Lebaran, "Flexing Muscles" Curiosity

NASA photographs taken first robot Curiosity. Photo at the left shows the shadow of Curiosity while the right part shows Curiosity with one wheel.

CALIFORNIA, KOMPAS.com -Robot Curiosity sent United States Space Agency NASA flight and to investigate Mars "stretched their muscles" on the second day of Idul Fitri, Monday (8/8/2012).

"Muscle Stretch" this is the first release since the Curiosity is experienced in November 2011. Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is responsible in this process.

Of course, stretching the muscles here meaningless literally cause Curiosity had no muscle. Because your arms stretch called Curiosity, then bent opened expanded again, similar human muscle stretching before exercise.

Step stretch was done by NASA to conduct a test and calibrate the arms along the 2.13 meters following pengebor equipment, shovels, spectrometer and camera.

As the AP reported, on Tuesday (9/8/2012), stretch it is "health tests" that traveled since landing on Mars Curiosity on August 5, 2012.

The equipment is checked this time is useful for retrieving a collection of Mars soil. The taking is done to find out if the potential habitat for meruupakan Mars microbes.

Curiosity itself undertake missions that quite a lot. One of them is also investigating the possibility of astronauts to land on Mars.

Found a spider "Legged Knife" in the u.s.

BBC Indonesia this spider was given the nickname Trogloraptor, as it had claws like a penknife.

A number of scientists in the United States found a new type of spider in some cave in the region of California and Oregon, USA.

The spider can reach 7 centimetres in length was named Trogloraptor because it has claws like a penknife in his legs that are used to trap its prey.

According to researchers, this spider has a unique form of evolution that is not solely represent a new genus or species, but also a new family of spiders.

Curator of Arachnology at the California Academy of Sciences, Charles Griswold, told the Today show presenter, Sarah Montague, that the invention was a "historic event".

In the journal ZooKeys, researchers revealed that Spider claw becomes a clue that this animal was a predator that is malignant.

Nevertheless, scientists have yet to discover this pet food as well as how they attack and kill prey.

The Mission Will Investigate The Geology Of Mars Insight

NASA illustration of that Insight robot will investigate the geology of Mars.

WASHINGTON, KOMPAS.com -aviation and space agency of the United States decided to send NASA'S low-cost robots to investigate the Martian core. A Robot named Insight it will designed the longest two years and will be delivered in 2016.

Insight will be provided two main instruments, namely the seismometer that was developed in France and a thermometer as well as pengebor developed Germany. In the interim, to go to Mars and perform its mission, Insight-didayai solar power.

As the AP reported, Friday (20/8/2012), so there are still plenty of Insight delivered the mystery that is stored by the core of Mars. Core Mars has no magnetic field and it is unclear whether a solid or liquid. Another mystery is whether there is a earthquake on Mars.

John Grunsfeld from NASA was quoted as saying, "This Reuters reveals something that caught my attention among scientists for years. Seismology is the standard method for understanding the Earth's interior and we haven't had any knowledge about that on Mars. "

As a low-cost robots, as Curiosity which Insight will land on Mars in August 5, 2012. However, Insight has its advantages. This Robot is capable of drilling as deep as 9.14 meters. With the equipment, Insight will measure temperature, earthquake history and composition of the Martian core.

Insight-cost 425 million US dollars. The Mission of Insight will run by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory who also handled the Mission of Curiosity. Beat mission another Insight presented, namely methane investigation missions in liquid, moons of Saturn, Titan, as well as robots that will investigate the changing sunlight in a comet.

Curiosity Rocks on Mars with Firing Laser

NASA Image from NASA showing the Crater on Mars that was Gale landing rover Curiosity. The image was taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

PASADENA, KOMPAS.com — NASA Lander Spacecraft, rover Curiosity, for the first time directing the shooters lasernya into a rock on Mars. The six-wheeled robots that shoot for the purposes of research and science.

When performing a test target on Monday when Indonesia, fired 30 waves on the Curiosity of a nearby stone in the span of 10 seconds, and make a small hole.

