Spirit is doing its thing looking across the landscape of Mars from Larry's Lookout.
"We're at Larry's Lookout," said Steve Squyres, leader of the Mars rover science team at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. The last few days on Mars have
been spent jockeying the rover into position to take the "Lookout Pan", he added, a rover photographic assignment to fully document the view from the crest of Cumberland Ridge.
No pictures were available.
Cassini Update
There's a lot of little observations reported here.
Ever since the Cassini spacecraft began taking pictures of Saturn and its moons last February, scientists have had plenty of work on their plates. Last week several new images and data from the mission were published in the journal Science.
Among the findings is the detection of molecular oxygen around Saturn's A ring. (The ring system begins from the inside out in this order: D, C, B, A, F, G, E.)
Molecular oxygen forms when two oxygen atoms bond together. It is rarely seen beyond Earth, where it is created continuously as a byproduct of photosynthesis in plants.
On Saturn, where there is no plant life, molecular oxygen must be formed in a different way -- through a chemical reaction between the Sun's radiation and the icy particles that comprise Saturn's rings, scientists said.
There are more little goodies. Check it out only if you have time. :)
- Art neuro
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