Archives for March 2007
Large Reservoir of Water Ice Found on Mars
Published on 16 Mar 2007 at 4:51 am.
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Filed under Astrobiology, Exploration, Mars, Research.
The Mars Express probe launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) has been using ground penetrating radar to look for subsurface water. The instrument MARSIS, which stands for Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding instrument has succeeded in detecting an enormous reservoir of water ice frozen under the south polar ice cap. The [...]
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YouTube and Macromedia Flash Player
Published on 15 Mar 2007 at 1:20 pm.
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Filed under Internet, Note to Self, Software, Solutions.
I recently did some uninstalling on my laptop to try to get rid of all the software that runs in the background bogging my machine down. However, when I went to YouTube, I found that I could no longer view the videos. I got the message:
“Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of [...]
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Lakes and Seas on Titan
Published on 14 Mar 2007 at 1:33 am.
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Filed under Astronomy, Exploration, Titan.
The Cassini probe, currently in orbit around Saturn, has obtained radar images of large lakes or seas of liquid near the north pole of Saturn’s largest moon Titan. It has long been suspected that there was liquid methane and ethane on Titan’s surface that evaporated replenishing Titan’s atmosphere. These images provide the best evidence to [...]
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Spirit Rover Working Hard!
Published on 13 Mar 2007 at 6:02 pm.
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Filed under Astronomy, Exploration, Intelligent Systems, Mars, Robotics.
The Mars Exploration Rovers have been exploring Mars for more than three years now. That is quite remarkable given the fact that the mission was designed to last 90 Sols or 90 Martian days, which is about 90 Earth days. The two rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, landed on opposite sides of the planet so that [...]
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Ten Lessons I wish I had been Taught
Published on 13 Mar 2007 at 2:27 am.
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Filed under Philosophy, Research.
Below is a wonderful talk by the mathematician Gian-Carlo Rota on Ten Lessons. You can find this elsewhere on the web, but his advice is so good that anyone in research or academia should read it.
Enjoy,
Kevin Knuth
Albany NY
Ten Lessons I wish I had been Taught
Gian-Carlo Rota
MIT, April 20 , 1996 on the occasion of the [...]
