Word: dunes
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...dune buggy-size Spirit and Opportunity are the third in NASA's family of Mars rovers, descendants of the 2-ft.-long Sojourner craft, which arrived on Mars in the summer of 1997. Like its bigger siblings, Sojourner came with only a very brief factory warranty - just 30 days in its case - and like its bigger siblings, easily exceeded it, operating for five months before finally surrendering to the Martian elements. It's rarely a good idea to take NASA's estimates of the lifespan of its ships too literally. The agency tends to lowball these calls, making it more...
...Dune system, with its precious wildlife, is too high a price to pay for the claimed economic benefits from this development," Aedan Smith of RSPB Scotland said...
...like Cribs, a peek inside the private lives of celebrities--tricky here since young people revere their stars and don't really want to look behind their curtains. But the producers green-lighted local versions of the extreme-sports and street-skills show Barrio 19--one early episode features "dune-bashing," driving ATVs fast through the desert--and the Candid Camera-style Boiling Points...
...much of my experience in it, that it would never be the same with a different collaboration.”Entire scenes, according to Anderson, would not exist without such collaboration.“Jason, Roman and I were on a location scout, and we found a high sand dune, and we climbed up the top of it. And as it happened there were these burrs under the sand,” he recalled. “By the time we were up there, our fingers were all bleeding and we could barely take a step, but then...
...Agents at Camp Desert Grip favor more eyes: cameras, sensors, ground radar, helicopters and dune buggies, so that word gets out that anyone who comes this way will be arrested. With current sensing equipment, fewer than half of the 11,000 entries detected so far this year were apprehended. More eyes would mean more arrests and at a reasonable cost, says Johnson. A camera tower costs about $600,000 and can see three miles in every direction...