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Mont Blanc
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The first recorded ascent of Mont Blanc was on 8 August 1786 by Jacques Balmat and the doctor Michel Paccard. This climb, initiated by Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, who gave a reward for the successful ascent, traditionally marks the start of modern mountaineering. The first woman to reach the summ...
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Warsaw radio mast
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The Warsaw radio mast was the world's tallest structure until its collapse on 8 August 1991. It is the second tallest land-based structure ever built, being surpassed as tallest by the Burj Khalifa, completed in 2010. Read more
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X-48C aircraft
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Transformed X-48c Flies Successfully The remotely piloted X-48C aircraft successfully flew for the first time Tuesday at Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert. The aircraft, designed by The Boeing Co. and built by Cranfield Aerospace Limited of the United Kingdom, is flying agai...
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Mount Ngauruhoe
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Visitors are being warned not to enter the crater of Mt Ngauruhoe in Tongariro National Park, New Zealand, due to an increase in its volcanic alert level.
The Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences says very small earthquakes under the volcano have increased over the past month to up to 50...
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Meddies
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Marine scientists have now figured out a way to "see through" the ocean's surface and detect what's below, with the help of satellites in space.
Using sensor data from several U.S. and European satellites, researchers from the University of Delaware, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the...
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DigitalGlobe and GeoEye
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DigitalGlobe and GeoEye agree to combine to create a global leader in earth imagery and geospatial analysis. DigitalGlobe, Inc. and GeoEye, Inc., today announced that the boards of directors of both companies have unanimously approved a definitive merger agreement under which the companies wi...
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B612 Foundation
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Asteroid hunters announce private deep space mission Details have been released of an ambitious asteroid-hunting mission that a Californian non-profit organisation hopes to launch later this decade. The Sentinel infrared telescope would be put in space to find and track potentially hazardou...
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The National Aeronautics and Space Act
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The National Aeronautics and Space Act (Pub.L. 85-568) is the United States federal statute that created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The Act, which followed close on the heels of the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik, was drafted by the United States House Select Com...
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Tangshan earthquake
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Commemorations have been held in Tangshan in China to mark 30 years since a massive earthquake devastated the city.
Over 1,000 people attended a ceremony to remember those who died when the magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck in the early morning of 28 July 1976.
About 240,000 people died, accor...
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Ferrigno Ice Stream
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Hidden rift valley discovered beneath West Antarctica reveals new insight into accelerating Scientists have discovered a one mile deep rift valley hidden beneath the ice in West Antarctica, which they believe is contributing to ice loss from this part of the continent. Experts from the Universi...
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Sambalpur planetarium
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Sambalpur to get a planetarium soon After state capital of Bhubaneswar, second planetarium of Odisha is all set to come up at a cost of Rs 12 crore in Sambalpur shortly. Five acres of land had been selected for the construction of the planetarium near Jyoti Vihar and Hirakud dam at Burla town. [url=htt...
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ARIANNA
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Neutrinos: Clues to the Most Energetic Cosmic Rays We're constantly being peppered by showers of debris from cosmic rays colliding with atoms in the atmosphere. Cosmic rays aren't actually rays, of course, they're particles; ninety percent are protons, the nuclei of hydrogen atoms, and most of t...
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Timmins mid-latitude balloon base
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France boldly enters next frontier in space exploration Timmins, the Northeastern Ontario mining city will become home to a new space-balloon launch site, a partnership between the Canadian Space Agency and France's Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES). Canada's space agency is committ...
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Surrey Satellite Technology group
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Surrey Satellite Technology group is exhibiting at the 22nd Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites in Utah, 11th-14th August. Located on stand 13, an experienced UK and US team will be on-hand throughout the conference to answer questions about the companys small satellite platforms, t...
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Rob McNaught
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Scottish astronomer discovers record haul of comets The month that sees the end of British Summer Time brings views of a wide swath of the heavens that reaches from the best of our summer stars in the evening to the glorious winter's sky around Orion before dawn. We might also see all of the planets of th...
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