By the time the Khartoum-based team arrived in Cairo, the site had been converted into a holy place by the Khaledi sect of Islam, which has been a major force in the country for generations.The site is now known as al-Khyber Pass, and a group of scientists led by Egyptian-Canadian Paul Oosting and the Swiss-American […]
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Why it’s been a year since the US landed on Mars
New research from the University of Wyoming shows that the lander it landed on in 2013 was not the first rover to land on Mars.The lander landed on a desert region called Ganymede, a name derived from the Greek word for “sea” and the Greek “god.”The research is part of a larger effort to understand […]
How to watch the live stream of the Bering Strait land bridge landing on a live video feed from the US Coast Guard headquarters on the Pacific Ocean
Posted by The Coast Guard on Wednesday, December 12, 2018 12:30:01 The US Coast Guardsman aboard the bering island barge that crashed off the coast of Bering Island, Alaska, on Sunday had to be airlifted to a hospital in the city of Anchorage for a serious neck injury.The barge, carrying about 1,000 people, capsized in […]
What the future holds for the US Army’s first helicopter landing vehicle
The Army’s Army Aviation Command is moving forward with its next-generation helicopter landing system (HLS), which the agency says will be able to operate up to a mile (3 kilometers) from the ground.The AH-64D Apache has been the Army’s main land-attack helicopter since it entered service in 2010.The aircraft is now capable of operating up […]
How to make your way through a space shuttle landing
The final countdown of the Apollo 17 mission was a chaotic affair.It began just after midnight, when controllers decided to use the first of four landing legs to bring down the capsule, and then a final touchdown on the lunar surface.That second leg, known as “Soyuz,” took only two minutes to complete, and the rest […]
