NASA's Doug Ellison brought our attention to the picture when he shared it to Twitter on Saturday . "One of the nicest images I have had the fortune of being asked to take," he wrote.
Gale Crater at dawn. One of the nicest images I have had the fortune of being asked to take. https://t.co/EzhBkRquQV pic.twitter.com/BeXoGcfLLh
Ellison describes himself on Twitter as a "Mars photographer." "I work with the science team and the rover drivers to make sure I'm pointing the cameras the right way," he said in a NASA profile about his work on the Curiosity team.
Not to change the topic here:
Postdoc Position: Evolution and Present-day State of Mars' Subsurface Environment | Planetary News
The Institute of Planetary Research at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Berlin invites applications for a postdoc position within the framework of a DLR junior research group. The group investigates the thermochemical evolution of Mars and Venus and employs an interdisciplinary approach that combines large-scale geodynamical models of thermal evolution with petrological and geological datasets.
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These Huge 3D Printers Want to Save the Earth (and Maybe Mars) | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
If you're in London between now and February 2020, there's an exhibition at the Design Museum called Moving to Mars , where artists imagine a future on the Red Planet. It's an inspiring look at humanity's potential next planet, but clearly in the realm of the fantastic in parts.
What are we planning, here on Earth to get us ready for next-stage planetary exploration and terraforming tasks? One thing's clear: we'll have to build out habitats with materials on hand. There's no Amazon Prime Mars (yet) for Earth-to-Mars shipments, which is where industrial-scale 3D printing comes into play.
Ikea is helping to redesign simulated Mars habitats – TechCrunch
Levenborn did indeed design an Ikea collection inspired by her time in the habitat, but she and others at Ikea returned the favor as well, coming up with organizational strategies and interior design layouts that emphasized a sense of privacy and personal space even in very cramped quarters, using Ikea shelving units and modular, wheeled furniture for flexibility and tidiness. Warm lighting and outdoor equipment for indoor use also contributed to making the habitat more… well, habitable.
Quite a lot has been going on:
Ride on the Wild Side - Squyres SC19 Mars Rovers Keynote
Reminding us of the deep and enabling connection between HPC and modern science is an important part of the SC Conference mission. And yes, HPC is a science itself. At SC19, Steve Squyres' opening keynote recounting the trials and triumphs of the Mars Exploration rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, was just such a reminder.
Leaving aside for a moment the mammoth effort required to get the twin rovers safely to Mars (~225 million km away), the formal mission was to spend 90 days operating in the harsh Martian environment – peering, digging, grinding, analyzing, (surviving) – and send back data from which scientists could better understand all-things-Mars including finding compelling evidence of flowing water on the Earth's neighbor at some time in the past.
Mars: we may have solved the mystery of how its landslides form
Some landslides on Mars seem to defy an important law of physics. "Long, runout landslides" are formed by huge volumes of rock and soil moving downslope, largely due to the force of gravity. But their power is hard to account for. With volumes exceeding that of the Empire State Building, they move at high speeds of up to 360 kilometres per hour over flat surfaces for up to tens of kilometres.
This seems to indicate that there is no or very little friction present. Friction is the fundamental physical force resisting motion of one surface sliding relative to another. The lack of friction in these long landslides – compared to normal, shorter ones – is comparable to suddenly losing traction when driving a car on a wet or icy surface: you pull the breaks, but you stop well beyond where you intended.
Orange Business Service lands a sweet deal with Mars for managed services | FierceTelecom
Orange Business Services was picked by Mars to build a network that will connect more than 12,500 Mars Associates across more than 80 countries. Orange Business Services is building an intelligent automated network (IAN) for Mars, which makes M&Ms, Snickers, Twix and other food items.
The IAN network will provide a secure, scalable platform to host Mars' business applications on while also supporting manufacturing operations, office locations and supplier interactions for the private, family owned business.
Mars is Making a List and Checking it Twice: this week on the Storyteller's Night Sky |
On Friday, December 6, the red planet Mars will sweep into the scales of Libra, as though he were a right jolly old elf, slipping into position to weigh and balance the naughty and nice on his Christmas list.
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St. Nicholas was also referred to as the Wonder Worker, Sinterklaas, and is the inspiration for modern depictions of Santa Clause. The festive mood of gift-giving that surrounded his feast day spread across the centuries and throughout Europe, until the Protestant Reformation of the 16th and 17th century. At that time, the leaders of the Reformation sought to do away with the cult of saints, in part by abolishing St.
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