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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2019 3:19:18 GMT
FDA Asks Old People To Stop Infusing Children's Blood To Prevent Agingzh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_desktop_2x/public/2019-02/old%20guy%20eating%20kid1.jpg?h=342afb85The FDA has warned old people to stop infusing plasma from young people in order to slow down the aging process, saying it has "no proven clinical benefit" according to Bloomberg. In a Tuesday safety alert, the agency suggested that old people getting scammed with $8,000 per liter plasma to treat age-related issues including dementia, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and heart disease. "There is no proven clinical benefit of infusion of plasma from young donors to cure, mitigate, treat or prevent these conditions, and there are risks associated with the use of any plasma product," reads a statement from FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb and Peter Marks, who leads the agency's biologics center. The idea of infusing young blood to fight aging has attracted technology entrepreneurs like billionaire Peter Thiel and was lampooned in a 2017 episode of the HBO show “Silicon Valley.” Thiel’s reported interest was sparked by a company called Ambrosia, which has locations in five states across the U.S. and sells one liter of blood plasma from donors between the ages of 16 and 25 for $8,000, according to its website. Gottlieb and Marks said none of the plasma treatments has gone through the rigorous testing required by the agency. Ambrosia says “experiments in mice called parabiosis provided the inspiration to deliver treatments with young plasma.” The FDA approval typically requires human trials before companies can make a specific health claim about a product. "The reported uses of these products should not be assumed to be safe or effective," said Gottlieb and Marks. "We strongly discourage consumers from pursuing this therapy outside of clinical trials under appropriate institutional review board and regulatory oversight." Plasma infusions are an FDA approved treatment intrauma settings or for people whose blood doesn't coagulate, however the agency notes there are risks, including circulatory overload, allergic reactions, lung injury and the transmission of infectious diseases. "We’re concerned that some patients are being preyed upon by unscrupulous actors touting treatments of plasma from young donors as cures and remedies," say Gottlieb and Marks. "Such treatments have no proven clinical benefits for the uses for which these clinics are advertising them, and are potentially harmful." As we noted in January, Ambrosia was launched by Stanford University graduate Jesse Karmazin, who charges $8,000 for one liter of young blood, and $12,000 for two liters. Karmazin, who isn’t a licensed medical practitioner, told reporters last year that he had hoped to open his first clinic in New York City by the end of 2018 - however following Tuesday's FDA announcement, they are no longer treating patients according to their website. As of last fall, the company had performed the procedure on about 150 people ranging in age from 35 to 92, while 81% of those people participated in the company's clinical trial. The trial gave patients one and a half liters of plasma from a donor between the ages of 16 and 25 and was conducted with David Wright, a physician who has his own intravenous blood therapy center in California. Trial participants footed the bill for their own treatments - while the results of their clinical trials have not been publicly released. "The trial was an investigational study. We saw some interesting things, and we do plan to publish that data. And we want to begin to open clinics where the treatment will be made available," the company's COO said... several months before he left. And now, it appears that those wanting to procure young blood will need to hunt elsewhere.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Feb 20, 2019 11:51:00 GMT
Good morning lovely UFOCasebookers,
Science Daily
Pottery reveals America's first social media networks Ancient Indigenous societies, including Mississippian Mound cultures, were built through social networks
Date: February 19, 2019
Source: Washington University in St. Louis
Examples of the kinds of pottery produced by people living across southern Appalachia between AD 800 and 1650.
Long before Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook and even MySpace, early Mississippian Mound cultures in America's southern Appalachian Mountains shared artistic trends and technologies across regional networks that functioned in similar ways as modern social media, suggests new research from Washington University in St. Louis.
"Just as we have our own networks of 'friends' and 'followers' on platforms like Facebook and Twitter, societies that existed in North America between 1,200 and 350 years ago had their own information sharing networks," said Jacob Lulewicz, lecturer of archaeology in the Department of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences.
"Our study found a way to reconstruct these indigenous communication networks," he said. "Our analysis shows how these networks laid the groundwork for Native American political systems that began developing as far back as 600 A.D."
The study utilizes sophisticated social network analysis to map social and political connections that helped unite friends and families in dozens of Native American villages well before the arrival of European explorers.
