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NASA announced Saturday the opening of registration for its Mars Balance Mass Challenge and the launch of its new website, NASA Solve, at the World Maker Faire in New York.
"NASA is committed to engaging the public, and specifically the maker community through innovative activities like the Mars Balance Mass Challenge," said NASA Chief Technologist David Miller. "And NASA Solve is a great way for members of the public, makers and other citizen scientists to see all NASA challenges and prizes in one location."
The Mars Balance Mass Challenge seeks design ideas for small science and technology payloads that could potentially provide dual purpose as ejectable balance masses on spacecraft entering the Martian atmosphere.
The payloads will serve two roles: perform scientific or technology functions that help us learn more about the Red Planet, and provide the necessary weight to balance planetary landers.
Submissions are due by Nov. 21. A winner will be announced in mid-January 2015 and receive an award of $20,000.
"We want people to get involved in our journey to Mars," said Lisa May, lead program executive for NASA's Mars exploration program. "This challenge is a creative way to bring innovative ideas into our planning process, and perhaps help NASA find another way to pack more science and technology into a mission."
Launched on Nov. 18, 2013, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, MAVEN is the first spacecraft dedicated to exploring the upper atmosphere of Mars. It is another NASA robotic scientific explorer paving the way for the journey to Mars.
The Mars Balance Mass challenge is managed by NASA's Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI). CoECI was established in coordination with White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to advance NASA open innovation efforts and extend that expertise to other federal agencies. The challenges are being released on the NASA Innovation Pavilion, one of the CoECI platforms available to NASA team members, through its contract with InnoCentive, Inc.
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has collected its first taste of the layered mountain whose scientific allure drew the mission to choose this part of Mars as a landing site.
Late Wednesday, Sept. 24, the rover's hammering drill chewed about 2.6 inches deep into a basal-layer outcrop on Mount Sharp and collected a powdered-rock sample. Data and images received early Thursday at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA confirmed success of this operation. The powder collected by the drilling is temporarily held within the sample-handling mechanism on the rover's arm. "This drilling target is at the lowest part of the base layer of the mountain, and from here we plan to examine the higher, younger layers exposed in the nearby hills," said Curiosity Deputy Project Scientist Ashwin Vasavada of JPL. "This first look at rocks we believe to underlie Mount Sharp is exciting because it will begin to form a picture of the environment at the time the mountain formed, and what led to its growth."
After landing on Mars in August 2012 but before beginning the drive toward Mount Sharp, Curiosity spent much of the mission's first year productively studying an area much closer to the landing site, but in the opposite direction. The mission accomplished its science goals in that Yellowknife Bay area. Analysis of drilled rocks there disclosed an ancient lakebed environment that, more than three billion years ago, offered ingredients and a chemical energy gradient favorable for microbes, if any existed there.
From Yellowknife Bay to the base of Mount Sharp, Curiosity drove more than 5 miles in about 15 months, with pauses at a few science waypoints. The emphasis in mission operations has now changed from drive, drive, drive to systematic layer-by-layer investigation. "We're putting on the brakes to study this amazing mountain," said Curiosity Deputy Project Manager Jennifer Trosper of JPL. "Curiosity flew hundreds of millions of miles to do this."
Curiosity arrived Sept. 19 at an outcrop called "Pahrump Hills," which is a section of the mountain's basal geological unit, called the Murray formation. Three days later, the rover completed a "mini-drill" procedure at the selected drilling target, "Confidence Hills," to assess the target rock's suitability for drilling. A mini-drill activity last month determined that a rock slab under consideration then was not stable enough for full drilling, but Confidence Hills passed this test.
The rock is softer than any of the previous three targets where Curiosity has collected a drilled sample for analysis.
Between the mini-drill test and the sample-collection drilling, researchers used tools on Curiosity's mast and robotic arm for close-up inspection of geometrically distinctive features on the nearby surface of the rock.
These features on the Murray formation mudstones are the accumulations of resistant materials. They occur both as discrete clusters and as dendrites, where forms are arranged in tree-like branching. By investigating the shapes and chemical ingredients in these features, the team hopes to gain information about the possible composition of fluids at this Martian location long ago.
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In a display of interstellar teamwork, NASAs Hubble, Spitzer and Kepler space telescopes have discovered clear skies and water vapor in the atmosphere of a Neptune-sized planet orbiting a star 120 light years from Earth. According to the space agency, this may not only provide insights into the formation of giant exoplanets, but also act as a new tool for detecting water on Earth-like planets orbiting other stars.
