[meteorite-list] Opportunity Rover Examining Odd Mars Rocks at Valley Overlook

2015-03-05 Thread Ron Baalke via Meteorite-list


http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4502

Rover Examining Odd Mars Rocks at Valley Overlook
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
March 5, 2015

THINGS TO KNOW:

o Rover is examining rocks with composition unlike any previously found 
on Mars

o Opportunity has switched to a new version of its flight software, with 
plans for flash memory reformatting.

o Remaining distance to reach marathon-race equivalent is 140 yards (128 
meters)

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity climbed last month to an overlook 
for surveying Marathon Valley, a science destination chosen because 
spectrometer observations from orbit indicate exposures of clay minerals.

Near the overlook, it found blocky rocks so unlike any previously examined 
on Mars that the rover team has delayed other activities to provide time 
for a thorough investigation.

We drove to the edge of a plateau to look down in the valley, and we 
found these big, dark-gray blocks along the ridgeline, said Opportunity 
Project Scientist Matt Golombek of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, 
California. We checked one and found its composition is different from 
any ever measured before on Mars. So, whoa! Let's study these more before 
moving on.

The first rock checked at the site has relatively high concentrations 
of aluminum and silicon, and an overall composition not observed before 
by either Opportunity or its twin rover, Spirit. This was determined by 
examining the rock, called Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau, with the Alpha 
Particle X-ray Spectrometer instrument on the end of Opportunity's robotic 
arm. The next target rock at the site is called Sergeant Charles Floyd. 
The team's target-naming theme in the area is from the Lewis and Clark 
expedition.

Although the rocks are gray, the visible-light spectrum of the Charbonneau 
type has more purple than most Mars rocks, and the spectrum of the Floyd 
type has more blue. Of the two types, the bluer rocks tend to lie higher 
on the ridge.

Actions to restore use of Opportunity's non-volatile flash file system 
will resume after inspection of the rocks on this ridge. Due to recurrent 
problems with the flash memory, including amnesia events and computer 
resets, Opportunity has been operating since late 2014 in a mode that 
avoids use of the flash memory.

Between the stops at Charbonneau and Floyd, the rover team uploaded to 
Opportunity a new version of the rover's flight software. The new version 
is designed to use only six of the rover's seven banks of flash memory. 
It will avoid the seventh bank, known to be a problem area.

The rover is using the new software, but a memory reformatting will be 
needed before resuming use of flash memory. After reformatting, the operations 
team will avoid use of the rover's arm for several days to make sure the 
flash file system is fixed and no longer causes resets. A reset during 
the use of the rover's arm would require a complex recovery effort.

As of March 5, Opportunity has driven 26.139 miles (42.067 kilometers) 
since it landed on Mars in January 2004. This brings it within 140 yards 
(128 meters) of reaching the distance of a marathon  footrace.

JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, 
manages the Mars Exploration Rover Project for NASA's Science Mission 
Directorate in Washington. For more information about Spirit and Opportunity, 
visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/rovers

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov

You can follow the project on Twitter and on Facebook at:

http://twitter.com/MarsRovers

http://www.facebook.com/mars.rovers


Media Contact

Guy Webster
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
818-354-6278
guy.webs...@jpl.nasa.gov 

2015-078

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[meteorite-list] Finding meteorite impacts in Aboriginal oral tradition

2015-03-05 Thread Shawn Alan via Meteorite-list
Hello Listers,

Heres a good read :)

Enjoy

Shawn Alan
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Website http://meteoritefalls.com 


Finding meteorite impacts in Aboriginal oral tradition

IMAGINE going about your normal day when a brilliant light races across
the sky. It explodes, showering the ground with small stones and sending
a shock wave across the land. The accompanying boom is deafening and
leaves people running and screaming. 

This was the description of an incident that occurred over the skies of
Chelyabinsk, Russia on February 15, 2013, one of the best recorded
meteoritic events in history. This airburst was photographed and videoed
by many people so we have a good record of what occurred, which helped
explain the nature of the event. 

But how do we find out about much older events when modern recordings
were not available? 

A century before Chelyabinsk, a similar event occurred on July 30, 1908,
over the remote Siberian forest near Tunguska. 

That explosion was even more powerful, flattening 80 million trees over
an area of 2,000 square kilometres and sending a shock wave around the
Earth - twice. It was 19 years before scientists reached the Tunguska
site to study the effects of the blast. 