The findings are based on a messaging archive that is preserved not in bytes, but in bits of pottery sherds -- fragments -- unearthed over many years in archaeology digs at dozens of Mississippian culture sites scattered across southern Appalachia.
Focusing on subtle evolving changes in the technologies used to temper and strengthen pottery and the cultural symbols used to decorate them, the study provides a detailed chronological map of how new pottery techniques signified connections between these communities.
The ceramics database includes 276,626 sherds from 43 sites across eastern Tennessee, and 88,705 sherds from 41 sites across northern Georgia. The collection represents pottery created between 800 and 1650 A.D., a period that saw the gradual emergence and later decline of powerful chiefdoms that controlled wide networks of villages in the region.
The study focuses on villages clustered around the site of Etowah in Bartow County, Georgia, an important Mississippian community that included several low earthen mounds with large ceremonial buildings. It served as the regional seat of social, political, economic and religious power across the region -- influence that reached its peak between 1050 to 1325 A.D.
These chiefdoms were still in place when the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto became one of the first Europeans to visit the region in 1540 A.D.
De Soto's accounts of autonomous villages loosely bound together under the influence of a single powerful chief, then residing at the town of Coosa in what is today northern Georgia, have long influenced how historians characterize the social and political structures of these and other early Eastern North American societies.
Lulewicz' findings suggest that the ruling elites drew their power from social networks created by the masses.
The emergence of powerful Native American chiefdoms and the centralized leadership, elaborate religious movements and institutionalized inequality that came with them, he argues, were built upon foundations created by the wider, pre-existing social networks of common people -- systems that proved to be more stable and durable than any interactions dictated by elite chiefs.
"What I show in the paper is that while we see things like the emergence of super powerful chiefs and the rise of major economic inequalities, the very foundations of society -- especially relationships and networks of kinship and family and reciprocity -- remained virtually unchanged over 1,000 years," Lulewicz said. "That is, even though elite interests and political strategies waxed and waned and collapsed and flourished, very basic relationships and networks were some of the strongest, most durable aspects of society."
His findings suggest that strong social connections between common people have always played an important role in helping societies guard themselves against the vagaries of unpredictable leaders and ruling classes.
Pointing to the role that digital social networks and social media play in contemporary revolutions, and how modern states are often quick to monitor, control or even shut down access to these virtual networks, shows that our connections continue to be valuable social instruments, he said.
"This is super interesting -- at least to me as a social scientist -- for understanding how political movements actually play out," he said. "It doesn't come down to any particular, innate attribute of leaders and elites. What is comes down to is how those individuals are able to leverage the networks in which they are embedded. Even though chiefs emerge at about 1000 A.D., over the next 650 years, chiefs actually shift their strategies of political and economic control. They tap into different parts of their networks, or leverage their connections in very different ways throughout time."
"Because these very basic networks were so durable, they allowed these societies -- especially common people -- to buffer against and mediate the uncertainties associated with major political and economic change. They may have said, 'You go live on top of that huge mound and do your sacred rituals, and we will go about life as usual for the most part.' These communication networks served as a social constant for these people and allowed their cultures to persist for thousands of years even across transformations that could have been catastrophic."
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190219143512.htm
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Feb 20, 2019 11:56:00 GMT
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Post by swamprat on Feb 20, 2019 19:01:48 GMT
Beam me up, Scottie!Physics-astronomy.com FIRST OBJECT SUCCESSFULLY TELEPORTED FROM EARTH TO ORBIT BY CHINESE RESEARCHERS 7 June 2018
Just last year, a Long March 2D rocket lift off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi Desert transporting a satellite called Micius, named after an ancient Chinese logician from 391 B.C. Micius is in a Sun-synchronous orbit so that it travels over the exact same point on Earth at the same time each day.
Micius is very important for quantum experiments. It has a highly sensitive receiver that can detect the quantum states of single photons sent from the ground. It is very helpful in experimenting entanglement, cryptography, and teleportation.
Now Micius team publicized the results of its first experiments. They used Micius to successfully teleport the first object from the ground to orbit.
Researchers were able to teleport a proton from Earth to the orbit. You can read about the whole experiment and how it was done here.
This is the first time that any object has been teleported from Earth to orbit, and it also smashes the record for the longest distance for entanglement.
This experiment was done by Chinese researchers.
