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The KAIRA radio telescope is located at Kilpisjärvi, right along the border with Norway. (Raimo Torikka / Yle)

Environment ENVIRONMENT Featured Finland

Finland inaugurates radio telescope in Arctic

Yle News
Posted: Monday, June 10, 2013 at 09:16
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The largest radio telescope in Finland was formally inaugurated this past week at Kilpisjärvi in Finnish Lapland. Known as KAIRA

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A prototype of GROVER, minus its solar panels, was tested in January 2012 at a ski resort in Idaho. The laptop in the picture is for testing purposes only and is not mounted on the final prototype. (Gabriel Trisca, Boise State University, NASA)

Denmark/Greenland ENVIRONMENT Environment Featured

NASA rover roaming Greenland’s ice sheet

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at 11:58
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A NASA rover known as GROVER is roaming Greenland to collect data that may help scientists better understand changes to

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