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The sprite hunters of the Karoo desert
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Four researchers huddle against the cold winds and encroaching darkness of
the Karoo night, working with sophisticated cameras and near-real-time
data feeds. The cameras are trained upwards and to the north, where a
distant thunderstorm pummels the Highveld in silent fury. These intrepid
researchers are hunting sprites.
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Analogue in Antarctica: from whence we
came
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"When I first arrived we had to use morse
code to send messages and were allowed a
single nine-minute phone call a month."
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| How an adventurous engineer ended
up at the bottom of the world |
Danielle Taljaard found herself in
one of the most inhospitable
places on Earth, at the bottom
of the world in Antarctica.
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| New Data Portal to make use of rich SANSA data |
The South African National Space Agency (SANSA)
is soon to launch the South African National
Geophysical Data and Instrumentation Management
System (SANDIMS) data portal that will be
available to researchers, students and the
private sector.
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| SANSA helps SAPS search for hidden
weapons
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Finding a needle in a haystack is
exactly the unique expertise
of SANSA’s Applied Science and
Technology Unit in the Western
Cape, whether they’re searching
for illegal arms caches in the
sand dunes of Sandbaai, or the
first signs of settlements on
Robben Island.
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What's Hot in space science?
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Latest space science research from around the world.
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Bite-sized research and news from SANSA in Hermanus.
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What’s happening in space science in South Africa
and around the world?
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