The apparent lack of a meteorite fuelled speculation about how it
formed, from sober suggestions of an exploding comet to more outlandish
claims of mini-black holes and crashed alien spacecraft (research
confirms it was an exploding meteorite). 

Meteoric events in Indigenous oral tradition 

In 1926, the ethnographer Innokenty Suslov interviewed the local
Indigenous Evenk people, who still vividly remembered the Tunguska
airburst. 

At the time, a great feud persisted among Evenki clans. One clan called
upon a shaman named Magankan to destroy their enemy. On the morning of
July 30th, 1908, Magankan sent Agdy, the god of thunder, to demonstrate
his power. 

Many Indigenous cultures attribute meteoritic events to the power of sky
beings. The Wardaman people of northern Australia tell of Utdjungon, a
being who lives in the Coalsack nebula by the Southern Cross. 

He will cast a fiery star to the Earth if laws and traditions are not
followed. The falling star will cause the earth to shake and the trees
to topple. 

Like the Evenki, it seems the Wardaman have faced Utdjungon's wrath
before. 

The Luritja people of Central Australia also tell of an object that fell
to Earth as punishment for breaking sacred law. And we can still see the
scars of this event today.

source:  
http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/finding-meteorite-impacts-aboriginal-oral-traditio/2563028/
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[meteorite-list] Mars Rover Opportunity Update: February 19-26, 2015

2015-03-05 Thread Ron Baalke via Meteorite-list

http://mars.nasa.gov/mer/mission/status.html#opportunity

OPPORTUNITY UPDATE:  New Flight Software to Fix Memory Issues is Onboard 
Rover - sols 3937-3943, February 19, 2015-February 26, 2015:

Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater near Marathon Valley, 
a putative location for abundant clay minerals now only about 492 feet 
(150 meters) away.

The project is preparing to mask off the troubled Bank 7 sector of the 
Flash file system with a new version of the flight software (FSW). The 
preparations for the FSW load and build were to begin with the 3-sol plan 
on Sol 3938 (Feb. 20, 2015). However, bad weather and a complex power 
outage in Canberra, Australia prevented the plans from being sent. The 
rover was allowed to safely execute its onboard runout plan for the weekend.

On Sol 3941 (Feb. 23, 2015), preparations were restarted for the FSW build. 
Remote sensing observations of Marathon Valley were also performed. On 
Sol 3942 (Feb. 24, 2015), the FSW patch was uploaded and the new FSW was 
successfully built and saved onboard. On the next sol, Opportunity successfully 
booted onto the new version of FSW and is running without error. Further 
remote observations of Marathon Valley with the Panoramic Camera (Pancam) 
and the collection of an atmospheric argon measurement with the Alpha 
Particle X-ray Spectrometer were also commanded. The plan ahead is to 
allow a few days to confirm all aspects of the new FSW before performing 
the reformat of the Flash file system with the new software.

As of Sol 3943 (Feb. 26, 2015), the solar array energy production was 
559 watt-hours with an atmospheric opacity (Tau) of 0.734 and a solar 
array dust factor of 0.674.

Total odometry is 26.13 miles (42.05 kilometers).
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[meteorite-list] NASA Research Suggests Mars Once Had More Water than Earth's Arctic Ocean

2015-03-05 Thread Ron Baalke via Meteorite-list


March 5, 2015
 
NASA Research Suggests Mars Once Had More Water than Earth's Arctic Ocean

A primitive ocean on Mars held more water than Earth's Arctic Ocean, 
according to NASA scientists who, using ground-based observatories, measured 
water signatures in the Red Planet's atmosphere.

Scientists have been searching for answers to why this vast water supply left 
the surface. Details of the observations and computations appear in 
Thursday's edition of Science magazine.

Our study provides a solid estimate of how much water Mars once had, by 
determining how much water was lost to space, said Geronimo Villanueva, a 
scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and 
lead author of the new paper. With this work, we can better understand the 
history of water on Mars.

Perhaps about 4.3 billion years ago, Mars would have had enough water to 
cover its entire surface in a liquid layer about 450 feet (137 meters) deep. 
More likely, the water would have formed an ocean occupying almost half of 
Mars' northern hemisphere, in some regions reaching depths greater than a 
mile (1.6 kilometers).

