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scibte65 Curiosity

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  • reach a location for first use of the rover's capability to scoop up soil material and deliver a sample of it into laboratory instruments
  • Activities on Sol 52 included the usual monitoring of the environment around Curiosity with the Radiation Assessment Detector, the Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons instrument, and the Rover Environmental Monitoring
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Temperatures measured at Gale Crater higher than expected - 0 views

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scibte65 Curiosity

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  • Preliminary weather reports from the Curiosity's Remote Environment Monitoring Station (REMS) are showing some surprisingly mild temperatures during the day
  • Temperatures have risen above freezing during the day for more than half of the Martian Sols since REMS started recording data.
  • At night the air temperatures sink drastically, reaching a minimum of -70 degrees just before dawn
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  • seeing temperatures this warm already during the day is a surprise and very interesting
  • If this warm trend carries on into summer, we might even be able to foresee temperatures in the 20s
  • REMS pressure sensors have also been recording slightly higher pressures than expected
  • the first three weeks after landing to around 750 pascals – a tiny fraction of the average pressure at sea level on Earth.
  • pressure data show a very significant daily variation of pressure
  • The minimum is near 685 pascals and the maximum near 780 pascals. The majority of the variation is due to large scale waves in the atmosphere called tides
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Unusual Indian Ocean Earthquakes Hit at Tectonic Breakup: Scientific American - 0 views

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scibte65 TectonicPlate

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  • According to prevailing theories of plate tectonics, the Indo-Australian plate began to deform internally about 10 million years ago
  • thrusting the Himalayas up and slowing India down
  • Most scientists think that the Australian portion forged ahead, creating twisting tensions
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  • inferred the presence of these seismic stresses by modeling stress changes from shortly before the 2012 earthquakes
  • magnitude-9.1 tremor in 2004
  • and another quake in 2005 — probably triggered the 2012 event by adding to pent-up stresses in the plate’s middle region.
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