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Richat Structure. / 21.114700°N 11.394300°W / 21.114700; -11.394300. The Richat Structure, or Guelb er Richât ( Arabic: قلب الريشات Qalb ar-Rīšāt ), is a prominent circular geological feature in the Adrar Plateau of the Sahara. It is located near Ouadane in the Adrar Region of Mauritania.
The history of space in Africa is the history of space activity by or sent from Africa . Africa has had since 1947 launch sites, with the first independent space programs having been set up early into the Space Age, and African countries participating within the United Nations in developing international space law.
The first images from space were taken on the sub-orbital V-2 rocket flight launched by the US on October 24, 1946. Satellite image of Fortaleza.. Satellite images (also Earth observation imagery, spaceborne photography, or simply satellite photo) are images of Earth collected by imaging satellites operated by governments and businesses around the world.
The Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory ( HartRAO) is a radio astronomy observatory, located in a natural bowl of hills at Hartebeesthoek just south of the Magaliesberg mountain range, and about 50 km west of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. It is a National Research Facility run by South Africa's National Research Foundation.
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Diagram of a rift valley's future evolution into a sea Satellite image of a graben in the Afar Depression. Today these rifts and faults are seen as distinct, although connected, but originally, the Great Rift Valley was thought to be a single feature that extended from Lebanon in the north to Mozambique in the south, where it constitutes one of two distinct physiographic provinces of the East ...
The National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) is the national space agency of Nigeria. It is a parastatal under Federal Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology. The agency is based in the Nigerian capital city of Abuja in the Lugbe district and has a ground receiving station, among various other sites.
SumbandilaSat. SumbandilaSat (sometimes just Sumbandila, formerly ZASAT-002, AMSAT designation SO-67 [3] [4] ), was a South African micro Earth observation satellite, launched on 17 September 2009 on a Soyuz-2 launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. [5] The first part of the name, Sumbandila, is from the Venda language and means "lead the ...