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29 Jul WATCH: Have you ever wondered what it’s like living in Antarctica?
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With only eight people currently on Marion Island, social distancing is a natural feature of the year-long 77th Marion Island Expedition.
22 Jul What’s trending at SANSA?
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From collecting data in sub-zero Antarctica to rapid circuit prototyping on the International Space Station (ISS), South African modular “xChip” manufacturer XinaBox (pronounced "X-in-a-box") is reinventing the way in which the Internet of Things (IoT) is approached.
22 Jul Social distancing on Marion Island
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With only eight people currently on Marion Island, social distancing is a natural feature of the year-long 77th Marion Island Expedition.
22 Jul Cabinet greenlights NASA/SANSA study for deep-space ground station
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The South African government has given the go-ahead for SANSA and NASA to look into placing a space vehicle tracking and communications ground station in Matjiesfontein, Western Cape.
22 Jul Tracing trends in South Africa’s air quality
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COVID-19 lockdowns all over the world have revealed clearer city skies and a noticeable improvement in air quality. Such stark changes show just how much big, busy cities affect air quality, says SANSA researcher Lerato Shikwambana.
22 Jul SANSA keeping an eye on the South Atlantic Anomaly splitting in two
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SANSA's data on the South Atlantic Anomaly is in demand as the phenomenon’s area of influence rapidly expands, potentially threatening satellite communications and navigation in southern Africa.
22 Jul From consoles to dashboards: tracking satellite technology at SANSA
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From manual consoles to digital dashboards in the cloud, Joel Sekwakwa and Cornelius Mokgadi have seen it all over 20 years of capturing and processing data from satellites.
22 Jul SANSA satellite data boosts government’s response to COVID-19
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SANSA provides important satellite data and products to help the government respond to COVID-19, including data for contact tracing and mapping spaza shops affected by the lockdown.
19 Jun Digital Earth Africa releases analysis-ready satellite data for all of Africa that can support COVID-19 response and recovery
[caption id="attachment_6116" align="alignleft" width="264"] Sentinel-2 imagery of Bazaruto Archipelago, Mozambique[/caption] African nations can now access high-resolution satellite images in the Digital Earth Africa (DE Africa) platform that will enable countries to monitor changes that relate to people and the environment due