Astronomers like clear skies on Earth, because it makes it easier to look out of the atmosphere. They also like clear skies on other planets because it allows them to look in. Otherwise, they just end up looking at a load of cloud tops. In a very distant example of a nice day, astronomer found clear skies on HAT-P-11b; an exo-Neptune planet that orbits the orange dwarf star HAT-P-11 once every five days.
Located 120 light years distant in the constellation of Cygnus, HAT-P-11b is a hot world with a rocky core and gaseous atmosphere. According to NASA, this is the smallest planet on which any sort of molecules have been detected. Previously, molecules, including water vapor, have been detected in the atmospheres of Jupiter and super-Jupiter sized planets because of their size and less dense atmospheres. But HAT-P-11b is the smallest planet yet where water has been detected nothing of its size has been within the range of current technology until now.
Artist's concept comparing the atmosphere of exoplanet HAT-P-11b (right) and how other exoplanets seen until now may look (left) (Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
The technique used for peeking through the atmosphere is called transmission spectroscopy. This involves studying the light from the planets star as it passes through the planets atmosphere. Obviously, if that atmosphere is laden with clouds, the light wont go through. Fortunately, HAT-P-11bs atmosphere has clear skies in at least the higher altitudes. This clearness was demonstrated by the fact that the Hubble could detect the starlight.
Using the Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, the team took spectroscope readings of the light passing through the planets atmosphere and compared it to that of the star. The differences would indicate the presence and nature of any molecules in the air around HAT-P-11b.
According to NASA, the team did detect water vapor, but water can be found in regions of cooler stars called starspots, which are analogous to sunspots. To eliminate the possibility that all they were seeing was water on HAT-P-11, the team used data from the Kepler and Spitzer telescopes. Since they can see in the infrared, they could determine the temperature of the star and concluded that any starspots present would be too hot for water, which would break down into its constituent atoms at too high a temperature.
NASA says that HAT-P-11b has an atmosphere of water vapor, hydrogen, and other gases yet to be determined, and that the data will be helpful in learning more about the diversity of giant exoplanets and their formation. NASA plans to continue working to detect clear skies and water vapor on smaller and smaller planets with the goal of ultimately finding water on an Earth-like exoplanet using the James Webb telescope, which launches in 2018.
"The work we are doing now is important for future studies of super-Earths and even smaller planets, because we want to be able to pick out in advance the planets with clear atmospheres that will let us detect molecules," says Heather Knutson of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
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As other passengers began to cry and pray, Welch strapped on his oxygen mask and pondered his fate.
"I understood that I might be going to meet God," Welch, 34, recalled. He thought, "If this is my time, this is my time."
Faced with his own mortality, he could have closed his eyes in quiet reflection. Instead, Welch, a sports photographer, responded in a distinctly 2014 manner: He reached for his Samsung Galaxy Note 3 smartphone, thrust it into the murky air and pressed the "record" button. He even found the presence of mind to record a smiling selfie.
Never mind that the plane landed safely soon after, making the mechanical failure a relative nonevent. The pulse-quickening, you-are-there footage captured by Welch and other passengers helped propel the story to national news. Welch's two brief videos, meanwhile, went viral; one attracted more than 1 million views.
It is no longer enough to record seemingly every last moment of life with your smartphone, it seems. Near-death is fair game, too.
Thanks to the Personal Video Industrial Complex - tens of millions of video-enabled smartphones, feeding countless hours daily to video-sharing behemoths - rock concerts, presidential inaugurations, fourth-grade school plays and even midair near-disasters can all be considered "content" now, inspiring us all to tap our inner Edward R. Murrow and record the event for posterity.
But even as public gatherings, from the world-historical to the intimate, evolve into a sea of glowing blue screens, a backlash has started to take root. An improbable assortment of critics - mindfulness gurus, twee indie rockers, even, seemingly, Pope Francis - have started to implore these armchair videographers to drop their phones and actually start living again.
To live the moment or record the moment? It's become a defining dilemma of the iPhone age.
"Is it more important that we actually live these experiences than obsessively record and upload them to the cloud?" asked William Powers, a research scientist at the MIT Media Lab and author of "Hamlet's BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age." "Absolutely. Will most people therefore learn to be more in-the-moment and swear off excessive pictures and videos? I doubt it."
