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Solar Impulse 2 becomes the first solar-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the Earth.

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Solar Impulse

Long-range solar-powered aircraft

Solar Impulse is a Swiss long-range experimental solar-powered aircraft project, and also the name of the project's two operational aircraft. The privately financed project is led by Swiss engineer and businessman André Borschberg and Swiss psychiatrist and balloonist Bertrand…
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Earth

Third planet from the Sun

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. This is enabled by Earth being an ocean world, the only one in the Solar System sustaining liquid surface water. Almost all of Earth's water is contained in its global ocean, covering…
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