The footage was filmed by a member of a neighbouring tribal group campaigning to protect the region’s isolated indigenous people.
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READ MOREForty years ago, a Voyager spacecraft snapped the first closeup images of Europa, one of Jupiter’s 79 moons. These revealed brownish cracks slicing the moon’s icy surface, which give Europa the look of a veiny eyeball. Missions to the outer solar system in the decades since have amassed enough additional information about Europa to make it a high-priority target of investigation in NASA’s search for life.
READ MOREA University of Sussex student created a new material that is strong and flexible and decomposes in less than six weeks.
READ MOREIt’s hardly the stuff of little green men, but a mysterious balloon-like object seen floating across the skies of northern Japan has captured national attention, even prompting questions to the government.
READ MOREEngineers in Romania have invented a genuine disc-shaped flying machine that can move in any direction.
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