Introduction: The rocks of Gusev Crater around the Spirit landing site are mainly olivine-bearing basalts [1-3], and are thought to have crystallized from lava with low viscosity [4]. These rocks are dark in color, vesicular, fine-grained, and have coatings of dust in varying degrees [5, 6]. However, the bedrock outcrops of the Columbia Hills are remarkably different from those near the landing...

The structural stability and durability of a sensing device at high-temperatures (HT) have important effects on its functionality reliability. This becomes more critical in the devices that work based surface acoustic waves (SAW). In this study, thermomechanical creep behaviors metallization systems, RuAl, MoLa, