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The Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the world’s largest radio telescope, is to move forward to its final pre-construction phase. The design of the €650-million first phase of the SKA (SKA1) is now defined, consisting of two complementary world class instruments one in Australia, one in South Africa, both expecting to deliver exciting and transformational science. Presently in its design phase, the international project, currently consisting of 11 nations, has been engaged over the last 20 months in a rigorous and extremely challenging, science-driven engineering process with teams from around the world working to refine the design of SKA1.
A 100 MW solar plant launched near the town of Pofadder in the Northern Cape Province will be capable of providing clean and sustainable power to approximately 80 000 homes in South Africa. The project is a partnership between Abengoa, the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), and the KaXu Community Trust and was last week inaugurated by Minister of Economic Development, Ebrahim Patel, accompanied by Deputy Minister of Public Enterprises, Bulelani Magwanishe, Premier of the Northern Cape, Silvia Lucas, executives of Abengoa and IDC and representatives of the local community.
A primitive ocean on Mars once held more water than Earth’s Arctic Ocean. This is according to NASA scientists, who used ground-based observatories to measure water signatures in the Red Planet’s atmosphere. Scientists have been searching for answers to why this vast water supply left the surface. Details of the observations and computations appear in Thursday’s edition of Science magazine.