GPS and the farmer…
This image shows farmer Roy Bardole seated at the controls of his combine in a cornfield on a farm in Iowa. A GPS guidance system display is mounted at the top center on right side...
Science Spotlight
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Water channels discovered on Mars
New maps of the subsurface of Mars show for the first time buried channels below the surface of the red planet. Mars is considered to have been cold and dry over the past 2.5 billion...
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Samuel P. Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian, and his development of the ill-fated Aerodrome A
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Smithsonian planetary scientist Tom Watters explains how he knows the moon is shrinking
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Melting snow likely created fan deposits inside Martian craters, geologists say
Accumulations of drifting snow are the most plausible explanation for the presence of a number of puzzling alluvial fan deposits found inside large impact craters on Mars
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New mapping of Mars shows Medusae Fossae Formation older than once thought
Recent geologic mapping of the Medusae Fossae Formation on Mars—an intensely eroded deposit near the northern edge of the cratered highlands—has revealed a wider distribution of its western component than was previously recognized.
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The Space Shuttle Discovery, mounted atop a 747 jet, is delivered to the Smithsonian on April 17, 2012
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Shuttle “Discovery” transferred to Smithsonian by NASA
NASA transferred the space shuttle Discovery to the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum during a ceremony on Thursday, April 19, at the museum’s Stephen F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va. The keynote address was...
