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20-Aug-2020
Searching Mars for signatures of life
DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Today, Mars is an arid, dusty, and frigid landscape with an average temperature of minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit--inhospitable to life as we know it. But it wasn't always that way.
13-Aug-2020
Podcast explains how plutonium powers Mars exploration
DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
To have dependable power to explore the the frigid surface of Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover is equipped with a type of power system called a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG)--which is what the latest episode of Mars Technica will tell listeners all about.
10-Aug-2020
Simulating crash into asteroid reveals its heavy metal psyche
DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
New 2D and 3D computer modeling of impacts on the asteroid Psyche, the largest Main Belt asteroid, indicate it is probably metallic and porous in composition, something like a flying cosmic rubble pile.
6-Aug-2020
Take a guided 'tour' of SuperCam on the new Mars rover
DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
NASA's new Perseverance rover, which just started its seven-month journey to Mars, carries on board what is likely the most versatile instrument ever created to understand the planet's past habitability: SuperCam--and a new podcast will tell listeners all about it.
29-Jul-2020
Was there life on Mars? New podcast explores instruments aboard Mars rover
DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Could Jezero Crater hold the keys to unlocking an ancient and hidden past when life might have existed on the Martian surface?
27-Jul-2020
Ning Xu selected fellow of the American Chemical Society
DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Ning Xu of the Actinide Analytical Chemistry group at Los Alamos has been selected as a member of the 2020 class of Fellows of the American Chemical Society (ACS). Xu is being recognized for her sustained contributions to actinide analytical chemistry in support of national nuclear defense, technical nuclear forensics, nuclear material safeguards and deep space exploration.
27-Jul-2020
New Mars rover tool will zap rocks to investigate planet's past habitability
DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
When NASA's Perseverance rover launches from Florida on its way to Mars, it will carry aboard what is likely the most versatile instrument ever made to better understand the Red Planet's past habitability.