Associate Research Professor Devin Schrader uses the ion mass spectrometer at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa to determine the isotopic composition of individual minerals in meteorites.
Research scientist Jemma Davidson uses the electron probe microanalyzer at ASU to obtain high resolution images of the meteorite samples and determine major and minor element data of individual minerals.
Thousands of first-year students will be arriving on campus in the coming weeks to begin their studies, and ASU will provide a full slate of activities for Welcome Week and beyond .
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Mesmerising Animation Reveals Our Entire Solar System Doesn't Exactly Orbit The Sun
It's common knowledge that the Sun is the centre of the Solar System. Around it, the planets orbit – along with a thick belt of asteroids, some meteor fields, and a handful of far-travelling comets.
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"Instead, everything orbits the Solar System centre of mass," James O'Donoghue, a planetary scientist at the Japanese space agency, JAXA, recently explained on Twitter . "Even the Sun."
That centre of mass, called the barycenter, is the point of an object at which it can be balanced perfectly, with all its mass distributed evenly on all sides. In our Solar System, that point rarely lines up with the centre of the Sun.
Out Of This World: Building Helicopters To Explore The Solar System - Are We There Yet -
Engineers are using computer modeling to see how a helicopter might fly on Titan. Photo: Michael Kinzel Engineers are using computer modeling to see how a helicopter might fly on Titan. Photo: Michael Kinzel
NASA's Mars Perseverance rover launched last week carrying a stow-away — a tiny helicopter named Ingenuity. If it works, it will be the first helicopter on another world and engineers and scientists are eagerly awaiting the results of the test flight, calling it Mars' Wright Brother moment.
Gamasutra - Press Releases- Conquer the solar system in the upcoming game Solar Expanse .
Go to the edge of our galaxy and beyond in the one-of-a-kind space challenge that awaits you in Solar Expanse. Take on the leading role of an early 21st-century space exploration company and show your competitors how space exploration is supposed to be done!
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Solar Expanse cleverly mixes strategy elements with economics and management factors and will demand that gamers familiar with the genre bring their A game, as this time they’ll be operating on a whole new, cosmic scale.
Not to change the topic here:
Iron-rich meteorites on Earth reveal geochemistry of solar system's youth, researchers say -
Aug. 4 (UPI) -- New research suggests unique geochemical signatures found in iron-rich meteorites were produced by a process called core crystallization inside the solar system's oldest planetary objects, according to a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience .
For nearly as long as scientists have been finding meteorites, they've been working to group and classify them based on their mineralogy. Advertisement
As instrumentation and chemical analysis techniques have gotten more sophisticated, scientists have been able to organize meteorites into even smaller groups.
Iron-rich Meteorites Show Record Of Core Crystallization In Our Solar System's Oldest
A beautiful illustration of the Widmanstatten pattern, which is characteristic of iron meteorites. CREDIT Image is courtesy of Peng Ni.
New work led by Carnegie's Peng Ni and Anat Shahar uncovers new details about our Solar System's oldest planetary objects, which broke apart in long-ago collisions to form iron-rich meteorites.
Their findings reveal that the distinct chemical signatures of these meteorites can be explained by the process of core crystallization in their parent bodies, deepening our understanding of the geochemistry occurring in the Solar System's youth. They are published by Nature Geoscience.
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Hovering, Flying and Hopping Across the Solar System | Discover Magazine
If you're like most people, you've dreamed of flying (studies show that more than half of us have done it). If you're curious about the universe, you've probably also dreamed about visiting other planets. And if you're willing to wait about nine months, you are in luck — because after that, you won't have to dream anymore.
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The Perseverance rover, scheduled to land on February 18, 2021, is carrying a grapefruit-sized helicopter named Ingenuity strapped to its belly. Assuming all goes well with the touchdown, Perseverance will settle into its new home for about two months. Then it will release a small debris shield, fire a pyrotechnic cable-cutter, unleash a spring-loaded arm and set the little Ingenuity flyer free.
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