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NASA - A New Class of Planetary Systems - 0 views

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scibyte29 Kepler twin star

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NASA - Multimedia - Video Gallery - 0 views

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scibyte48 iss dragon PrivateSpaceTravel

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  • Station Crew Opens Dragon's Hatch
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NASA - Multimedia - Video Gallery - 0 views

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  • NASA astronaut Dan Burbank delivers a special Thanksgiving message from the International Space Station
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NASA - Wind and Radiation on Mars - 0 views

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scibyte72 Curiosity

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  • pictures haven't turned up any dust devils.
  • With Thanksgiving coming up we've been preparing a few days worth of commands to send up to the rover to keep it busy while people here take some much needed time off
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NASA - Curiosity Roves Again - 0 views

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scibyte73 Curiosity

shared by Mars Base on 01 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • After several weeks of being stationary at the Rocknest site we began driving again on Sol 100
  • stone on the mission as we reached about a half a kilometer of total driving distance on the surface of Mars
  • going to be moving to the East to a place called Point Lake
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  • looking for a target to perform our first ever drill on Mars
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NASA - Rover Results at Rocknest - 0 views

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scibyte74 Curiosity

shared by Mars Base on 10 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • wrapped up our scientific study of Rocknest, which also means that we’ve completed the checkout and first scientific use of all our instruments on the rover and it truly is working great.
  • used out ChemCam laser and our APXS chemical sensor to do an initial technical analysis of the soil
  • using our Mastcam color cameras
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  • MAHLI, our hand lens imager to take close up views of the soil to look at different particle sizes, shapes and colors and how they change with depth
  • analyzed it if our X-ray diffraction instrument that can identify minerals in the soil based on their unique crystal structure
  • a good amount of the material in the soil was not crystalline but that’s not a problem for our other laboratory, SAM.
  • results show a composition that is typical of Mars soils studied at other sites with perhaps some very simple carbon containing molecules and perchlorate salts.
  • haven’t yet seen any complex organic molecules but sand isn’t the best place to look
  • There won’t be any single image or measurement that’ll answer everything.
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NASA - Curiosity Rover Gives Mars the Brush-Off - 0 views

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  • the team downloaded as much data as possible from Curiosity to free up the onboard data storage space to give her a fresh start to the New Year.
  • started off with a small 3-meter drive to an interesting feature called Snake River.
  • Over time, dust accumulated on all the rocks and it hides features, such as fissures, inclusions or pits that are of interest.
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  • The tool has a set of spinning metallic brushes and this allows for the features to be exposed for unobstructed APXS or ChemCam observations
  • he team selected a rock for the first time use of the dust removal tool.
  • the team is searching for a suitable rock to test out the rotary-percussive drill.
  • it will be the first time that we will be drilling into a rock, acquire sample from deep within the rock, and also sort and transport it to the science instruments on board Curiosit
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NASA - Curiosity Finds Calcium-Rich Deposits - 0 views

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scibyte78 Curiosity

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  • images being returned by Curiosity show a diverse collection of interesting features, including sedimentary rocks, pebbles, cracks, nodules, and veins
  • vein features are seen as a bright white material
  • contain elevated levels of calcium sulfate, likely in the form of bassanite or gypsum
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  • Gypsum veins are also seen here on Earth and associated with water percolating through cracks and fractured rocks.
  • The team hopes to drill directly into one of the veins and place the powder into the SAM and ChemMin analytical instruments
  • give us detailed information about the composition of the material
  • On our way over to the drill site, we’re planning on using the rover’s wheels to crush some of these nearby veins and examine the freshly broken material
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Mars Science Laboratory: Images - 0 views

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scibyte86 Curiosity

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  • This mosaic of images from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows Mount Sharp in raw color as recorded by the camera.
  • Raw color shows the scene's colors as they would look in a typical smart-phone camera photo, before any adjustment.
  • This mosaic was assembled from dozens of images from the 100-millimeter-focal-length telephoto lens camera mounted on the right side of the Mastcam instrument
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scibyte86 Curiosity

shared by Mars Base on 17 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • This week the Curiosity science team released its initial findings from its first ever drilled sample on Mars
  • Curiosity obtained her first drill sample and passed that sample on to her onboard analytical lab instruments, called CheMin and SAM
  • These powerful instruments tell us about what minerals are present in these rocks and whether they contain the ingredients necessary to sustain life as we know it.
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  • When we combine what we have learned from our remote sensing and contact science instruments with the data that's coming in from CheMin and SAM, we get a picture of an ancient watery environment, which would have been habitable had life been present in it.
  • the information that we're getting from the CheMin instrument, tells us that the minerals that are present in this lakebed sedimentary rock at John Klein are very different from just about anything we've ever analyzed before on Mars
  • they tell us that the John Klein rock was deposited in a fresh water environment
  • This is an important contrast with other sedimentary environments that we've visited on Mars, like the Meridiani Planum landing site where the Mars Exploration Rover, Opportunity, has been operating since 2004.
  • At that site, the sedimentary rocks record evidence of an environment that was only wet on a very intermittent basis, and when it was, the waters that were there were highly acidic, very salty, and not favorable for the survival of organic compounds.
  • direct contrast to the fresh water environment we're seeing here at the John Klein Site
  • The SAM instrument is telling us that these rocks contained all of the ingredients necessary for a habitable environment
  • We found carbon, sulfur and oxygen, all present and a number of other elements in states that life could have taken advantage of.
  • these few tablespoons of powder from a Martian rock have provided the Curiosity science team with an exciting new dataset
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Mars Science Laboratory: Images - 0 views

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scibyte86 Curiosity

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  • white-balanced color adjustment that makes the sky look overly blue but shows the terrain as if under Earth-like lighting
  • White-balancing helps scientists recognize rock materials based on their experience looking at rocks on Earth
  • White balancing yields an overly blue hue in images that have very little blue information, such as Martian landscapes, because the white balancing tends to overcompensate for the low inherent blue content.
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Mars Science Laboratory: Images - 0 views

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scibyte87 Curiosity

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  • left image is the raw, unprocessed color, as it is received directly from Mars
  • center rendering was produced after calibration of the image to show an estimate of "natural" color, or approximately what the colors would look like if we were to view the scene ourselves on Mars
  • right image shows the result of then applying a processing method called white-balancing, which shows an estimate of the colors of the terrain as if illuminated under Earth-like, rather than Martian, lighting
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Mars Science Laboratory: Images - 0 views

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scibyte94 Curiosity

shared by Mars Base on 21 May 13 - No Cached
  • This pair of images from the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows the rock target "Cumberland" before and after Curiosity drilled into it to collect a sample for analysis
  • The "before" image was taken during the 275th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity's work on Mars (May 15, 2013).
  • Curiosity drilled into Cumberland on Sol 279 (May 19, 2013) and took the second image later that same sol.
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Mars Science Laboratory: Images - 0 views

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scibyte91 Curiosity

shared by Mars Base on 21 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • NASA's Curiosity Mars rover targeted the laser of the Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument with remarkable accuracy for assessing the composition of the wall of a drilled hole and tailings that resulted from the drilling
  • ChemCam fired its laser 150 times (5 bursts of 30 shots, each burst at a different target point) on the drill tailings between the two holes and 300 times (10 bursts of 30 shots) in the drill hole itself
  • The same day, ChemCam's remote micro-imager (RMI) captured images of the laser pits: small craters in the loose tailing
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  • and tiny scrapes on the hard surface of the hole walls
  • Mars Base on 21 Apr 13
     
    Accurate pointing by Curiosity
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