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GPS and water don’t mix. So scientists have found a new way to navigate under the sea – ZDNet
MIT’s researchers have found a way to surmount GPS’s biggest challenge: water.
Nearly half a century ago, the US Department of Defense started working on a project to pinpoint locations on the surface of the planet thanks to satellites. What is now known as GPS has since come a long way, permeating every aspect of our everyday lives, from helping city-dwellers find their way through unknown streets all the way to assisting the delivery of emergency services.
And yet even today’s most sophisticated GPS systems are still unable to map a huge chunk of the Earth: that which is…
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