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• The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report

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• CSTAR Telescope Array in China arrived in the highest point of the Antarctic Dome A Inland

  Following the January 18, 2005 for the first time for China to achieve the human from the ground to reach the Antarctic ice sheet after the peak of Dome A, the 24th Chinese Antarctic icecap expedition team expedition on January 12, 2008 once again get called ” not close to the very human, “the highest [...]