Preliminary Self-Portrait of Curiosity by Rover's
Arm Camera

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Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 02, 2012
On Sol 84 (Oct. 31, 2012), the Curiosity rover used the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) to capture the set of thumbnail images stitched together to create this full-color self-portrait. This self-portrait documents the state of the rover and allows mission engineers to track changes over time, such as dust accumulation and wheel wear. Due to its location on the end of the robotic arm, only M

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Globalstar Birds To Launch On Soyuz Next February

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Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Nov 02, 2012
Preparations are underway for a medium-lift Soyuz launch to deploy the six final spacecraft in Globalstar's second-generation constellation, with the mission scheduled to lift off from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome next February. This is the last of four flights contracted to Arianespace for the orbiting of Globalstar's second-generation constellation, completing a series of launches th

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Curious About Life: Interview with Jennifer Stern

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Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 02, 2012
The Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover has 10 science instruments, and each will be used in the coming weeks and months to help characterize the environment of Mars and determine if the planet ever had the potential for life. The Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument is actually a combination of three individual instruments that will investigate the chemistry of the Martian surface

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Asteroid Belts at Just the Right Place are
Friendly to Life

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Solar systems with life-bearing planets may be rare if they are dependent on the presence of asteroid belts of just the right mass, according to a study by Rebecca Martin, a NASA Sagan Fellow from the University of Colorado in Boulder, and astronomer Mario Livio of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md. They suggest that the size and location of an asteroid belt, shaped by

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Space Station's Orbit Raised to Avoid Space Junk

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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 02, 2012
The Russian Mission Control said the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) was raised on Thursday by one kilometer to avoid a possible collision with space junk. "The maneuver to adjust the station's orbit lasted 406 seconds [about seven minutes]... The average height of the orbit was raised by one kilometer," a spokesman for the Mission Control said. He added that the readj

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Slice of History: 1944 Map of JPL

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By Julie CooperEach month in “Slice of History” we feature a historical photo from the JPL Archives. See more historical photos and explore the JPL Archives at https://beacon.jpl.nasa.gov/.1944 Map of JPL — Photograph Number HC 3-1294On October 31, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., celebrated its 76th anniversary. It began with a few [...]

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NCBI ROFL: Umpires need sports medicine too, you
know!

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Caring for umpires, officials, and referees.

“Umpires, referees, and sports officials have not been accorded the same attention as athletes by the sports medicine community. The physical and psychological demands of their jobs expose them to a unique constellation of medical, psychological, and orthopedic problems. Likewise their age, fitness level, and disease risk factors may warrant closer scrutiny for them and greater need for participation evaluation than the athletes with whom they share the field. Limited medical literature is published regarding the care of sports officials, even though they have a higher incidence of medical problems, cardiovascular risk, and orthopedic injuries than sports participants.”

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Unlocking the destiny of a cell

Scientists have discovered that breaking a biological signaling system in an embryo allows them to change the destiny of a cell. The findings could lead to new ways of making replacement organs.

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Biology & Aging

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Sequencing DNA from Individual Cells Yields
Dramatic New Information

Reblogged from memoirs on a rainy day: Nicolas Navin wanted to work out the sequence from individual cancer cells to see how they had mutated and diverged as the cancer grew. Back in 2010, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York and exploring the genetic changes that occur during [...]

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Bigger human genome pool uncovers more rare
variants

Thanks to powerful computational tools developed at Simon Fraser University, more than 100 scientists from around the world have genetically mapped the largest and most varied number of human genomes to date. The scientists, including SFU doctoral students Iman Hajirasouliha and Fereydoun Hormozdiari (recently graduated), sequenced and analyzed a pool of 1092 human genomes. Hormozdiari [...]

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