The new estimate is based on detailed observations made at the European 
Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile, and the W.M. Keck 
Observatory and NASA Infrared Telescope Facility in Hawaii. With these 
powerful instruments, the researchers distinguished the chemical signatures 
of two slightly different forms of water in Mars' atmosphere. One is the 
familiar H2O. The other is HDO, a naturally occurring variation in which one 
hydrogen is replaced by a heavier form, called deuterium.

By comparing the ratio of HDO to H2O in water on Mars today and comparing it 
with the ratio in water trapped in a Mars meteorite dating from about 4.5 
billion years ago, scientists can measure the subsequent atmospheric changes 
and determine how much water has escaped into space.

The team mapped H2O and HDO levels several times over nearly six years, which 
is equal to approximately three Martian years. The resulting data produced 
global snapshots of each compound, as well as their ratio. These 
first-of-their-kind maps reveal regional variations called microclimates and 
seasonal changes, even though modern Mars is essentially a desert.

The research team was especially interested in regions near Mars' north and 
south poles, because the polar ice caps hold the planet's largest known 
water reservoir. The water stored there is thought to capture the evolution 
of Mars' water during the wet Noachian period, which ended about 3.7 
billion years ago, to the present.

From the measurements of atmospheric water in the near-polar region, the 
researchers determined the enrichment, or relative amounts of the two types 
of water, in the planet's permanent ice caps. The enrichment of the ice 
caps told them how much water Mars must have lost - a volume 6.5 times 
larger than the volume in the polar caps now. That means the volume of 
Mars' early ocean must have been at least 20 million cubic kilometers (5 
million cubic miles).

Based on the surface of Mars today, a likely location for this water would be 
in the Northern Plains, considered a good candidate because of the low-lying 
ground. An ancient ocean there would have covered 19 percent of the 
planet's surface. By comparison, the Atlantic Ocean occupies 17 percent of 
Earth's surface.

With Mars losing that much water, the planet was very likely wet for a 
longer period of time than was previously thought, suggesting it might have 
been habitable for longer, said Michael Mumma, a senior scientist at 
Goddard and the second author on the paper.

NASA is studying Mars with a host of spacecraft and rovers under the 
agency's Mars Exploration Program, including the Opportunity and Curiosity 
rovers, Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft, and the MAVEN 
orbiter, which arrived at the Red Planet in September 2014 to study the 
planet's upper atmosphere.

In 2016, a Mars lander mission called InSight will launch to take a first 
look into the deep interior of Mars. The agency also is participating in 
ESA's (European Space Agency) 2016 and 2018 ExoMars missions, including 
providing telecommunication radios to ESA's 2016 orbiter and a critical 
element of the astrobiology instrument on the 2018 ExoMars rover. NASA's 
next rover, heading to Mars in 2020, will carry instruments to conduct 
unprecedented science and exploration technology investigations on the Red 
Planet.

NASA's Mars Exploration Program seeks to characterize and understand Mars 
as a dynamic system, including its present and past environment, climate 
cycles, geology and biological potential. In parallel, NASA is developing the 
human spaceflight capabilities needed for future round-trip missions to Mars 
in the 2030s.

To view a video of this finding, visit:

http://youtu.be/WH8kHncLZwM

More information about NASA's Mars programs is online at:


[meteorite-list] MRO HiRISE Images: March 4, 2015

2015-03-05 Thread Ron Baalke via Meteorite-list


MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES
March 4, 2015

o Dunes in Western Medusae Fossae Formation
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_039240_1730

  The dark dunes in the western Medusae Fossae formation 
  provide some evidence of having a local origin.

o A Possible Landing Site for the 2020 Mission: Jezero Crater   
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_039348_1985

  This is one of the trickier aspects of selecting landing sites 
  on Mars: a place to do good science but also where the risks of 
  landing are low.

o Craters Near Nilokeras Scopulus   
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_039432_2115

  Are these craters, or could these be very large pits?

o Sand Avalanches in Meroe Patera   
  http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_039955_1875

  This image was acquired as part of a series to look for sand 
  movement in Meroe Patera, not far from the active sand dunes of 
  Nili Patera. 

All of the HiRISE images are archived here:

http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/

Information about the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is 
online at http://www.nasa.gov/mro. The mission is 
managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division 
of the California Institute of Technology, for the NASA 
Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. Lockheed 
Martin Space Systems, of Denver, is the prime contractor 
and built the spacecraft. HiRISE is operated by the 
University of Arizona. Ball Aerospace and Technologies 
Corp., of Boulder, Colo., built the HiRISE instrument.

