Enchanting Encanto Calls: Sols 3732-3734
Wednesday, 08 February 2023 09:37
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Today we made a three-sol plan for the weekend including contact science, lot of imaging, and a long drive back toward the previously attempted marker band drill target, Encanto. After additional exploration of the marker band, the team decided it was worth turning around and trying to drill again in the same general location as Encanto.
I took on a new role as Engineering Uplink Lead (EUL Searching for a Drill Site Near Encanto: Sols 3735-3736
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Curiosity successfully followed her tracks and is back near the Encanto drill site! With a beautiful workspace in view, the science and operations team had a busy day of planning on the "Marker band" surface. We assessed potential drill targets, selected targets for contact science, and planned imaging.
When evaluating the rocks in the area for the best possible drill site, the team focuse Asteroid impact in slow motion
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Asteroid impacts are catastrophic events that create huge craters and sometimes melt parts of Earth's bedrock." Nevertheless, craters are often difficult to detect on Earth, because erosion, weathering and plate tectonics cause them to disappear over millions of years," Langenhorst explains. Therefore, minerals that undergo characteristic changes due to the force of the impact often serve as evi How to reverse unknown quantum processes
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In the world around us processes appear to follow a certain time-direction: dandelions eventually turn into blowballs. However, the quantum realm does not play by the same rules. Physicists from the University of Vienna and IQOQI Vienna have now shown that for certain quantum systems the time-direction of processes can be reversed. This demonstration of a so-called rewinding protocol has been pu Distortion-free structured light
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An exciting prospect in modern optics is to exploit patterns of light - how the light looks in its many degrees of freedom - often referred to as "structured light." Each distinct pattern could form an encoding alphabet for optical communication, or might be used in manufacturing to enhance performance and productivity. Unfortunately, patterns of light get distorted when they pass through noisy In search of the invisible galaxy
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A mysterious and very distant object, in a universe as it was 'just' two billion years after the Big Bang, that hides from even the most advanced instruments. Its features have finally been described by a team from SISSA in a recently published study reported in The Astrophysical Journal.
An extremely remote celestial body in a still young Universe, one sixth the size of the present one. A Virgin Orbit narrows down cause of LauncherOne failure
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Virgin Orbit’s chief executive said Feb. 7 that a problem with a relatively inexpensive part may be linked to the failure of the company’s latest launch last month.
As directed by Congress, Space Force to procure wideband communications satellite
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NASA refining Artemis exploration architecture
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NASA is still working to refine an architecture for the next phases of its Artemis lunar exploration campaign which it now expects to roll out in April.
Space Force touts benefits of deploying military payloads on commercial satellites
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The Pathfinder 2 military transponder will give the U.S.
Spectrum strategy divides emerging direct-to-smartphone market
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Executives with plans to connect satellites directly to smartphones sparred at the SmallSat Symposium Feb.
Sateliot and Sentrisense forge pact to monitor electric grid
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Sateliot and Sentrisense plan to offer satellite connectivity for electric grid sensors.
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Space industry undeterred by congestion and debris
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The space industry does not expect its growth to be dampened by congestion or doom-and-gloom narrative, executives said Feb.
Small satellite sector should prepare for Starship
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Small satellite manufacturers should prepare for the emergence of rideshare flights on the SpaceX Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy launch vehicle, according to panelists speaking Feb.
A circular economy to tackle space junk
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Southampton researchers have developed the world's first robust method for estimating the value and mass of space junk.
A fully circular economy for space—removing space junk and reusing or recycling it—is a viable possibility to safeguard the future for satellites and space exploration, according to new research from the University of Southampton.
The research estimates there is billions, potentially trillions, of dollars' worth of recyclable materials, in the form of space junk (mission debris and defunct satellites), orbiting the Earth. Knowing what is 'out there' will enable viable solutions to the growing problem to be effectively and justifiably pursued.
Space junk is a form of pollution that poses a threat to future space exploration and satellites—which we rely heavily on here on Earth.
As of January 2021, the US Space Surveillance Network reported 21,901 artificial objects in orbit around Earth, including almost 4,500 functioning satellites. But these are just the objects large enough to be tracked. There is also estimated to be more than 128 million pieces of debris smaller than 1cm, more than 900,000 pieces measuring 1cm to 10cm, and 34,000 pieces larger than 10cm.