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Meteorite Discovery

NASA Scientist Confirms California Meteorite Discovery

KTVU-TV http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/nasa-scientist-confirms-meteorite-discovered-novat/Sjhj/ reports that "Peter Jenniskens, principal investigator for NASA's CAMS Project (Cameras for Allsky Meteor Surveillance),
Dr. Lou Allamandola

TIME magazine's list of 25 Most Influential Scientists

Congratulations to Dr. Lou Allamandola of the Space Science and Astrobiology Division.

 

 

 

 

 

Mars Science Laboratory

Update on CheMin and the MSL Curiosity Rover

Curiosity landed on Mars on 5 August and began a first-use checkout of rover and instrumental systems (called “CAP-1” and “CAP-2”).  CheMin’s first activity on Mars was an “aliveness check” on 9 August in which dark frames (CCD images taken without active cooling and without a powered X-ray source) were collected and sent to ground to test the instrument electronics (all downloaded data were nominal). 
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