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Mars’ Curiosity to Examine Odd Rock en Route to Mount Sharp
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Curiosity is about 8 feet (2.5 meters) from an unusual rock. It lies about halfway from the rover’s landing site, Bradbury Landing, to a location called Glenelg. In coming days, the team plans to touch the rock with a spectrometer to determine its elemental composition and use an arm-mounted camera to take close-up photographs.
“As we’re getting closer to the light-toned area, we see thin, dark bands of unknown origin,” said Mars Science Laboratory Project Scientist John Grotzinger of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. “The smaller-scale diversity is becoming more evident as we get closer, providing more potential targets for investigation.”
Both the arm-mounted Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometerand the mast-mounted, laser-zapping Chemistry and Camera Instrument will be used for identifying elements in the rock. This will allow cross-checking of the two instruments. Curiosity now has driven six days in a row. Daily distances range from 72 feet to 121 feet (22 meters to 37 meters).
The rock has been named “Jake Matijevic.” Jacob Matijevic (mah-TEE-uh-vik) was the surface operations systems chief engineer for Mars Science Laboratory and the project’s Curiosity rover. He passed away Aug. 20, at age 64. Matijevic also was a leading engineer for all of the previous NASA Mars rovers: Sojourner, Spirit and Opportunity.
(via dailygalaxy)
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LED Street Arts by Ojo Señor
The eyes may be the window to the soul but no one who ever saw glow-y cat eyes in the middle of the night was doing too much contemplating. Ojo captures this more frightening aspect of eyes and turns them on with LED lights laced into his posters. It’s then plastered along the streets, his cat, children, and Poe eyes all the better to see you with…
