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    The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), also known as the Curiosity rover, is a NASA mission with the goal of discovering details about past and present-day Mars. The primary purpose of the mission is to determine if Mars once had a suitable environment for microbial life. The area of Mars chosen to be studied is an ancient impact crater called the Gale Crater. It has many unique geologic features that piqued the interest of astronomers and geologists and could be indicative of past water flows and possibly

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    The Mars Exploration Rover Mission

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    two similar twin robotic rovers, which were Spirit and Opportunity toward Mars on 10 June and 7 July 2003 (NASA 2012). Spirit and Opportunity landed in Gusev Crater on 4 January 2004 and in Meridiani Planum on 25 January 2004 respectively (NASA 2012). Opportunity is still operating and roving after 10 years on the Martian surface while final communication of Spirit to the Earth took place on 22 March 2010, which is around six years into its mission (NASA 2012). The rovers were thought to last 20 times

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    two similar twin robotic rovers which were Spirit and Opportunity toward Mars on 10 June and 7 July 2003 (NASA 2012). Spirit and Opportunity landed in Gusev Crater on 4 January 2004 and in Meridiani Planum on 25 January 2004 respectively (NASA 2012). Opportunity is still operating and roving after 10 years on the Martian surface while final communication of Spirit to the Earth took place on 22 March 2010, which is around six years into its mission (NASA 2012). The rovers were thought to last 20 times

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    Spirit (MER-A) and opportunity (MER-B) are the names of two rovers which were part of Mars Exploration Rover Mission (MER). The purpose of spirit and opportunity rovers was to travel across the Martian surface in an attempt to gather information that would assist in determining if there was ever life in Mars through characterizing the geology and climate of mars, and set up for human exploration of mars. It was launched by NASA in June 2003 and landed on mars in January of 2004, originally designed

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    The Spirit of America: The Golden, Endless Future of Retirement The time is night, but the lights of this advertisement’s city illuminate the overwhelming darkness. The disproportionately large bottom of a modern looking building occupies a major part of the image. The busy street next to the building is packed, giving the appearance of jumbled mess of shadow and car lights. Between the street and the building, the sidewalk teems with a dark cluster of people walking. The clear and visible presence

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    Before Christmas break I went to an event at UNCG called the Spartan Showcase, and there were three particular programs that captured my attention; UNCG-in 3, Lloyd Honors College, and UNCG-Guarantee. The representatives at the Guarantee table were amiable and they seemed to stand apart from the rest of the programs in the room, and when I approached the table they took time to explain and describe the program to me. After the explanation, I was convinced that I would like to apply, in fact, I was

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    of human beings with the land has a strong connection. Centuries have gone by and throughout the many years, humans have relied on the land to provide for Humans, they need to evolve, survive, and move forward with their lives. The land provides for humans in a non costly manner. The land provides humans free shelter. For example, Humans use the dirt we walk on to build shelter. The Earth provides humans natural resources, such as water from lakes, streams and rain. The land gives humans bountiful

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    Natural resources are raw materials extracted from the earth. They are useful in many different ways for its diversified opportunity of benefit and profit for economic development. Examples of natural resources are mineral, oil, waterways, land, timber, diamonds, coals, coltan and genetic. Majority of developing countries, distributions of natural resources vary from one geographic location to another. The variability of location has caused greed and grievances in economic development. This

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    The business environment uses several different factors of production which are defined as the various useful resources that an economy utilizes to create goods and services for their customers. The ADM1113 textbook (2016) lists in chapter one, five factors of production which includes labour, capital, entrepreneurs, natural resources, and information. Firstly, labour is defined as the “mental and physical capabilities of people” (Ebert et al. p. 5). Labour work is an important factor of production

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    Balloons are a very enjoyable thing. But they might have a dark side. They are harmful to many of our earth’s environmental factors, such as, wildlife, natural resources, and toddlers could be very affected by them as well. This is why balloons should be banned. Balloons are a negative impact on wildlife. They effect a lot of sea creatures, because many sea animals mistake them for food. According to the text, “dead whales and sea turtles have been found with pieces of balloons in their stomachs

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