Joe ✅ · @biffnix
332 followers · 101 posts · Server mountains.social

This article was published in Nature magazine, and highlights breakthrough research that uses the fibers in the Digital 395 project (California Broadband Cooperative) to detect, measure and report in real time, earthquakes anywhere along its 600-mile length from Barstow, CA to Reno, NV. It’s a remarkable innovation that was spearheaded by scientists at Caltech, who asked the head of CBC, Michael Ort, if they could use dark fibers for their experiments after the Ridgecrest earthquake a few years back.

Here’s the link to the published article in Nature:

nature.com/articles/s41586-023

#owensvalley #bishopcalifornia #bishop #sierranevada #digital395 #nature #naturemagazine #caltech

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MPI for Biogeochemistry · @MPI_BGC
408 followers · 42 posts · Server wisskomm.social

Greetings from California! 🇺🇸
PhD student Alice Orme is spending her research stay at the Geological and Planetary Sciences division of . She's hosted by John Eiler & Alex Sessions to learn how to analyze position-specific using 👩‍🔬.

#imprs #caltech #isotopes #orbitrap #imprsabroad

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Gabriele Bozzola · @gabrielebozzola
130 followers · 120 posts · Server fosstodon.org

This is the bike infrastructure in , home of and , city with perfect weather year-round.

#pasadena #caltech #nasa #jpl

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Paul Hammond · @PaulHammond51
364 followers · 845 posts · Server fosstodon.org

A nice drive of ~44 meters for Curiosity on Sol 3880 brings the rover a little closer to a cluster of impact craters. Post drive images, a map and the drive data is attached.

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

#curiosityrover #msl #marsrover #mars #nasa #space #science #jpl #caltech #map #data

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Paul Hammond · @PaulHammond51
359 followers · 831 posts · Server fosstodon.org

Two images of one of Curiosity Rover's wheels acquired 13 months apart. These show that the wheel wear has slowed dramatically.

#curiosityrover #marsrover #mars #nasa #space #science #jpl #caltech #wheels #keeptrucking

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SciPost Physics · @physics
551 followers · 240 posts · Server scipost.social

New publication

Loops in 4+1d topological phases

Xie Chen, Arpit Dua, Po-Shen Hsin, Chao-Ming Jian, Wilbur Shirley, Cenke Xu
SciPost Phys. 15, 001 (2023)
scipost.org/SciPostPhys.15.1.0



.BhaumikInstituteforTheoreticalPhysics


#openaccess #SciPost #physics #caltech #WalterBurkeInstituteforTheoreticalPhysics #Mani_L #cu #IAS #UCSB #NSF #SimonsFoundation #doe

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SCIFI.radio · @scifi4wifi
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Paul Hammond · @PaulHammond51
353 followers · 813 posts · Server fosstodon.org

No holiday for Perseverance Rover in Jezero crater

Drive on Sol 843 to site 41/0, July 4th 2023.

Looks like they're setting up for a little contact science (L-NavCam)

Mars2020

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

#perseverancerover #SamplingMars #marsrover #mars #nasa #space #science #jpl #caltech

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Paul Hammond · @PaulHammond51
353 followers · 813 posts · Server fosstodon.org

Six Years ago Curiosity Mars Rover checked its wheels. Here's one of the hand-lens images, it just happened to capture the Murray Buttes in the background. The rover is scheduled to have another wheel check soon.

Image processed, rotated and cropped.

Image credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

#curiosityrover #marsrover #mars #nasa #space #science #jpl #caltech #wheels #driving

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Spaceflight 🚀 · @spaceflight
1435 followers · 1190 posts · Server techhub.social

📆 2021 In 📆 1992, two 🔭 discovered the . In 📆 2016, two professors of at proposed a massive 🪐, between five and 10 times the size of Earth 🌏. bbc.com/future/article/2021021

"At the moment the only game in town for finding is the Subaru Telescope 🔭" 🗺️ graphhopper.com/maps/?point=Su

The Vera Rubin 🔭 will start searching for long period ☄️ coming from the when it is completed 📆 2023. bbc.com/future/article/2021061 🗺️ graphhopper.com/maps/?point=Ve

up to 230 miles wide, traveling 1 per year passing by in 📆 2031 “ ☄️are like , you never know what they’re going to do.” smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/

Pictures : :cc_zero: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil, Halley's :ccby: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil

#bbc #astronomers #kuiperbelt #planetaryscience #caltech #planet #planetnine #observatory #comets #oortcloud #Comet #au #cats

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Paul Hammond · @PaulHammond51
340 followers · 788 posts · Server fosstodon.org

Up! Up! And Finally... Over! Curiosity Rover mission update for Sols 3873-3875. Written by Catherine O'Connell-Cooper, Planetary Geologist at University of New Brunswick

link: mars.nasa.gov/msl/mission-upda

#curiosityrover #marsrover #mars #nasa #space #science #jpl #caltech

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SCIFI.radio · @scifi4wifi
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Hari Tulsidas :verified: · @haritulsidas
117 followers · 923 posts · Server masto.ai

Space solar power could be the future of renewable energy. It involves capturing sunlight in orbit and beaming it down to Earth. A new test by Caltech has achieved a record-breaking efficiency of 85%.

newatlas.com/energy/space-sola

#spacesolarpower #renewableenergy #caltech

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Kevin Archie · @karchie
117 followers · 422 posts · Server freeradical.zone

Guy found and resurrected an HP 9836C youtu.be/vCU4xbHFb58 ; the undergrad CS lab through the end of the 80’s was a dozen or so of these “chipmunks” running deeply customized software. Other labs for higher level classes used them for home-built VLSI (and analog VLSI!) packages for even longer. Deeply funky system, still kinda wish I had the scroll wheel, where I learned to program in Pascal and I will love this machine forever.

#caltech #retrocomputing

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Richard J. Bartlett · @astronomywriter
538 followers · 1009 posts · Server astrodon.social

Curiosity Rover Captures Martian Morning, Afternoon in New "Postcard"

jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-curios

Search over 1,500 astronomy and space news releases at www.stars-n-stuff.com/news-stories

Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

#astronomy #space #science #news #stargazing #nasa #mars #jpl #caltech

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Paul Hammond · @PaulHammond51
333 followers · 741 posts · Server fosstodon.org
NiftyLinks · @NiftyLinks
33 followers · 1060 posts · Server federated.press
Ansgar Schmidt :verified: · @Ansi
509 followers · 1594 posts · Server mastodon.cloud
Paul Hammond · @PaulHammond51
333 followers · 733 posts · Server fosstodon.org

Mars Is Hard:

Mars Guy - Episode 114:

Sending a rover to Mars to do geologic fieldwork inevitably leads to frustration. Collecting a rock sample is one of the simplest things a geologist does on Earth. But a second attempt last week shows how hard it is to do on Mars.
youtube.com/watch?v=ZPL_k-VOkO

#perseverancerover #SamplingMars #marsrover #mars #nasa #space #science #jpl #caltech #marssamplereturn

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Sapere Aude · @textbook
389 followers · 37695 posts · Server social.tchncs.de