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Rocket Trails at Twilight Illuminate the Sky

As if rocket launches weren’t spectacular enough, sometimes viewers are treated to a special light show when rocket trails are illuminated by high altitude sunlight. Called twilight phenomena, while these giant colourful doodles in the sky leave us wondering what their message may be, they've already disappeared.

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The Indestructibe Hard Drive: Survives 1200 Degrees C & Mach 25

Image from D’Amico Rodrigo In maybe the most impressive data-recovery task of all time, Jon Edwards has extracted the contents of a hard drive that was on-board the doomed Space Shuttle Columbia in 2003, meaning that it survived the disintegration of the shuttle while it was 39 miles [...]

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