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  2. Keith Cowing - Wikipedia

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    Keith Cowing [1] is an American astrobiologist, former NASA employee, and the editor of the American space program blog NASA Watch. He is a credentialed NASA journalist and is known to be a critic of NASA activities and policies. [1] [2]

  3. SPHEREx - Wikipedia

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    SPHEREx will use a spectrophotometer to perform an all-sky survey that will measure near-infrared spectra from 0.75 to 5.0 micrometers. It will employ a single instrument with a single observing mode and no moving parts to map the entire sky (in 96 different color bands, far exceeding the color resolution of previous all-sky maps [4]) four times during its nominal 25-month mission; the crucial ...

  4. Deserts and xeric shrublands - Wikipedia

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    Deserts and xeric (Ancient Greek ξηρός xērós 'dry') shrublands form the largest terrestrial biome, covering 19% of Earth's land surface area. [2] Ecoregions in this habitat type vary greatly in the amount of annual rainfall they receive, usually less than 250 millimetres (10 in) annually except in the margins.

  5. Omega Speedmaster - Wikipedia

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    Omega cal. 321 movement. The Speedmaster was not originally designed for space exploration. Instead, it was introduced in 1957 as a sport and racing chronograph following on from the early chronographs of the 1920s and 1930s, including the Omega 28.9 chronograph, which was Omega's first small wrist chronograph, complementing Omega's position as the official timekeeper for the Olympic Games.

  6. Timex Datalink - Wikipedia

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    The watch had a small lens at the top of its face used for data transmission by visible light. [5] [21] Data was transmitted from the CRT of the computer through a series of pulsating horizontal bars, [22] [23] that were focused by the lens and written to the watch EEPROM memory through an optoelectronic transducer operating in the visible light spectrum and employing optical scanning technology.

  7. Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking - Wikipedia

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    Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) was a program run by NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, surveying the sky for near-Earth objects.NEAT was conducted from December 1995 until April 2007, at GEODSS on Hawaii (Haleakala-NEAT; 566), as well as at Palomar Observatory in California (Palomar-NEAT; 644).

  8. Miyota (watch movement manufacturer) - Wikipedia

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    Miyota produces various 'standard' and 'premium' grade mechanical movements for automatic wristwatches.. The Miyota 8215 is an entry level non-hacking-earlier versions twenty-one jewel three-hand with date automatic wristwatch movement with a uni-directional winding system (left rotation) with an accuracy of -20 to +40 seconds per day, and a power reserve of over 40 hours.

  9. XO (song) - Wikipedia

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    Keith Cowing of NASA Watch suggested that the use of the clip ranged from negligence to repugnance. [38] On December 30, 2013, NASA criticized the use of the sample, stating: "The Challenger accident is an important part of our history; a tragic reminder that space exploration is risky and should never be trivialized. NASA works every day to ...

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