, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Space Science, University of Birmingham
A recent study claims to have found evidence for mushroom-like life forms on the surface of Mars. As it happens, these particular features are well known and were discovered by cameras aboard NASA s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, shortly after it landed in 2004.
They are not, in fact, living organisms at all, but hematite concretions small sphere-shaped pieces of the mineral hematite, and their exact origin is still debated by scientists. Hematite is a compound of iron and oxygen and is commercially important on Earth. The spherical rocks on Mars may have been created by the gradual accumulation of the material in slowly evaporating liquid water environments. They could also have been produced by volcanic activity.
Determined reader wins bike, helmet
ASHLEY SLOBODA | The Journal Gazette
Lynn Flick wasn t surprised one of her Glenwood Park Elementary School students earned the top prize in a statewide reading competition for third graders.
Kapmuan Sang was determined to get the bicycle and helmet given to top readers, she said.
“He was so far ahead of everybody,” Flick said.
As Kapmuan paged his way through books including the “Dog Man” and “Zeke Meeks” series, he tracked his progress in Read to the Final Four through a digital literacy platform powered by Renaissance myON. He logged more than 355 hours of reading during the months-long competition.
April 12, 2021
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama, April 12 (TNSOps) The University of Alabama issued the following news:
Two teams from a senior design moon buggy class at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, are competing in a pandemic modified version of NASA s Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC).
In January, MAE 490/1-05 Senior Design Moon Buggy class teams Twisted Metal and Falcon presented a design review to a NASA panel consisting . . .
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