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Scott or Shackleton… who was the greatest British polar explorer of the Heroic Age? It's a matter of opinion, of course, but ...
When the Douglas Mawson sets sail this December, Aurora Expeditions' newest purpose-built small ship will honor the legacy ...
The sensation of cold and howling winds are evoked in the reader’s mind by many books on Polar exploration where a landscape of blue/grey ice and bright white snow are imagined. Sometimes the ...
Since the launch of the system on March 1, it has replaced traditional diesel power sources, providing uninterrupted ...
NANCY IF YOU REMEMBER, FROM FRAM TWO, AS THEY WERE ORBITING THE POLES, WHICH IS A FIRST FOR ANY ASTRONAUT WHO’S BEEN UP IN SPACE TO GO INTO THAT POLAR ORBIT. SO VERY EXCITED TO HEAR WHAT THESE ...
The mission, funded and commanded by a cryptocurrency entrepreneur, was launched by SpaceX on Monday and has grabbed ...
DARPA is seeking proposals for a small lunar orbiter that could be used to test operations in very low orbits while ...
Buying a technology investment trust is a great way to gain exposure to long-term growth trends, but be wary of Magnificent ...
The first astronauts to enter a polar orbit around Earth chose the obvious animal to serve as their zero-g indicator — a plush white *polar* bear. But given that the four-member Fram2 crew is ...
The four Fram2 crewmembers met each other on Svalbard — one of the northernmost places on Earth with a continuous human presence — and bring expertise in polar exploration or technologies that ...
The first astronaut crew to fly directly over Earth’s poles splashed down safely on Friday after nearly four days on orbit. “The ride to orbit was much smoother than I had anticipated,” Wang ...
Xuelong 2, one of the ships from China's 41st Antarctic expedition team, departs on a nearly seven-month mission to ...