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OPPORTUNITY ROVER POISED ON RIM OF 'SPECTACULAR' CRATER
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NASA unveiled a dramatic image from the Opportunity Mars rover Thursday, a
color panorama looking into a 30-foot-deep, football field-wide crater
showing cliffs of exposed bedrock that may help unlock the geologic
history of the region. (Includes video!)
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It tracked some of the most memorable tropical cyclones on record-from the
famous parade of storms in 1995, when five tropical cyclones were active
in the Atlantic at the same time-including the deadly Hurricane Mitch,
which devastated parts of Central America in 1998. On Wednesday, NOAA
officially deactivated the eighth satellite in the Geostationary
Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) series.
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Lockheed Martin announced this week that it has successfully completed
on-schedule the critical design review phase of the Advanced Extremely
High Frequency (AEHF) program and is beginning production of the
next-generation military communications satellite system.
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