Thanks to ESO's Wide Field Imager camera, bolted onto a 2.2-m (7.2 ft) scope at La Silla, in the high desert of northern Chile, we don't have to guess anymore.

感谢ESO那台地处智利北部沙漠高点、装在拉西拉天文台2.2米口径望远镜上的宽幅成像相机吧，我们终于不用再胡乱猜测了。

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Using their new software, the team from ANU mapped the course of the rivers buried roughly 35 m under the Simpson Desert for the first time.

研究员说，用他们的新软件，来自澳洲国立大学的研究小组第一次绘制了辛普森沙漠35下米的河流的大致航线。

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China launched a carbon dioxide monitoing satellite via a Long March-2D rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gobi Desert at 3:22 a. m. Thursday.

本周四凌晨3：22，中国在酒泉卫星发射中心用一枚长征2号火箭将一颗二氧化碳监测卫星送入太空。

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Standing outside the Pentagon Monday in front of one of the hulking desert sand colored new vehicles designed to protect against those bombs, Assistant Secretary Carter extolled the M-ATV's virtues.

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"I have this idea for a project I'm doing in the desert, and it's going to show you how crazy I am, " he says, launching into a description of Lee Grant's house in the movie, specifically the "kind of amazing" Indian print and bamboo bedroom in which Warren Beatty, the house-call hairdresser, sleeps with Carrie Fisher, who plays Grant's teenage daughter.

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At 9:00 A.M. in the Iraqi desert, where the thermometer has already crossed the 100-degree mark, a white Chevrolet Tahoe barrels along at 70mph north to Basra.

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And we're joined, I'm delighted to say, by Major General Patrick Cordingley who commanded the Desert Rats in the first Gulf War.

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