A single shot of Chemical instruments and laser Camera Curiosity, or ChemCam, lasted five per one billion seconds, but consisting of more than one million Watts, enough to change the solid rock into liquid plasma ionized.

The three spectrometer in the later study of sparks shot a laser at 6,151 different wavelength of ultraviolet rays, infrared rays, visible, and to determine the composition of the stone has evaporated because of the gunfire.

According to NASA, the preliminary results of this experiment showed the instruments work well. Data from tests show, it even shows performance ChemCam is better than when conducted trials on Earth.

Since landing in Gale Crater last week two, Curiosity has tried a variety of the instrument, including laser. During the two-year mission, will fire the laser to the Curiosity of various rocks along its journey to Mount Sharp mount as high as 4.8 kilometers from the crater floor.

The purpose of his mission was to find out whether the Martian environment was ever allowed to live in.

In a few days ahead, controllers on Earth will be ordered to move the wheel and Curiosity to try short trips first.

The mission will cost an estimated 2.5 billion US dollars is the most expensive project Mars so far.

Spider-legged Blade turns out to new families

Brent McGregor researchers found similar hooks or claws on the legs, folding knife allegedly used to catch flying insects.

A group of cave explorers and scientists reported finding a new kind of spiders in caves in Southern Oregon, United States. However, the more special from these findings, the spider was not simply a new species, but also the type that do not belong to the family of spiders known. That is, this type of family (family) is completely new.

There are only two other spider family discovered since 1990 from around 111 spider families are known. And, this is the first found in North America since 1890, said researcher Charles Griswold of the California Academy of Sciences.

So far, the family of spiders that is found only consists of one species, which are given by researchers named Trogloraptor marchingtoni. Her last name is taken from Neil, a member of Marchington Western Cave Conservancy, who first discovered the spiders. While the genus name, Trogloraptor, means "robber or predators of the cave."

This name is considered appropriate because researchers found similar hooks or claws on the legs, folding knife allegedly used to catch flying insects. With legs terlentang, this spider can reach a length of up to 8 cm.

"When you're in a dark cave, and there's only ray of light in your head, they would appear to be much larger. Sometimes we were surprised to see them suspended with jaringnya, "Griswold said.

Griswold and his colleagues suspect that the spider webs hang with a simple life, and waiting for prey to pass to diterkam with bercakarnya feet. However, specimens preserved in the lab has not been willing to eat. "It seems they are very shy," says Griswold.

These spiders have poisonous glands as well, although there is no evidence that it is harmful to humans.

Griswold said, this discovery could help explain the existence of the legend about giant spiders that live in caves in the area. There are other species which allegedly has not been found, bearing in mind the many caves in the Western United States is a little new to learn.

From the side of science, the discovery of a new family as it became a historic moment. "For researchers or spider this discovery as found arachnologists dinosaur new types in the field of paleontology," said a spider expert, Norman Platnick, of the American Museum of natural history.

Another unusual thing about these spiders is that it has two rows of teeth or serrula. "I've never seen any other spider with such serrula," said Platnick.

When first discovered, this spider brown recluse, thought to be the name of a type of poisonous spiders. However, a more detailed inspection reveals that these findings are unique and, after two years of research, determined that this is a new kind of family. The research results were published on August 17, 2012 in the journal ZooKeys.

NASA Will Send A Probe To Mars Core Researcher

Andrew Bodrov Panorama of Mars that developed from a photo of Andrew Bodrov submitted by Curiosity.

WASHINGTON, KOMPAS.com — NASA apparently was not satisfied simply examine the surface of Mars. Aviation and space agency of the United States that would like to see further into the heart of the red planet.

NASA on Monday (8/8/2012) decided to launch a robotic Lander is relatively inexpensive in 2016 in order to find out what makes the core of the red planet is so different.

The mission called Insight includes two instruments that will examine the geology of Mars in depth and will explore the Martian core size, composition, temperature, and more.

So far, the inside of Mars is still a mystery. The core of Mars is never an has a magnetic field, and researchers are unsure whether it is never an core solid or liquid, or have the dynamics as the core of the Earth.

This mission will be run by NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab.

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