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[meteorite-list] AD - 30 % on Carbonaceous C. similar to Coolidge / 30 % on Atacamaites

2015-03-05 Thread Luc Labenne Meteorites via Meteorite-list
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Re: [meteorite-list] Edwin Thompson's----EarthUnder

2015-03-05 Thread almitt2--- via Meteorite-list

I Agree with John L. on Edwin's book!!

Edwin has certainly been a member of the meteorite community long 
before most of us and did a lot of travel in order to get specimens in 
the hands of collectors, museums and researchers.


It is great that we get to share some of these adventures with him now 
after all of these years!


If you don't have a copy, find one and join the adventure.

--AL Mitterling
Mitterling Meteorites


Quoting John Lutzon via Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com:


Hello All,

This post is Not an AD---it is only my humble opinion.

Although I have decided not to finish his new book (EarthUnder) in 
normal quick fashion but to savor it,
if you may be interested in an exciting adventure theme--his 
descriptive writing is palpable--

you are there, I can see it, feel it and taste it.

In one way, i don't want to put it down and at the same time i don't 
want it to end.


My personal kudo's to ET.

John
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Re: [meteorite-list] Edwin Thompson's----EarthUnder

2015-03-05 Thread Greg Hupé via Meteorite-list
Thank you all who have mentioned ET's new book. I bought two copies from 
him; one hardback that he personalized for me and then a separate signed 
paperback copy to serve as my reader that I can dog-ear and 'use'.


I look forward to diving into ET's adventures!

Best Regards,
Greg


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-Original Message- 
From: almitt2--- via Meteorite-list

Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 4:05 AM
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Edwin Thompson'sEarthUnder

I Agree with John L. on Edwin's book!!

Edwin has certainly been a member of the meteorite community long
before most of us and did a lot of travel in order to get specimens in
the hands of collectors, museums and researchers.

It is great that we get to share some of these adventures with him now
after all of these years!

If you don't have a copy, find one and join the adventure.

--AL Mitterling
Mitterling Meteorites


Quoting John Lutzon via Meteorite-list 
meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com:



Hello All,

This post is Not an AD---it is only my humble opinion.

Although I have decided not to finish his new book (EarthUnder) in normal 
quick fashion but to savor it,
if you may be interested in an exciting adventure theme--his descriptive 
writing is palpable--

you are there, I can see it, feel it and taste it.

In one way, i don't want to put it down and at the same time i don't want 
it to end.


My personal kudo's to ET.

John
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Re: [meteorite-list] Edwin Thompson's----EarthUnder

2015-03-05 Thread Galactic Stone Ironworks via Meteorite-list
Hi Folks,

I missed the original announcement.  Is this book fiction or
non-fiction?  I would love to read about Edwin's early adventures in
the Sahara and how it helped bring about the Saharan Gold Rush.

Best regards,

MikeG



On 3/5/15, Greg Hupé meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com wrote:
 Thank you all who have mentioned ET's new book. I bought two copies from
 him; one hardback that he personalized for me and then a separate signed
 paperback copy to serve as my reader that I can dog-ear and 'use'.

 I look forward to diving into ET's adventures!

 Best Regards,
 Greg

 
 Greg Hupé
 The Hupé Collection
 gmh...@centurylink.net
 www.NaturesVault.net (Online Catalog  Reference Site)
 www.LunarRock.com (Online Planetary Meteorite Site)
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 http://www.facebook.com/NaturesVault
 http://pinterest.com/NaturesVault
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 -Original Message-
 From: almitt2--- via Meteorite-list
 Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 4:05 AM
 To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
 Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Edwin Thompson'sEarthUnder

 I Agree with John L. on Edwin's book!!

 Edwin has certainly been a member of the meteorite community long
 before most of us and did a lot of travel in order to get specimens in
 the hands of collectors, museums and researchers.

 It is great that we get to share some of these adventures with him now
 after all of these years!

 If you don't have a copy, find one and join the adventure.

 --AL Mitterling
 Mitterling Meteorites


 Quoting John Lutzon via Meteorite-list
 meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com:

 Hello All,

 This post is Not an AD---it is only my humble opinion.

 Although I have decided not to finish his new book (EarthUnder) in normal

 quick fashion but to savor it,
 if you may be interested in an exciting adventure theme--his descriptive
 writing is palpable--
 you are there, I can see it, feel it and taste it.

