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Landsat Proved the Power of Remote Sensing

Cars That Think

The second instrument was a highly experimental Multispectral Scanner System (MSS) designed by Virginia T. The MSS, though, operated until 6 January 1978, outliving its design life by four and a half years and recording more than 300,000 images. Everyone assumed the camera would be the workhorse of the mission.

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Heard At The Show: Snippets from SAE 2009 World Congress

Green Car Congress

In this country a lot of the new cars are purchased by higher income households and a typical modest income household is driving a used car.The typical American that is buying a new car, which costs on average $28,000, isn’t currently driving a car that costs $2,000. kg) of aluminum used. More detail can be found at autoaluminum.org.

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My Cycling trip from Agra to Bikaner

Plug In India

Plus I had purchased bananas, oranges and musk melon outside the railway station. Possibly this design was because of the bonding material used during those times. The bedroom floor was designed to have a constant circulation of rosewater. Our Rajdhani tickets, for some strange reason, did not include meals.

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Budget Drones in Ukraine Are Redefining Warfare

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Over time, as weapons system provokes countermeasures, their designers respond with improvements, and the gold-plating accumulates. In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft,” wrote Norman Augustine, formerly Undersecretary of the Army, back in 1984.

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