Curiosity's Chemical and Camera instrument, or ChemCam, fires a laser pulses that last just five one-billionths of a second but deliver more than a million watts of power, enough to turn solid rock into an ionized plasma. A trio of spectrometers in the tool then studies the sparks from the laser fire on 6,144 different wavelengths of ultraviolet, visible and infrared light to determine the composition of the vaporized rock.
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<br />http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0820/Curiosity-rover-begins-vaporizing-Mars-one-rock-at-a-time
Monday, August 20, 2012
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
NASA 'itching to move' on Mars as it charts course for Curiosity - Fox News
Its ultimate goal is to scale the lower slopes of Mount Sharp in search of the chemical building blocks of life to determine whether the environment was favorable for microbial life.",
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NASA 'itching to move' on Mars as it charts course for Curiosity
The team identified half a dozen potential paths through buttes and mesas that are reminiscent of the southwestern United States. Vasavada estimated it'll take a year to make the trip to the mountain driving about the length of a football field a day. Along the way, the six-wheel rover will make pit stops to study interesting rocks and scoop up soil.<br />http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/08/14/nasa-itching-to-move-on-mars-as-it-charts-course-for-curiosity/
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NASA 'itching to move' on Mars as it charts course for Curiosity
The team identified half a dozen potential paths through buttes and mesas that are reminiscent of the southwestern United States. Vasavada estimated it'll take a year to make the trip to the mountain driving about the length of a football field a day. Along the way, the six-wheel rover will make pit stops to study interesting rocks and scoop up soil.<br />http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/08/14/nasa-itching-to-move-on-mars-as-it-charts-course-for-curiosity/
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Huge volcanic rock 'ice-shelf' spotted in Pacific - The Hindu
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I'm fairly new to geology, and so I wonder if the floating material is still referred to as "pillows" of basalt usually evidenced in under water volcanic activities?<br />http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/article3757605.ece?homepage%3Dtrue
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I'm fairly new to geology, and so I wonder if the floating material is still referred to as "pillows" of basalt usually evidenced in under water volcanic activities?<br />http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/article3757605.ece?homepage%3Dtrue
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Flat-Faced Early Humans Confirmed—Lived Among Other Human Species - National Geographic
Not an aberrant specimen, the study makes clear, but a different species from the early Homo varieties previously known to have inhabited Turkana: Homo habilis ("handy man"), the presumed tool user conventionally seen as the earliest known Homo species, and Homo erectus, the "upright man" believed to be a direct ancestor of our own species (time line of human evolution).Consisting of a face, a complete lower jaw, and part of a second jaw, the new fossils were found east of Kenya's Lake Turkana between 2007 and 2009. The products of a 40-year search, they provide the needed evidence to confirm that a disputed skull found in 1972 does in fact represent a new species, the team says.<br />http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/08/120808-human-evolution-fossils-homo-nature-science-meave-leakey-flat/
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
University Structure
The current island-structure of universities is a way of wasting invaluable potentials. The existence of various disciplines in university is a golden opportunity, but people usually ignore it.
Monday, August 6, 2012
Mars rover Curiosity lands on the Red Planet - USA TODAY
Posted document.write(niceDate("8/6/2012 12:26 AM")); | Updated document.write(niceDate("8/6/2012 7:06 AM"));NASA's Curiosity rover transmitted this image to Earth after landing successfully on Mars yesterday evening.<br />http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/story/2012-08-06/mars-rover-curiosity-landing/56814732/1
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