Sitting in the middle of the Iranian plateau, the Dasht-e Kavir, or Great Salt Desert, is the planet’s 24th largest desert.
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The company, started by the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, reset its countdown clock repeatedly over a period of just over two ...
Scheduled to take off from the Kennedy Space Center in or after mid-January, the instrument will take the first full images of the magnetic field around Earth, which will help researchers reveal how ...