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The Exploration of the Colorado River in 1869 and 1871 – 1872: Biographical Sketches and Original Documents of the First Powell Expedition of 1869 and the Second Powell Expedition of 1871 – 1872.
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Exploration and Colorado
In 1875, Powell published a book based on his explorations of the Colorado, originally titled Report of the Exploration of the Columbia River of the West and Its Tributaries.
In 1875, Powell published a classic account of the expedition ( combined with elements from later expeditions in 1871-72 ) called Report on the Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and Its Tributaries, re-issued and revised in 1895 as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons.
* The Exploration of the Colorado River, by John Wesley Powell, 1875, via Internet Archive ( scanned books original editions color illustrated )
Exploration and River
Exploration of Western Canada and Rupert's Land with a view to annexation and settlement was a priority of Canada West politicians in the 1850s leading to the Palliser Expedition and the Red River Exploring Expedition of Henry Youle Hind.
According to the China Exploration and Research Society, the source of the Yellow River is at 34 ° 29 ' 31. 1 " N, 96 ° 20 ' 24. 6 " E in the Bayan Har Mountains near the eastern edge of Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.
Exploration from the European explorers began with the Joliet-Marquette exploration along the Mississippi River.
This museum is a hub of the city's museums along the Arkansas River: the Mid-America All-Indian Center, Old Cowtown living history museum, Exploration Place science and discovery center, The Keeper of the Plains statue and its associated display highlighting the daily lives of plains Indians, and Botanica, The Wichita Gardens.
* Read Exploration of the Red River, by Randolph Marcy, 1852, hosted by the Portal to Texas History.
* UK Urban Exploration Forums, River Lea through Luton, photographs of the underground culvert in March 2009
In 1917-1918, Singstad worked at the Chile Exploration Company, and in 1918-1919, he worked with Barclay, Parsons, and Klapp ( now Parsons Brinckerhoff ), where he was in charge of designing a rapid-transit system for Philadelphia, and made preliminary designs for a vehicular tunnel under the Delaware River.
Exploration of the subterranean River Axe proceeded to the seventh chamber, a distance of, which was as far as the divers could physically handle their pipes and ropes.
* Chinese Sturgeon Aquarium – Yangtze River Exploration ( 中華鱘館-長江足跡 ) – Houses rare Chinese sturgeon along with other native species of the Yangtze River in an educational exhibit on this fragile ecosystem.
Turtle Bay Exploration Park is now restoring an additional 340 acres ( 140 hectares ) of riparian habitat located on both sides of the Sacramento River, removing invasive species and re-establishing native vegetation in woodland, grasslands, seasonal wetlands, and valley oak groves.
Exploration of the region intensified as news of the discoveries got out, and because of the distances and times involved in communications and travel in those times, moreover because of the remoteness of the country, the Cariboo Rush did not begin in earnest until 1862 after the discovery of Williams Creek in 1861 and the relocation of the focus of the rush to the creek valleys in the northern Cariboo Plateau forming the headwaters of the Willow River and the north slope of the basin of the Quesnel.
Exploration and 1869
One result of which was his Geological Report of the Exploration of the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers in 1859 – 1860 ( 1869 ).
He was engaged in 1869 to join the survey of Sinai, undertaken by the Palestine Exploration Fund, and followed up this work in the next year by exploring the desert of El-Tih in company with Charles Drake.
The journal of the PEF devoted to the study of the history, archaeology and geography of the Levant is Palestine Exploration Quarterly which has appeared since 1869.
Exploration and 1871
It was first formally described in the botanical literature as Yucca brevifolia by George Engelmann in 1871 as part of the Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel.
The results of this expedition appeared in the Desert of the Exodus ( 1871 ); in a report published in the journal of the Palestine Exploration Fund ( 1871 ); and in an article on the " Secret Sects of Syria " in the Quarterly Review ( 1873 ).
Exploration and –
* 1985 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
Among the Laboratory's current major active projects are the Mars Science Laboratory mission ( which includes the Curiosity rover ), the Cassini – Huygens mission orbiting Saturn, the Mars Exploration Rovers ( Spirit and Opportunity ), the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the Dawn mission to the dwarf planet Ceres and asteroid Vesta, the Juno spacecraft en route to Jupiter, the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory ( GRAIL ) mission to the Moon, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array ( NuSTAR ) X-ray telescope, and the Spitzer Space Telescope.
JPL has been recognized four times by the Space Foundation: with the Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award, which is given annually to an individual or organization that has made significant contributions to public awareness of space programs, in 1998 ; and with the John L. " Jack " Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration on three occasions – in 2009 ( as part of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Team ), 2006 and 2005.
* 2010 – JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, launches the solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS aboard an H-IIA rocket.
* 1995 – Space Exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.
* Avi-Yonah, Michael ; et al., Israel Exploration Journal 7, 1957, 1 – 160 ( excavation report Masada )
* 2007 – Chang ' e 1, the first satellite in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, is launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center.
* Wolffe, John, ' Olney Hymns ', in Religion, Exploration and Slavery, ( Milton Keynes: The Open University, 2004 ), pp. 15 – 52
* Sir Ernest Shackleton ( 1874 – 1922 ), Antarctic explorer during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
Translated as The North-West Passage: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the ship " Gjøa " 1903 – 1907, 1908.
In 1903, high school mathematics teacher Konstantin Tsiolkovsky ( 1857 – 1935 ), published Исследование мировых пространств реактивными приборами ( The Exploration of Cosmic Space by Means of Reaction Devices ), the first serious scientific work on space travel.
The NASA / MSFC Human Outer Planets Exploration ( HOPE ) group has investigated a manned MTF propulsion spacecraft capable of delivering a 163 933-kilogram payload to Jupiter's moon Callisto using 106-165 metric tons of propellant ( hydrogen plus either D-T or D-He3 fusion fuel ) in 249 – 330 days.
* 2005 – The Mars Exploration Rovers perform the first astronomical observations ever taken from the surface of another planet, imaging an eclipse by Mars's moon Phobos.
Newer probes such as Cassini – Huygens and the Mars Exploration Rovers are highly autonomous and use on-board computers to operate independently for extended periods of time.
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, CVO, OBE, FRGS ( 15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922 ) was an Anglo-Irish polar explorer, one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
* Andrew Stewart, Greek Sculpture: An Exploration, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 1990 ( ISBN 0-300-04072-5 ) pp. 277 – 281.
* Mars Exploration Rovers – 10 June / 7 July 2003 – Two Mars rovers (" Spirit " and " Opportunity ")
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