The Astronomy Thread
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This is just very early theories explaining what they have observed so far. It will take a while to track its movement to refine the theories, but it is an interesting discovery. Whether its an orphaned planet, an aborted star or the fall out from another ocurrence, like a dying star or colliding galaxies, something formed it and sent it on its current path.
It will be interesting to see what emerges with further observations.
It will be interesting to see what emerges with further observations.
Still looking forward to hearing the exciting news the NASA controllers are keeping quiet about it until the facts have been checked out, John Grotzinger principal investigator for Curiosity quotes "This data is gonna be one for the history books. It's looking really good,"
the data comes from the rover's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument, which consists of a six-column gas chromatograph, a quadrupole mass spectrometer, and a tunable laser spectrometer. This gives SAM the ability to find organic life, if it exists. So far Curiosity has done a sample scoop of soil for SAM earlier this month, and NASA announced more samples were going to be taken last week from an area the team have dubbed Rocknest. It appears they have found something very special, but Grotzinger says his lips are sealed.
the data comes from the rover's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument, which consists of a six-column gas chromatograph, a quadrupole mass spectrometer, and a tunable laser spectrometer. This gives SAM the ability to find organic life, if it exists. So far Curiosity has done a sample scoop of soil for SAM earlier this month, and NASA announced more samples were going to be taken last week from an area the team have dubbed Rocknest. It appears they have found something very special, but Grotzinger says his lips are sealed.
