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- uan1
CaSSIS sends first colour images from primary science orbit
This image is from the rim of Koralev crater (165.9 E, 73.3 N) at 5.08 m/px with a ground-track velocity of 2.90 km/s. The solar incidence angle was 76.6 deg at a local solar time of 07:14:11.The CaSSIS test images have looked pretty good so far - even at low Sun. We do have a problem with an Error Detection and Correction (EDAC) software in the instrument which we are trying to solve. CaSSIS detects this and re-boots itself when that happens. The spacecraft doesn't like that!! We are working with ESOC in Darmstadt to find better ways of dealing with the issue. Should be manageable in the short term with a fix due to be ready in a couple of weeks.
Nicolas Thomas
- detritus0
'Chicken embryo tests can prevent practice of gassing billions of cockerels'
- detritus-1
EU agrees total ban on bee-harming pesticides
https://www.theguardian.com/envi…
About time, given the cunting things were invented in the EU.
- M01XXX-3
Largest supercomputer simulation of the Universe. The galactic networks make it seem like the universe is a giant brain.
- detritus0
One for set...
- detritus0
Memory transferred between snails, challenging standard theory of how the brain remembers
“If he’s right, this would be absolutely earth-shattering,” said Tomás Ryan, an assistant professor at Trinity College Dublin, whose lab hunts for engrams, or the physical traces of memory
https://www.statnews.com/2018/05…
“But I don’t think it’s right.”
- _niko2
- The advancement is very real. That’s because Science isn’t a belief system, it’s simply actual progress at work.monospaced
- I can't wait to be able to inject people with irrational fear of doors and such.detritus
- PeterPancake2
A drone sampling the blow hole spout of a whale with a remotely operated petri dish. Happy Wednesday.
https://www.frontiersin.org/arti…
- detritus2
- I’d love to see this work! I imagine a huge carnival ride thing :)monospaced
- utopian1
Bizarre Particles Keep Flying Out of Antarctica’s Ice, and They Might Shatter Modern Physics
- Morning_star-2
Is it ever o.k. to ignore facts?
Cern scientist: 'Physics built by men - not by invitation'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world…- yes, it's okay when it contravenes the preferred narrativeGnash