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Today SelectAccount, a leading provider of health savings accounts, introduced its new e-Vault. A powerful electronic document management system where health care receipts can be uploaded, stored and organized all in one place. But the e-Vault goes beyond a simple storage system. It delivers peace of mind as account holders build their medical savings balance to cover future health care expenses. Users can easily track unreimbursed expenditures and know the amount available for tax-free withdrawal at a later date.
The e-Vault eliminates fading receipts tucked into desk drawers, file cabinets or shoe boxes and organizes them so they can be located easily in the future. Account holders can quickly sort by date, tax year, name or amount, according to Nicole Stretar, SelectAccount Vice President of Product Development and Information Technology. Whats even more exciting is account holders can track the dollar value of unreimbursed medical, dental and vision receipts that they have chosen to pay for out of pocket while they are working and then withdraw tax-free in retirement.
In addition to the option to store receipts, account holders can easily upload receipts to submit a new claim or to match with a previous paid claim. Simply take a photo with a smart phone or upload a scanned document from a computer, enter some prompted information to help store and process the document and hit submit. The e-Vault will display the uploaded documents, the action taken or action available to take in the future. Users can upload as many documents as they like and safely store them for as long as needed.
About SelectAccount
SelectAccount has been driving innovation in medical savings administration for over 25 years. They offer a full suite of tax-advantaged solutions - HSA, HRA, FSA, VEBA, transportation and dependent care accounts to meet clients changing needs as they plan for their health care expenditures. They are one of the leading medical savings administrators in the country managing more than half a billion dollars in consumer medical account savings assets integrated with numerous partner data exchange connections, serving 7,000 employers with account holders in all 50 states. MII Life, Inc., d.b.a. SelectAccount has been approved by the U.S. Department of Treasury as a non-bank HSA Trustee. SelectAccount is headquartered in Eagan, Minnesota with an office located in Chicago, Illinois. Visit http://www.SelectAccount.com to learn more.
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'Now I'm the 'JetBlue selfie guy': Scott Welch's selfie went viral on YouTube. Photo: YouTube
JetBlue Flight 1416 was just minutes into its trip from Long Beach, California, to Austin, Texas, on September 18 when Scott Welch, a passenger in Seat 5A, heard a suspicious pop. Moments later, smoke began to fill the cabin, clogging the air to the point that he could see only a few rows in front of him, he said. The starboard engine of the Airbus A320, he soon learned, had blown.
As other passengers began to cry and pray, Welch strapped on his oxygen mask and pondered his fate.
"I understood that I might be going to meet God," Welch, 34, recalled. He thought, "If this is my time, this is my time."
When his plane cabin filled with smoke, Scott Welch quickly pulled out his phone. Photo: YouTube
Faced with his own mortality, he could have closed his eyes in quiet reflection. Instead, Welch, a sports photographer, responded in a distinctly 2014 manner: He reached for his Samsung Galaxy Note 3 smartphone, thrust it into the murky air and pressed the "record" button. He even found the presence of mind to record a smiling selfie.
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Never mind that the plane landed safely soon after, making the mechanical failure a relative nonevent. The pulse-quickening, you-are-there footage captured by Welch and other passengers helped propel the story to national news. Welch's two brief videos, meanwhile, went viral; one attracted more than 1 million views.
It is no longer enough to record seemingly every last moment of life with your smartphone, it seems. Near-death is fair game, too.
Thanks to the Personal Video Industrial Complex - tens of millions of video-enabled smartphones, feeding countless hours daily to video-sharing behemoths - rock concerts, presidential inaugurations, fourth-grade school plays and even midair near-disasters can all be considered "content" now, inspiring us all to tap our inner Edward R. Murrow and record the event for posterity.
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'Now I'm the 'JetBlue selfie guy': Scott Welch's selfie went viral on YouTube. Photo: YouTube
JetBlue Flight 1416 was just minutes into its trip from Long Beach, California, to Austin, Texas, on September 18 when Scott Welch, a passenger in Seat 5A, heard a suspicious pop. Moments later, smoke began to fill the cabin, clogging the air to the point that he could see only a few rows in front of him, he said. The starboard engine of the Airbus A320, he soon learned, had blown.
As other passengers began to cry and pray, Welch strapped on his oxygen mask and pondered his fate.
"I understood that I might be going to meet God," Welch, 34, recalled. He thought, "If this is my time, this is my time."