This also demonstrates China’s clear dominance and lead in a field that, until now, was led by Europe and the U.S.
The research paper has been published in arxiv.org. You can read it here.
www.physics-astronomy.com/2017/07/first-object-successfully-teleported.html?fbclid=IwAR1Bg2Eu2ucjnwNqV1YAk14iXmRLgvsM5JTaiyMJImkbki-qeU6zX0rbptg#.XG2bNaJKiUl
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Post by HAL on Feb 20, 2019 19:51:09 GMT
Sounds very much like the kind of project created by physicists to keep physicists in employment.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Feb 21, 2019 11:08:13 GMT
Good morning fellow searchers,
East Idaho News
‘Project Blue Book’ fashions borrowed elements into an entertaining whole
Adam Forsgren Published at 6:51 pm, February 20, 2019
There is no originality left in entertainment. The best one can hope cobble together elements from old stories in a way the feels fresh and new. That’s what executive producer Robert Zemeckis and the good folks at The History Channel have attempted to do with their new series, “Project Blue Book.” By borrowing bits and pieces from other TV shows, movies and stories, they’ve cobbled together a fun, engaging series about a fascinating chapter in American history.
“Blue Book” centers on astrophysics professor J. Allen Hynek (Aidan Gillen), who finds himself recruited by Capt. Michael Quinn (Michael Malarkey) to join the American government’s legendary Project Blue Book. Together, Hynek and Quinn investigate incidents involving UFO sightings and construct plausible, science-based explanations to these sightings.
But it doesn’t take long for things to get labyrinthine and mysterious. Shadowy, hat-wearing boogeymen and stalkers harass Hynek’s wife, Mimi (Laura Mennell). Throw in some foreign parties that are interested in what Hynek is studying and some military leader guiding the project who may not be trustworthy, and you have a compelling tale built on a sturdy foundation of U.S. history and UFO mythology.
“Blue Book” borrows from numerous sources. The “truth is out there” and conspiracy elements of “The X-Files.” The mystery and suspense of a good detective tale. The lighting and visual cues of horror films. The show takes all these elements and stuffs them into a blender. The result is at turns dramatic, grippingly suspenseful and completely engrossing.
It helps that the cast does good work. Gillen is excellent as a man of science who faces possibilities that contradict everything he’s previously believed. He’s dumbfounded (and maybe a little frightened) by what he’s seeing, but he’s determined to uncover the truth. Good stuff.
Malarkey is just as good as Capt. Quinn, a military man whose only concern is getting the job done. Part of the enjoyment of this series is watching Quinn’s nose get out of joint as Hynek drags him around trying to get the whole story after he’s decided the cases are closed. Gillen and Hynek make a pair that’s a lot of fun to watch.
The supporting cast also turns in strong work, especially Mennell. Neil McDonough shows up to be gruff and chew scenery, and he steals every scene he’s in. Ksenia Solo’s turn as Susie Miller sets off your sense that something is fishy from the first moment we see her, and that helps boost the tension and the drama.
From a story standpoint, “Blue Book” claims to be based on actual historical events, but it doesn’t take very long for the show to veer away from pure history. The writers have done a good job of melding the sci-fi stuff with the historical stuff and making them feel like they plausibly exist in this world. The dialogue is nothing to write home about, but nobody says anything so ridiculous to break you out of the story.
“Project Blue Book” may be assembled out of other shows’ old furniture, but those bits and pieces come together to form a sci-fi/historical series that succeeds in spite of its lack of originality. With good character work, a cool premise, some tense sequences and a compelling overarching story that draws you in so smoothly you may not even notice you’ve been hooked, “Project Blue Book” is pure UFO mythology bliss.
www.eastidahonews.com/2019/02/project-blue-book-fashions-borrowed-elements-into-an-entertaining-whole/
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Feb 21, 2019 11:17:46 GMT
RED WHITE AND DISCLOSURE
Published on Feb 20, 2019
Check this video out everybody a mass UFO sighting in the Skies over Mexico notice how you hear the air-raid sirens blasting in the background and people panicking and at the end something on the ground is destroyed or blown up by something from the sky
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Post by thelmadonna on Feb 21, 2019 12:15:09 GMT
Good morning fellow searchers,
East Idaho News
‘Project Blue Book’ fashions borrowed elements into an entertaining whole
Adam Forsgren Published at 6:51 pm, February 20, 2019
There is no originality left in entertainment. The best one can hope cobble together elements from old stories in a way the feels fresh and new. That’s what executive producer Robert Zemeckis and the good folks at The History Channel have attempted to do with their new series, “Project Blue Book.” By borrowing bits and pieces from other TV shows, movies and stories, they’ve cobbled together a fun, engaging series about a fascinating chapter in American history.
