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Phoenix Mars Lander Works Through the Night
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 22, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- To coordinate with observations made by an orbiter flying repeatedly overhead, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is working a schedule Monday that includes staying awake all night for the first time. ...
Spiky Probe on NASA Mars Lander Raises Vapor Quandary
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 05, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A fork-like conductivity probe has sensed humidity rising and falling beside NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, but when stuck into the ground, its measurements so far indicate soil that is thoroughly ...
Researchers peer into nanowires to measure dopant properties
Apr 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Semiconductor nanowires -- tiny wires with a diameter as small as a few billionths of a meter — hold promise for devices of the future, both in technology like light-emitting diodes and in ...
Shear Ingenuity: Tweaking the Conductivity of Nanotube Composites
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 06, 2008 |
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One of the immediate applications of carbon nanotubes (CNT) is as an additive to polymers to create electrically conducting plastics—a relatively low CNT concentration can dramatically change the polymer‘s ...
Baked Slug: New Method to Test Fireproofing Material
Oct 02, 2008 |
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In a high-temperature blaze, how well does a fireproofing material shield a building’s important steel structures from heat? Answering this question has been surprisingly difficult, but it is important information ...
Looking for water on Mars
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 28, 2008 |
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NASA's Phoenix Scout Lander reached Mars on May 25,, opened a soils lab, and started looking for water. Phoenix uses a robotic scoop arm to deliver regolith samples to the suite of instruments aboard the Lander--with one ...
Graphene Takes the Heat
Feb 20, 2008 |
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Carbon nanotubes are being touted by many scientists and engineers as the material of the future, with the potential to revolutionize electronic technologies. But a new study shows that nanotubes may not be ...
Water in Earth's mantle may be associated with subduction
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 19, 2009 |
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A team of scientists from Oregon State University has created the first global three-dimensional map of electrical conductivity in the Earth's mantle and their model suggests that that enhanced conductivity ...
Phoenix Mars Lander Explores Site by Trenching
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 21, 2008 |
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander scientists and engineers are continuing to dig into the area around the lander with the spacecraft's robotic arm, looking for new materials to analyze and examining the soil and ice subsurface structure.
Soil Studies Continue at Site of Phoenix Mars Lander
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 11, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has continued studies of its landing site by widening a trench, making overnight measurements of conductivity in the Martian soil and depositing a sample of surface ...
Window display
Apr 14, 2009 |
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Just one click and the window turns into a display. At the Hannover Messe from April 20 to 24, Fraunhofer research scientists will be demonstrating light-permeable conductive coatings as the basis for transparent displays. ...
Researchers analyze material with 'colossal ionic conductivity'
Jul 31, 2008 |
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A new material characterized at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory could open a pathway toward more efficient fuel cells.
New knowledge about thermoelectric materials could give better energy efficiency
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 07, 2008 |
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Thermoelectric materials can be assembled into units, which can transform the thermal difference to electrical energy or vice versa – electrical current to cooling. An effective utilization requires however that the material ...
Transparent solar cells
Jun 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If solar cells were transparent they could be fitted to windows and building facades. Physical modeling helps in the development of suitable materials for transparent electronics and thus ...
Phoenix Mars Lander Extending Trench
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 15, 2008 |
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is using its Robotic Arm to enlarge an exposure of hard subsurface material expected to yield a sample of ice-rich soil for analysis in one of the lander's ovens.
