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In 1962, NASA’s Mariner 1 Venus probe was destroyed just 294 seconds after launch when an Atlas guidance antenna fault exposed a missing overbar in the rocket’s ground-guidance program
How does a city-state of 6.1 million people with almost no natural freshwater meet up to 40 percent of its water demand with water that once went down the drain?
A single lightning flash recorded over the southern US in April 2020 stretched 768 kilometres across three states in a matter of seconds, a horizontal bolt long enough to reach from Boston to Washington DC, and satellite instruments only exist to measure it because ground observers cannot see that far
How did a country whose forests held just 6 cubic metres of standing wood per hectare after colonial logging and war rebuild them to more than 160 within a single lifetime?