“Blue Book” centers on astrophysics professor J. Allen Hynek (Aidan Gillen), who finds himself recruited by Capt. Michael Quinn (Michael Malarkey) to join the American government’s legendary Project Blue Book. Together, Hynek and Quinn investigate incidents involving UFO sightings and construct plausible, science-based explanations to these sightings.
But it doesn’t take long for things to get labyrinthine and mysterious. Shadowy, hat-wearing boogeymen and stalkers harass Hynek’s wife, Mimi (Laura Mennell). Throw in some foreign parties that are interested in what Hynek is studying and some military leader guiding the project who may not be trustworthy, and you have a compelling tale built on a sturdy foundation of U.S. history and UFO mythology.
“Blue Book” borrows from numerous sources. The “truth is out there” and conspiracy elements of “The X-Files.” The mystery and suspense of a good detective tale. The lighting and visual cues of horror films. The show takes all these elements and stuffs them into a blender. The result is at turns dramatic, grippingly suspenseful and completely engrossing.
It helps that the cast does good work. Gillen is excellent as a man of science who faces possibilities that contradict everything he’s previously believed. He’s dumbfounded (and maybe a little frightened) by what he’s seeing, but he’s determined to uncover the truth. Good stuff.
Malarkey is just as good as Capt. Quinn, a military man whose only concern is getting the job done. Part of the enjoyment of this series is watching Quinn’s nose get out of joint as Hynek drags him around trying to get the whole story after he’s decided the cases are closed. Gillen and Hynek make a pair that’s a lot of fun to watch.
The supporting cast also turns in strong work, especially Mennell. Neil McDonough shows up to be gruff and chew scenery, and he steals every scene he’s in. Ksenia Solo’s turn as Susie Miller sets off your sense that something is fishy from the first moment we see her, and that helps boost the tension and the drama.
From a story standpoint, “Blue Book” claims to be based on actual historical events, but it doesn’t take very long for the show to veer away from pure history. The writers have done a good job of melding the sci-fi stuff with the historical stuff and making them feel like they plausibly exist in this world. The dialogue is nothing to write home about, but nobody says anything so ridiculous to break you out of the story.
“Project Blue Book” may be assembled out of other shows’ old furniture, but those bits and pieces come together to form a sci-fi/historical series that succeeds in spite of its lack of originality. With good character work, a cool premise, some tense sequences and a compelling overarching story that draws you in so smoothly you may not even notice you’ve been hooked, “Project Blue Book” is pure UFO mythology bliss.
www.eastidahonews.com/2019/02/project-blue-book-fashions-borrowed-elements-into-an-entertaining-whole/
Crystal
I was trying to find an old old report on what type of ET were involved during this time period. I remember on the net finding a very good if not complete list of types called "blue" something. After a while I got to the place I found them and guess what?.......... www.ufocasebook.com/www.ufocasebook.com/alientypes.html
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Post by nyx on Feb 21, 2019 16:10:38 GMT
Project Blue Book TV series is very well made.
My wife even breaks herself away from the love stories and mysteries at the Hallmark station to watch Project Blue Book.
I know this show takes from other SciFi shows and movies, but there is some truth in the episodes.
The government has known what is going on a long time ago, and the government is just playing stupid.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Feb 22, 2019 10:58:45 GMT
Good morning thelmadonna, nyx and all of our lovely UFOCasebook members,
Asahi Shimbun
Hayabusa 2 lands briefly on rocky asteroid, fires bullet
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN February 22, 2019 at 14:55 JST
It's like landing on a pitcher's mound in a baseball stadium from 20 kilometers above.
That is how Japanese space agency officials described the Hayabusa 2's successful landing on an asteroid on Feb. 22, after which it fired a bullet into the surface to collect samples.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced that Hayabusa 2 landed at 7:29 a.m. and discharged the projectile into Ryugu's surface before ascending.
