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How Robots Will Do the Heavy Lifting in the Sahara and Antarctica | Popular Science

How Robots Will Do the Heavy Lifting in the Sahara and Antarctica | Popular Science | Science News | Scoop.it
From www.popsci.com - January 18, 2012 5:44 PM

The Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing, Engineering and Automation in Stuttgart, Germany, is developing a robot to construct a 2,270-square-mile solar farm in the Sahara. The 100-ton Industrial Parallel Kinematics device (IPAnema) is similar to the Skycam that hovers above the field at NFL games: 2,000 feet of polyethylene cable strung between four mobile towers suspend the end effector, a box with jaws built for grasping solar reflectors. IPAnema will be ready for work in 2015.

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Time-lapse Tuesday: Milky Way shines through sandstorm

Time-lapse Tuesday: Milky Way shines through sandstorm | Science News | Scoop.it
From www.newscientist.com - September 20, 2011 4:58 AM

What would the Milky Way look like during a sandstorm? Last month, photographer Terje Sorgjerd captured this scenario while on El Teide in the Canary Islands (see video above). His goal was to photograph the Milky Way galaxy from Spain's highest mountain, one of the best places in the world to see the stars. But in the middle of the night, he encountered a sandstorm that had made its way from the Sahara desert.

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Satellite Photos Show Ancient Saharan Fortresses of a Lost Empire | 80beats | Discover Magazine

Satellite Photos Show Ancient Saharan Fortresses of a Lost Empire | 80beats | Discover Magazine | Science News | Scoop.it
From blogs.discovermagazine.com - November 17, 2011 5:33 PM

New satellite images have revealed more than a hundred ancient fortified settlements still standing in the Sahara. The settlements, located in what today is southern Libya, were built by the Garamantes, a people who ruled much of the area for nearly a thousand years until their empire fragmented around 700 AD. Information about the Garamantes is relatively scarce: Other than the accounts of classical historians (who aren’t known for careful accuracy) and excavations of the Garamantian capital city in the 1960s, archaeologists haven’t had a lot to go on.

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Andrew and Tom's curator insight, April 10, 2014 11:36 AM

Area/geography-an ancient Saharan fortress has been discovered
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