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Dec 13, 2019
100 Mysterious Blinking Lights in The Night Sky Could be Evidence of Alien Life… or Something Weird, Say Boffins
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: alien life
Dec 13, 2019
Scientists map Mars’ global wind patterns for the first time
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: climatology, space travel
Today, a paper published in Science documents for the first time the global wind circulation patterns in the upper atmosphere of a planet, 120 to 300 kilometers above the surface. The findings are based on local observations, rather than indirect measurements, unlike many prior measurements taken on Earth’s upper atmosphere. But it didn’t happen on Earth: it happened on Mars. On top of that, all the data came from an instrument and a spacecraft that weren’t originally designed to collect wind measurements.
In 2016, Mehdi Benna and his colleagues proposed to the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) project team that they remotely reprogram the MAVEN spacecraft and its Natural Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer (NGIMS) instrument to do a unique experiment. They wanted to see if parts of the instrument that were normally stationary could “swing back and forth like a windshield wiper fast enough,” to enable the tool to gather a new kind of data.
Initially, the MAVEN project team was reluctant to implement the modifications Benna and his colleagues requested. After all, MAVEN and NGIMS had been orbiting Mars since 2013, and they were working quite well collecting information about the composition of the Mars atmosphere. Why put all that at risk? Benna and his colleagues argued that this project would collect new kinds of data that could shape our understanding of the upper atmosphere on Mars, inform similar studies on Earth, and help us better understand planetary climate.
Dec 13, 2019
NASA finds ‘water ice’ just below the surface of Mars
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: space, sustainability
Within an hour, this petition could have thousands more supporters if everyone chipped in the price of a coffee. Can you help reach this petition’s signature goal?
Dec 13, 2019
Google is sending text messages without asking: Why?
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
A growing number of users are concerned that Google has been sending outgoing text messages without notification. Why? Google says it’s for verification.
Dec 13, 2019
Artificial intelligence will help determine if you get your next job
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: robotics/AI
AI is being used to attract applicants and to predict a candidate’s fit for a position. But is it up to the task?
Dec 13, 2019
Sex and Biotech — Dr. Nicole Prause, Ph.D, Founder of Liberos LLC — ideaXme — Ira Pastor
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: aging, biotech/medical, business, DNA, health, innovation, life extension, science, sex, transhumanism
Calling all radio amateurs! We’re challenging anyone with amateur radio equipment to catch the first signals from #OPS –SAT, ESA’s brand new space software lab. On 17 December, OPS-SAT will be launched into space with ESA’s #Cheops exoplanet satellite.
Once launched, the satellite will deploy its solar panels and ultra-high frequency antenna, and then start to send signals back home. Could you be the first on Earth to catch them? ESA’s mission control team in Darmstadt are asking for your help to find the fledgling #CubeSat 👉 http://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/Calling_radio…nd_OPS-SAT