"The hand of mankind has now reached a new small celestial object. Given the various scenarios, it landed under the best conditions," project manager Yuichi Tsuda said about the landing.
The successful first-attempt landing is a far cry from the mission of the original Hayabusa, which ran into a number of problems before finally bringing back samples from the Itokawa asteroid in 2010 after burning up when it re-entered Earth's atmosphere.
Hayabusa 2 began its descent toward Ryugu from an altitude of 20 km at 1:15 p.m on Feb. 21. When it reached 500 meters at 6:14 a.m on Feb. 22, the decision was made to proceed with the landing. The probe conducted the landing through autonomous control because of transmission difficulties, given that the probe is at an asteroid about 340 million km from Earth.
Scientists in the control room of JAXA's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, stood waiting anxiously for signals from Hayabusa 2 showing that it had safely landed.
Junichiro Kawaguchi, the project manager for the original Hayabusa mission, called the Hayabusa 2 mission an attempt to make up for the many problems encountered by the first probe.
Referring to the first problem-plagued Hayabusa, Takashi Kubota, an ISAS professor, said, "A perfect task was accomplished on the first try (of Hayabusa 2). There is nothing more to say."
Makoto Yoshikawa, the manager of the current mission, had said he wanted the latest probe to operate more according to schedule.
Smiles and applause broke out when data was received from Hayabusa 2 that showed it had landed and fired the bullet into the surface as part of efforts to collect sand and stones thrown up by the projectile's impact.
Expressing relief over the successful touchdown, Yoshikawa said, "I want to thank Hayabusa 2 for perfectly carrying out a very complicated mission requiring a high degree of accuracy, as it operated all alone at a great distance away."
Scientists believe the samples may help unravel the mysteries of how life began by analyzing them for traces of water or organic materials.
After its launch in December 2014, Hayabusa 2 flew around the sun and toward Ryugu, for what would be a total journey of about 3 billion km.
Initially, the probe was to attempt a landing in October 2018 after reaching the asteroid four months earlier. However, the surface of Ryugu was found to be covered with rocks as large as 60 centimeters in height, forcing JAXA scientists to reconsider their landing spot and guidance procedure.
Two additional touch-and-go landings will be attempted by July. From the second landing, metal projectiles will be shot into the asteroid to create an artificial crater to collect samples from deeper inside Ryugu.
Hayabusa 2 is scheduled to return to Earth toward the end of 2020.
www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201902220032.html
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Feb 22, 2019 11:09:15 GMT
Telegraph
Tiny T-rex ancestor discovered in Utah
Sarah Knapton, Science Editor 21 February 2019 • 4:31pm
A diminutive Tyrannosaurus Rex which was barely taller than a donkey has been found in Utah. The tiny dinosaur, which stood around three to four feet tall at the hip, lived 15 million years before its terrifying descendant, and has been named Moros Intrepidus, meaning ‘harbinger of doom.’
Large 20ft tall tyrannosaurus lived in the Cretaceous, from around 81 million years ago, but the new dinosaur dates to around 96 million years ago.
However it was no less ferocious, according to experts and based on its leg bones was probably more fleet of foot than its bulky relative.
"Moros was lightweight and exceptionally fast," said D Lindsay Zanno, paleontologist at North Carolina State University
"These adaptations, together with advanced sensory capabilities, are the mark of a formidable predator. It could easily have run down prey, while avoiding confrontation with the top predators of the day.”
Paleontologists have been trying to determine how large tyrannosaurus evolved and have spent the past 10 years looking for fossils which may hold the clues.
Finally, rocks deposited at the beginning of the Late Cretaceous period yielded teeth and a hind limb from its little ancestor.
"When and how quickly tyrannosaurs went from wallflower to prom king has been vexing paleontologists for a long time," added Dr Zanno.
"The only way to attack this problem was to get out there and find more data on these rare animals."
The team estimates that Moros was over seven years old when it died, and that it was nearly full-grown.
And bone studies showed that its closest relations were from Asia, suggesting that their ancestors crossed the Alaskan land-bridge to North America.
"T. rex and its famous contemporaries such as Triceratops may be among our most beloved cultural icons, but we owe their existence to their intrepid ancestors who migrated here from Asia at least 30 million years prior," added Dr Zanno.
