The next Mars rover hasn’t quite left planet Earth; it’s being tested in Greenland first. From 3 May to 8 June, it will rove over the desolate landscapes before being packed off into outer space.
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Mars rover lands on Greenland
Posted on 14 May 2013.
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Pirates headed for safe web ‘bay’ in Greenland
Posted on 12 April 2013.
The notorious file sharing site The Pirate Bay tried changing its virtual domain to Greenland in a bid to thwart efforts to close it down. The overnight switch to a .gl domain name was necessary after it became apparent its .se domain might soon be seized by Swedish officials.
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Greenland’s new government puts the brakes on more offshore drilling
Posted on 05 April 2013.
The incoming government lead by Aleqa Hammond in Greenland will put the brakes on further offshore drilling for oil. Licences for 11 new blocks in Northeast Greenland, said to contain more than 30 billion barrels in reserves, will not be handed out after the new administration takes office on April 5th.
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NASA begins 2013 survey of Greenland’s ice sheets
Posted on 27 March 2013.
NASA has now started to collect this year’s research of the Earth’s polar ice sheets as part of their six-year survey.
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Greenland PM: Europe could miss out on mineral riches
Posted on 18 March 2013.
Greenland’s Prime Minister has warned that the EU could miss out on having access to the territory’s newly uncovered mineral wealth.
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Greenland core probe offers insight to ice melt phenomenon
Posted on 05 February 2013.
Researchers have released some fresh insight into the future of global warming, ice melt and rising sea levels. The clue comes via an international expedition conducted in Greenland over the last two winters, in which scientists drilled 2,500 metres below the surface of the ice to retrieve ice and snowpack dating back 130,000 years.
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WWII plane wreck discovered by Greenland search team
Posted on 28 January 2013.
A search squad from the US Coastguard has discovered the remnants of a plane that went down in Greenland during WWII. According to a report published by the New York Times, the team found the grounded US Grumman Duck aircraft near Koge Bay on the southeast coast of the North Atlantic territory, almost seven decades after [...]
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Greenland denies EU’s rare earth limits
Posted on 27 January 2013.
Greenland’s premier has said that the EU won’t be given preference over China as the country seeks to exploit its rare earths deposits. Prime Minister Kuupik Kleist told the media “All are welcome if they meet our conditions and our requirements to operate in Greenland,” the BBC reports.
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