GPS is going places: Here are five things you didn’t know the navigation system could do

Matt Siegfried, now at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, and his colleagues studied snow accumulation at 23 GPS stations in West Antarctica from 2007 to 2017.
October 29, 2019

Caterpillar’s autonomous vehicles may be used by NASA to mine the moon and build a lunar base

Yet the notion of extracting platinum, gold and other valuable minerals from heavenly bodies and propelling them back to Earth is more fiction than science. “The economic analysis doesn’t make sense,” said Angel Abbud-Madrid, director of the Center ....
October 23, 2019