Looking at Mars Organic
The new mission is NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, will be transported by the vehicle in November Curiosity robotic and will work analyzing organic compounds in water to detect whether there are ways of life. The teams also collected d soil, rocks and Martian atmosphere, and in particular will be an analysis of solid samples.
worth noting that the design and operation of the mission has been participating the Mexican scientist Rafael Navarro, Institute of Nuclear Sciences (ICN) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM .)
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always are hitting us!
Approximately 100 tons of meteoroids, ie fragments of dust and gravel and even boulders bigger every day enter Earth's atmosphere.
For this reason the Office of Meteoroid Environment, NASA headed by William Cooke, has created a software special, from groups of smart cameras triangulate the trajectory of the fireballs and use the information to calculate their orbits.
is very important to obtain information from these blows, because it can analyze the speed of meteors according to their size and thus make better designs of spacecraft ... but not only that! also located the place where the meteor falls to collect it and thus achieve know its origin.
Finally, William Cooke provides advice for those interested in observing meteors:
"Get on a clear night, lie on the floor with the body extended and look straight up. In their eyes it will take 30 to 40 minutes to get used to the darkness, so be patient. Looking straight up, achieved also discern traces of meteors with your peripheral vision. No special equipment needed, only their eyes "
