Professor John Zarnecki, principal investigator on Huygens' surface science package (SSP) said the area where Huygens landed appeared to have a thin crust that overlies a material with more uniform consistency something like wet sand.
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An initiative to assess erosion and sediment transport to marine, lake or reservoir environments aimed at the creation of a holistic approach for the remediation and conservation of surface waters, closely linking science with policy and management needs.
In Washtenaw County and Ann Arbor, Michigan a 1, 4-Dioxane, in groundwater and surface soil contamination from Gelman Science, persists after nearly 20 years of cleanup activities and has now spread in groundwater to an area over three miles long and a mile wide.
But the actual streams themselves may have persisted on the surface for long periods, said Curiosity science co-investigator Bill Dietrich of the University of California, Berkeley.
"If anybody has been harboring doubts about the status of U.S. leadership in space, well, there's a one-ton, automobile-size piece of American ingenuity, and it's sitting on the surface of Mars right now, " said White House science adviser John P.
And in case you missed the latest robotic resident arriving on Mars you can watch the action replay and view the very first pictures beamed back from the surface of the Red Planet on Nasa's Mars Science Laboratory mission homepage.
His insect research on the surface looks like quite a leap from previous projects in fundamental science.
The research, published online Thursday in the journal Science, offers a new perspective below the Martian surface and hints of past flooding at a time when the planet was mostly thought to be cold and desert-like.
The same thing was said about our ability to harness the science and technology to land a man safely on the surface of the moon.
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This software for Mars surface operations was uploaded to the rover's memory during the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft's flight from Earth.
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On Sunday, the Mars Science Laboratory executed a series of maneuvers designed to slow its approach to the Mars surface.
Together, we touched the surface of the moon, unlocked the mystery of the atom, connected the world through our own science and our own imaginations.
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One major unsettled issue in climate science indeed is what this sensitivity is, and several threads of information, including the surface temperature history, and water vapor and cloud data argue Lindzen may be correct.
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That unpleasant thumbnail touches on a debate that has been brewing in science and journalism circles for a long time, though recently it has been percolating to the surface in blog posts, tweets, and flaming Facebook entries.
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