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Rover Sets Down in Complex Maneuver
Curiosity has phoned home from the dusty surface of Mars. Radio signals and images received at 10:32 p.m. PDT on August 5 by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirm that the rover has reached Mars’ Gale Crater, Curiosity’s intended destination after an 8.5-month journey of 567 million kilometers. Scientists and engineers packed into the JPL mission [...]
Days Before Curiosity’s Planned Martian Landing
Though nearly empty Thursday afternoon, mission control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratorywill be packed with more than 100 people when the Mars rover Curiosity is set to touch down this Sunday, August 5. But for now, the control room is quiet, illuminated by a dim, soothing blue light. Data and images flash across the enormous screens [...]
Macically Awesome Manhattan
1 1/2 teaspoons Masala Chai (Pace in tea Sac or T-ball avaliable on this site) 30z Bourbon – we are in the south and we do enjoy our bourbon 1 splash of bitters / 1/2 oz sweet vermouth About 4 to 5 hours before serving, place a hand full of raisins in 1 oz of [...]
The Lab Head Speaks Days Before The Mars Science Laboratory’s Scheduled Landing
Charles Elachi is busy this Friday morning. It’s three days before the Curiosity rover is set to land on Mars, and the director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory is cheerfully making tracks between a NASA social media event and his office on JPL’s campus. Elachi has been at JPL for 42 years: He came to Caltech [...]
Mars Mission Will Probe Red Planet’s Past, Present
If, late in the evening of August 5, NASA’s Curiosity rover survives what might be the most daring interplanetary touchdown in history, the six-wheeled robot will find itself in a dramatic landscape ripe with research opportunities: Gale Crater, an enormous basin with a 5-kilometer-tall mountain in the middle, called Mount Sharp. There, Curiosity will look [...]
Blowing Air Through A Pachyderm’s Larynx Offers Hints To Low-Frequency Communication
Elephants don’t purr so much as sing when they unleash low-frequency rumblings at friends and foes kilometers away. Too low for humans to hear, the infrasonic components of elephants’ calls have at times been attributed to a process similar to a cat’s contented thrum. But new measurements made by blowing air through the voice box, [...]
Residents Of Two Peruvian Communities Appear To Have Survived Infection
Some people living in a vampire bat–ridden part of the Peruvian Amazon seem to have developed natural resistance to the rabies virus. “Why these individuals don’t die is very intriguing,” says CDC disease ecologist Amy Gilbert, who led a study by researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Peruvian Ministry [...]
PONTE VEDRA CONCERT HALL Presents The Saucer Series
Flying Saucer Presents is joining with the Ponte Vedra Concert Hall to present the Saucer Series, a celebration of Americana music. From the iconic to the up-and-coming, the series will feature top tier artists, whose styles cut across a variety of music genres. One evening you could be captivated by the new folk [...]
South Africa Cave Yields Artifacts Much Like Those Used In Region Today
People living in a South African cave 44,000 years ago crafted the same kinds of blades, beads and tools as hunter-gatherers of the region today. The artifacts push the history of modern human behavior in southern Africa back more than 20,000 years, archaeologists report online July 30 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, [...]
The Stunning Salt Marsh Landscape
Every week we discuss a new ‘green’ movement, product, company, or discuss the newest way to recycle items. Whether it be the latest in fashion or food or other businesses, ‘going green’ is a large part of every industry on the map. The Green Register is the online magazine that literally offers information on [...]