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UNLV Student Selected by NASA for Competitive Three-Year Fellowship | News Center | University of
Arecibo radio telescope goes dark after snapped cable shreds dish | Science | AAAS
The iconic Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico was damaged early on 10 August when a snapped steel cable smashed into one of its antennas and tore a 30-meter gash in its 307-meter-wide dish. Observations have been halted for at least 2 weeks while investigations are carried out, say Ramon Lugo, director of the Florida Space Institute at the University of Central Florida (UCF), which manages the observatory for the National Science Foundation (NSF).
For nearly 60 years Arecibo has been a mainstay of radio astronomy, atmospheric research, and planetary science. For decades, it was the main telescope used in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Its dramatic appearance has won it supporting roles in several films. Its fixed dish, built into a natural depression in the surrounding hills, was the largest single dish in the world until 2016, when it was overtaken by China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope
Free boat in, drive in, sit out movies | PenBay Pilot
Bring your car, your boat, your kids or just yourselves, and enjoy three days of movies under the stars. The 17' x 30' pop-up screen with enhanced sound will take you back to the days of Drive-Ins, and we've picked three 1980s movies to fit the mood: "Dirty Dancing," E.T. the Extraterrestrial," and "Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark."
The series starts off on Thursday, Aug. 27 with a "Boat-In" at Linekin Bay Resort and the 1987 hit "Dirty Dancing." How can anyone forget "Baby," the teenage daughter of guests at a summer resort (not unlike Linekin Bay Resort) who falls for a smooth floor show dancer doing The Dirty Boogie?
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A Helicopter Ride Over Mars? NASA's About to Give It a Shot | WIRED
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"I see it as kind of a Wright brothers moment on another planet," says Bob Balaram, the chief engineer for the Mars helicopter project at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "It's a high-risk, high-reward mission that could enable us to go to lots of places we haven't been able to go before."
Satellites are good at getting a global understanding of a planet, and the rovers are great at exploring a relatively small amount of terrain in minute detail. For everything in between, it helps to have an airborne system. A rover can only cover a few dozen kilometers over the course of several years, but future extraterrestrial drones could easily cover that in a day.
The lowdown on Champions League quarter-finalists Lyon - Evening Express
Manchester City face Lyon in the Champions League quarter-finals at the Jose Alvalade Stadium in Lisbon on Saturday.
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Lyon stunned perennial Serie A winners Juventus to reach the last eight for the first time in a decade. Les Gones beat the Italians 1-0 in the first leg of their last-16 tie in February and then went through on away goals after a 2-1 defeat in Turin in the long-delayed second leg last week. They needed to survive a nail-biting finale as, after taking an early lead with a Memphis Depay penalty at the Allianz Stadium, Juve powered back with a Cristiano Ronaldo double.
Dual awards support Professor Erika Gibb's work with comets | UMSL
Awards from the National Science Foundation and from NASA Missouri Space Grant Consortium will help UMSL Professor of Physics and Astronomy Erika Gibb continue her work observing comet composition while creating opportunities for students. (Photo by August Jennewein)
For her research on comets, Erika Gibb spends a good amount of time peering into space with powerful telescopes such as those at the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility .
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Gibb first became interested in comets while studying ices in dust clouds in space during graduate school at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York. Those dust and ice clouds collapse to form stars, and Gibb wanted to know how much chemistry was involved in that process. She reached out to NASA planetary scientist Michael Mumma , interested in comparing their compositions to that of comets.
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