 In one way, i don't want to put it down and at the same time i don't want

 it to end.

 My personal kudo's to ET.

 John
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Re: [meteorite-list] Edwin Thompson's----EarthUnder

2015-03-05 Thread Paul Harris via Meteorite-list

Hello everyone,

You can watch the book trailer here https://vimeo.com/116788466

Paul


On 3/5/2015 9:18 AM, Galactic Stone  Ironworks via Meteorite-list wrote:

Hi Folks,

I missed the original announcement.  Is this book fiction or
non-fiction?  I would love to read about Edwin's early adventures in
the Sahara and how it helped bring about the Saharan Gold Rush.

Best regards,

MikeG



On 3/5/15, Greg Hupé meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com wrote:

Thank you all who have mentioned ET's new book. I bought two copies from
him; one hardback that he personalized for me and then a separate signed
paperback copy to serve as my reader that I can dog-ear and 'use'.

I look forward to diving into ET's adventures!

Best Regards,
Greg


Greg Hupé
The Hupé Collection
gmh...@centurylink.net
www.NaturesVault.net (Online Catalog  Reference Site)
www.LunarRock.com (Online Planetary Meteorite Site)
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From: almitt2--- via Meteorite-list
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 4:05 AM
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Edwin Thompson'sEarthUnder

I Agree with John L. on Edwin's book!!

Edwin has certainly been a member of the meteorite community long
before most of us and did a lot of travel in order to get specimens in
the hands of collectors, museums and researchers.

It is great that we get to share some of these adventures with him now
after all of these years!

If you don't have a copy, find one and join the adventure.

--AL Mitterling
Mitterling Meteorites


Quoting John Lutzon via Meteorite-list
meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com:


Hello All,

This post is Not an AD---it is only my humble opinion.

Although I have decided not to finish his new book (EarthUnder) in normal

quick fashion but to savor it,
if you may be interested in an exciting adventure theme--his descriptive
writing is palpable--
you are there, I can see it, feel it and taste it.

In one way, i don't want to put it down and at the same time i don't want

it to end.

My personal kudo's to ET.

John
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[meteorite-list] Meteorite Picture of the Day

2015-03-05 Thread Paul Swartz via Meteorite-list
Today's Meteorite Picture of the Day: Canyon Diablo

Contributed by: Anne Black

http://www.tucsonmeteorites.com/mpodmain.asp?DD=03/06/2015
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[meteorite-list] AD: L'Aigle, Esquel, Agoudals, Thin Sections, hungarian meteorite

2015-03-05 Thread cbo via Meteorite-list
Dear Listers!

Ending soon in weekend on my E-Bay some meteorite auctions.


HISTORIC L'AIGLE L6 chondrite, fall 1803, FRANCE partslice 0.39 gr for
199USD

ESQUEL pallasite 3.29 gr for 99 USD - REDUCED, on EBay or contact me in PM

Agoudals IIAB, Individuals from 11USD

Nice and BIG unclassified 1370.1 gr probale H chondrite 699USD or Best Offer
- PRICE REDUCED


PRICE REDUCED Thin Sections - rare classes and pieces - Very cheap!

JAH 054, Achondrite, Ureilite - BEAUTIFUL - 65USD
NWA 8615 Achondrite, HED, Howardite - BIG - 65US
NWA 4473 Achondrite, HED, Diogenite - 49USD
NWA 3118 CV3 Carbon. Chondrite - 39USD
KORRA KORABES, Chondrite H3, Awsome chondrulas - 25USD
NWA XXX - Prob. Chondrite L, BIG and BEAUTIFUL  - 25USD

AZUARA, IM breccia impactite - rare, SPAIN - 17 USD

Meteorite Collector Box Holders for 39 USD/2 holder
Meteorit Crater Stock (copy) framed 25USD
IPhone5/5S case with pallasite theme, slice holders (custom design)


Available the new OFFICIAL CSÁTALJA H4 S2 W2 chondrite from 2012. There is
9th Hungarian meteorite.

Very limited quantity! See here and contact me directly in PM:
http://meteorites.eurodome.hu/csatalja.html


See them here:
http://www.ebay.com/usr/cbo891

Zsolt Kereszty
IMCA#6251

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[meteorite-list] Ceres and Meteorites?

2015-03-05 Thread Galactic Stone Ironworks via Meteorite-list
Hi List,

Has Ceres ever been connected to any type of meteorite?

Best regards,

MikeG

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