O/OREOS Stories
Surveying Popes Creek
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George Washington was born along this tidal creek in Virginia and, as a teenager, made one of his first surveying maps of the surrounding lands.
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Find the Twins: Gemini Constellation
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The night skies of February are filled with beautiful star patterns, and so this month we take a closer look at another famous constellation, now rising high in the east after sunset: Gemini, the Twins! If you’re observing Orion, then…
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Sunlight Extracts Oxygen From Regolith Using Solar Chemistry
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NASA’s Carbothermal Reduction Demonstration (CaRD) project completed an important step toward using local resources to support human exploration on the Moon. The CaRD team performed integrated prototype testing that used concentrated solar energy to extract oxygen from simulated lunar soil, while confirming the production of carbon monoxide through a…
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