such satellites-...
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The flaw in the model, as I see it, is that the content side doesn’t just think “it’s okay when we do it.” It would be easier to swallow if that were the going premise, openly admitted. No, it’s that they insist up-and-down that rules are absolutely necessary for everyone....
Washington DC has a unique grid layout which is often extremely frustrating for visitors. The city is laid out in quadrants centered on the US Capitol, and this shows up in the addresses you’ll see around the city. Addresses in the district look like this: 101 Any Street, NW. The NW ...
2017) and even higher when travelling to the Moon or Mars. Thus, exposure to radiation needs to be considered particularly when thinking of long-duration missions into deep space (out of Earth’s magnetic field), as it is the case for a mission to Mars. This is because radiation-induced ...