The research was published in the journal Communications Biology.
www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2019/02/21/tiny-t-rex-height-donkey-dug-utah/
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Feb 23, 2019 11:02:34 GMT
Good Saturday morning lovely people,
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Feb 24, 2019 10:41:49 GMT
Good morning all,
Asahi Shimbun
Kyoto temple enlists Android Buddhist deity to help people
By JIRO OMURA/ Staff Writer
February 24, 2019 at 17:00 JST
KYOTO--With its hands clasped together, the Android Kannon is adding a modern update to a famed temple built here by the wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the 16th-century warlord who unified Japan, to commemorate her husband.
The Android Kannon, which is a Buddhist deity of mercy, was unveiled to the news media on Feb. 23 at Kodaiji temple before it starts preaching to the public in March.
“Buddhism saw a phenomenal spread in the world with the emergence of Buddhist images,” said Tensho Goto, a priest at the temple in Kyoto’s Higashiyama Ward. “We are hoping that the Android Kannon will help Buddhist teachings reach the hearts of people today.”
The 100 million yen ($909,090) project to build the android was a collaboration between the zen temple and Hiroshi Ishiguro, professor of intelligent robotics at Osaka University.
The temple asked Ishiguro and his team to develop an android that can preach Buddhist teachings in an easily understood manner to help give peace of mind to troubled people.
The android, named Mindar, is programmed to deliver a “sermon” from the Heart Sutras in Japanese. The translated versions of English and Chinese are projected on a screen.
Mindar, which has a camera installed in its left eye, stands 195 centimeters tall, including the base, and weighs 60 kilograms.
It can move its head, as well as arms and torso, which have see-through mechanical parts.
The Kannon deity transforms itself into various forms to help people.
“This time, Kannon changed into an android,” according to the temple.
The special exhibition of the Android Kannon is scheduled to run from March 8 to May 6. Junior high school students and older can attend.
video after the jump:
www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201902240022.html
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Feb 24, 2019 10:50:49 GMT
Phys.org
After a reset, Сuriosity is operating normally
February 23, 2019, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA's Curiosity rover is busy making new discoveries on Mars. The rover has been climbing Mount Sharp since 2014 and recently reached a clay region that may offer new clues about the ancient Martian environment's potential to support life.
Curiosity encountered a hurdle last Friday, when a hiccup during boot-up interrupted its planned activities and triggered a protective safe mode. The rover was brought out of this mode on Tuesday, Feb. 19, and is otherwise operating normally, having successfully booted up over 30 times without further issues.
Throughout the weekend, Curiosity was sending and receiving technical data, communicating with the team in order to help them pinpoint the cause of the issue.
"We're still not sure of its exact cause and are gathering the relevant data for analysis," said Steven Lee, Curiosity's deputy project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. JPL leads the Curiosity mission. "The rover experienced a one-time computer reset but has operated normally ever since, which is a good sign," he added. "We're currently working to take a snapshot of its memory to better understand what might have happened."
Out of an abundance of caution, Lee said, science operations will remain on hold until the issue is better understood.
"In the short term, we are limiting commands to the vehicle to minimize changes to its memory," Lee said. "We don't want to destroy any evidence of what might have caused the computer reset. As a result, we expect science operations will be suspended for a short period of time."
Curiosity is one of two NASA spacecraft actively studying the Martian surface. InSight, a stationary lander, reached the planet on Nov. 26; Opportunity, which ran for more than 14 years, has completed its mission.
Curiosity has been exploring a region—dubbed "Glen Torridon—where clay minerals can be seen from orbit. Clay minerals, which form in water, are especially interesting to the rover's science team. The rover was designed specifically to study ancient environments that could have supported life, and water plays a key role in determining that.
While the engineers address the computer reset, the science team will continue studying the images and other data that have been collected from Glen Torridon. A potential drill location has been sighted just 656 feet (200 meters) away.
"The science team is eager to drill our first sample from this fascinating location," said JPL's Ashwin Vasavada, Curiosity's project scientist. "We don't yet understand how this area fits into the overall history of Mount Sharp, so our recent images give us plenty to think about."
phys.org/news/2019-02-reset-uriosity.html
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