remote sensing
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Not a Scene From Star Wars: This Is a Real Satellite Falling to Earth
Many Star Wars fans probably thought they were dreaming when the European Space Agency published images of what looked like a TIE starfighter in space. Alas, it wasn’t the Empire, but rather glimpses of a decades-old Earth observation satellite making its return home. The recent images of the satellite, known as the second European Remote…
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Parts Of That ‘Lost Maya City’ Might Actually Be A Marijuana Grow-Op
In a story that keeps on getting weirder, a scientist familiar with the Mexican region where a Canadian teen claims to have discovered a lost Maya settlement says at least one of these features is either an abandoned cornfield — or a marijuana operation.
