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Members of the Mars Rover Design Team from the Missouri University of Science and Technology retrieve their stricken rover.
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Members of the Mars Rover Design Team from the Missouri University of Science and Technology, from left, Ian Lee, Josh Jetter and Kumar Singampalle monitor their rover from a communications tent.
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Members of Cornell University rover team carry their entry to the start of a task during the competition.
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A night view of the the Aurora Borealis near the Mars Desert Research Station where the 7th Annual University Rover Challenge took place.
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1 | Blend Approximately 75 refrigerated truckloads of ground beef, pork, and turkey arrive weekly at Oscar Mayer's two hot dog plants. For the classic frank, the meats are blended with a secret spice...
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2 | Scan To make sure the meat will taste as good as last time, quality-control scientists scan a sample of the mixture with near-infrared light. How the waves pass through the samples gives a read on...
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3 | Stuff Calibrated quantities of the meat-and-spice mash are pumped into sausage-shaped temporary casings in a process known as "stuffing." The cellulose casing is striped to help workers...
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4 | Smoke Before you grill your dogs, they get a first dose of smoke at the plant. Oscar Mayer slowly burns hickory wood down to ash. Drawing air away from the ash ensures it keeps smoldering without...
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5 | Cook The hot dogs are then blasted with hot air moving at 10 miles per hour to cook them through. The temperature and duration is monitored so that it delivers the perfect-textured link every time....
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6 | Package Before the wieners are packaged, a machine slices open the temp casings and a vacuum sucks them off. The hot dogs are then checked for casing stripes before they're packaged and shipped....
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Martian North Pole The north polar ice cap of Mars, presented as a mosaic of 57 separate images from the High Resolution Stereo Camera on ESA’s Mars Express. The ice cap spans approximately 1000 km and...
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