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YAXUNAH, Yucatán — The laughter coming from a humble home echoed in one of the empty streets of Yaxunah, a small town of about 800 in the state of Yucatán, 25 kilometers southeast of one of Mexico’s ...
The Amazonas Nexus satellite was successfully orbited today by a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Amazonas Nexus belongs to Spanish ...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched Hispasat’s Amazonas Nexus telecom satellite Feb. 6 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Credit: SpaceX TAMPA, Fla. — SpaceX successfully launched the ...
The Brazilian state of Amazonas declared a state of emergency over the rising number of forest fires in the area. The Brazilian state of Amazonas has declared a state of emergency over a rising number ...
A few miles behind Tamatama, our boat comes to the point where the Orinoco lets off about one third of its water into the Casiquiare channel. Here we leave the Orinoco, and enter the Casiquiare, a ...
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