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Curiosity rover overcomes temporary freeze after 鈥榓ttitude adjustment鈥

"In the images from orbit, it looks like someone drew a thick straight line with a dark felt marker on the southeastern side of the butte," wrote Melissa Rice, planetary geologist at Western Washington University in a mission blog post. "From the ground, it looks like a shallow ditch filled with鈥

Carolina Alvarado to Present 'Identifying physics practices to redefine our learning environment for physics ' on Nov. 21
A black hole stars: New discovery adds to our map of the universe

Science is at its heart a treasure hunt.

A pair of astrophysicists, Carles Badenes of the University of Pittsburgh and Todd Thompson of Ohio State University, showed the value of pursuing the treasure of hidden knowledge in a paper published recently.

With the help of a team of鈥

'Fishing expedition' leads Pitt astrophysicist to discover smallest known black hole

Three years ago, Carles Badenes and his fellow astrophysicist Todd Thompson were at a conference where researchers were invited to put together impromptu proposals 鈥 pitched and awarded in the same weekend 鈥 in hopes of getting a small amount of seed funding to pursue a 鈥渃razy idea.鈥

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Seattle-Based First Mode Teams With NASA to Design Next-Gen Rover for a New Lunar Mission

, earlier this month First Mode and Western Washington University announced they had鈥

Max Knittel to retire after 44 years at Western
First Mode and Western Washington Univ. win NASA鈥檚 nod to make Mars geology tool

厂别补迟迟濒别鈥檚&苍产蝉辫; team and  say they鈥檝e won a NASA contract to advance the technology for sizing up rocks on Mars.

The project, funded under NASA鈥檚 Solar System鈥

Gaia鈥檚 findings on travelling stars

草榴社区's Marina Kounkel used data from Gaia鈥檚 second release to trace the structure and star formation activity of a large patch of space surrounding the solar system, and to explore how this changed over time. This data release, provided in April 2018, lists the motions and positions of over鈥

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草榴社区's Melissa Rice to Speak May 28 about Mapping Mars
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