Sun Goes Longer Than Normal Without Producing Sunspots
21:41 09-06-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
The sun has been laying low for the past couple of years, producing no sunspots and giving a break to satellites. Periods of inactivity are normal, but this one has gone on longer than usual, scientists said recently.
Phoenix Mars Lander Sifts For Samples, Continues Imaging Landing Site
06:41 09-06-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
On Sunday, Sol 14 of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander mission, mechanical shakers inside the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer will attempt to loosen clumped soils on the device's screens to allow material to fall into the oven for analysis later in the week.
Mars Lander Scoops First Soil Sample For Laboratory Analysis
00:41 07-06-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander made its first dig into Martian soil for science studies and is poised to deliver the scoopful to a laboratory instrument on the lander deck. The instrument will bake and sniff the soil to assess its volatile ingredients, such as water.
Where Mathematics And Astrophysics Meet
03:41 06-06-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
The mathematicians were trying to extend an illustrious result in their field, the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra. The astrophysicists were working on a fundamental problem in their field, the problem of gravitational lensing. That the two groups were in fact working on the same question is both expected and unexpected: The "unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics" is well known throughout the sciences, but every new instance produces welcome insights and sheer delight.
Highest Resolution View Ever From Mars Comes From NASA Lander
03:41 06-06-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
A microscope on NASA's Mars Phoenix Lander has taken images of dust and sand particles with the greatest resolution ever returned from another planet. The mission's Optical Microscope observed particles that had fallen onto an exposed surface, revealing grains as small as one-tenth the diameter of a human hair.
Cassini Sees Collisions Of Moonlets On Saturn's Ring
18:41 05-06-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
A team of scientists has discovered that the rapid changes in Saturn's F ring can be attributed to small moonlets causing perturbations. Their results are reported in Nature. Saturn's F ring has long been of interest to scientists as its features change on timescales from hours to years and it is probably the only location in the solar system where large scale collisions happen on a daily basis.
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