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50 Years Later, This Apollo-Era Antenna Still Talks to Voyager 2

Cars That Think

Capturing every bit of the incident signals is crucial to gathering useful information from the transmissions. When the space agency sent Curiosity , a golf cart–size rover, to explore the Gale crater and Mount Sharp on Mars in 2011, DSS-43 tracked Curiosity as it made its nail-biting seven-minute descent into Mars’s atmosphere.

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An Easy EV Conversion Kit For People

Open Source Civic EV Kit

While people can purchase neighborhood electric vehicles today for about $10K, they only have a top speed of 35 miles an hour or so, essentially glorified golf-carts. The Saturn came up a distant second, but everyone agreed that the Civic was the best. I really appreciate Bob's willingness to share his wealth of information.

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