When his plane cabin filled with smoke, Scott Welch quickly pulled out his phone. Photo: YouTube
Faced with his own mortality, he could have closed his eyes in quiet reflection. Instead, Welch, a sports photographer, responded in a distinctly 2014 manner: He reached for his Samsung Galaxy Note 3 smartphone, thrust it into the murky air and pressed the "record" button. He even found the presence of mind to record a smiling selfie.
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Never mind that the plane landed safely soon after, making the mechanical failure a relative nonevent. The pulse-quickening, you-are-there footage captured by Welch and other passengers helped propel the story to national news. Welch's two brief videos, meanwhile, went viral; one attracted more than 1 million views.
It is no longer enough to record seemingly every last moment of life with your smartphone, it seems. Near-death is fair game, too.
Thanks to the Personal Video Industrial Complex - tens of millions of video-enabled smartphones, feeding countless hours daily to video-sharing behemoths - rock concerts, presidential inaugurations, fourth-grade school plays and even midair near-disasters can all be considered "content" now, inspiring us all to tap our inner Edward R. Murrow and record the event for posterity.
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Amazon recently premiered its new dramedy Transparent. The massive retailer is banking on its original TV content to rope in new customers. Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Amazon Studios hide caption
Amazon recently premiered its new dramedy Transparent. The massive retailer is banking on its original TV content to rope in new customers.
Amazon is betting that binge-watching will lead to more online buying. On Friday, the company put up all 10 episodes of a highly anticipated series called Transparent, a show about a transgender parent coming out to her children just one of a spate of original movies and TV shows coming out this year.
Though the online shopping giant has a history of mediocre self-produced programming, this time it's bringing in some big name talent and putting a lot more financial muscle behind its efforts. This push is part of a much bigger plan by Amazon that includes original video games and books.
Roy Price, the head of Amazon Studios, says getting arts and entertainment to its customers is in Amazon's DNA.
"We sell a wide variety of products, but we do have our origin in books and movies and music and stories," Price says.
So in 2011, the company made access to a streaming video service part of Amazon Prime, the retailer's premium service. Prime was initially set up to provide free two-day delivery for an annual fee. Price says adding exclusive content is a way to make Prime more appealing.
"It adds special value to the service to have something completely unique and original that was developed with that customer group in mind," he says.
And with the idea in mind of bringing in a lot of new customers as well, says Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter. He says it's about a lot more than getting them to watch TV.
"Amazon concluded a few years ago that if you give people only free shipping they're less likely to sign up than if you give them free shipping plus free media," Pachter says.
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'Now I'm the 'JetBlue selfie guy': Scott Welch's selfie went viral on YouTube. Photo: YouTube
JetBlue Flight 1416 was just minutes into its trip from Long Beach, California, to Austin, Texas, on September 18 when Scott Welch, a passenger in Seat 5A, heard a suspicious pop. Moments later, smoke began to fill the cabin, clogging the air to the point that he could see only a few rows in front of him, he said. The starboard engine of the Airbus A320, he soon learned, had blown.
As other passengers began to cry and pray, Welch strapped on his oxygen mask and pondered his fate.
"I understood that I might be going to meet God," Welch, 34, recalled. He thought, "If this is my time, this is my time."
When his plane cabin filled with smoke, Scott Welch quickly pulled out his phone. Photo: YouTube
Faced with his own mortality, he could have closed his eyes in quiet reflection. Instead, Welch, a sports photographer, responded in a distinctly 2014 manner: He reached for his Samsung Galaxy Note 3 smartphone, thrust it into the murky air and pressed the "record" button. He even found the presence of mind to record a smiling selfie.
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Never mind that the plane landed safely soon after, making the mechanical failure a relative nonevent. The pulse-quickening, you-are-there footage captured by Welch and other passengers helped propel the story to national news. Welch's two brief videos, meanwhile, went viral; one attracted more than 1 million views.
It is no longer enough to record seemingly every last moment of life with your smartphone, it seems. Near-death is fair game, too.
Thanks to the Personal Video Industrial Complex - tens of millions of video-enabled smartphones, feeding countless hours daily to video-sharing behemoths - rock concerts, presidential inaugurations, fourth-grade school plays and even midair near-disasters can all be considered "content" now, inspiring us all to tap our inner Edward R. Murrow and record the event for posterity.
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Focus on Your Health: Performing Arts Medicine, with Dr. Jennifer Yang
Focus on Your Health is a weekly program on the K-Jazz Radio Network in northern and western Arizona. This edition features Dr. Jennifer Yang, who specializes in physical medicine and rehabilitatio...
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