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The three CubeSats from the MDASat constellation sit in a clean room at Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa.
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Satellites Help Cement South Africa’s Space Industry

by Munyaradzi Makoni 16 March 202216 March 2022

A trio of CubeSats allows South Africa to showcase its growing space industry as well as monitor its coastal zones.

Image of the center of our galaxy
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With MeerKAT, Astronomers Peer at the Possibilities of Radio Imaging

by Santiago Flórez 11 March 202224 May 2022

Stunning images of the center of the Milky Way showcase technology and techniques that may be a starting point for more discoveries.

Satellite image of Earth’s Eastern Hemisphere.
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An Indian Ocean Network to Keep Track of Climate

by Rishika Pardikar 2 February 20226 June 2022

Until this decade, the Indian Ocean was not well monitored. Today, the Indian Ocean Observing System helps with both weather monitoring and climate modeling.

A satellite view of the Vredefort impact structure in South Africa
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A Giant Impact Triggered Earthquakes for Thousands of Years

by Katherine Kornei 2 February 202214 February 2022

When an asteroid struck South Africa during the Precambrian, earthquakes rocked the region for millennia as Earth’s crust reequilibrated, new research reveals.

Bull’s-eye features in rock
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Ejecta Discovered Near Site of Ancient Meteorite Impact

by Katherine Kornei 17 August 20218 April 2022

South Africa’s Vredefort impact structure is the largest on the planet, and researchers have now discovered the first proximal ejecta possibly deriving from the cataclysmic impact.

Image of a volcanic lake at Ijen volcano in Indonesia
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Ancient, Acidic Lakes May Have Harbored Life

by R. Kemeny 30 March 202125 March 2022

A new analysis of South African sediments hints that acidic lakes may have leached minerals necessary for biotic life.

An artist’s depiction of early modern humans living amid the grasslands of the Paleo-Agulhas Plain
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A Lost Haven for Early Modern Humans

by K. Braun 14 October 202015 April 2022

Sea level changes have repeatedly reshaped the Paleo-Agulhas Plain, a now submerged region off the coast of South Africa that once teemed with plants, animals, and human hunter–gatherers.

A view along the Atlantic coastline of South Africa showing hillslopes descending to the beach and ocean
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Ancient Sea Levels in South Africa May Offer Modern Analogues

by Aaron Sidder 14 July 20206 December 2021

Largely spared from disruptive tectonic activity, the South African coastline offers a natural setting to study sea levels from when Earth’s atmospheric carbon dioxide last reached today’s levels.

An SV3 surface wave glider being tested off Cape Town, South Africa, prior to its deployment during the GINA project
Posted inScience Updates

Ocean Gliders Ride the Research Wave in the Agulhas Current

by M. Krug, S. Swart and J. Hermes 12 June 201811 January 2022

Off the east coast of South Africa, robotic ocean gliders deployed in the Agulhas Current capture new data that help us better understand how energy dissipates in the ocean.

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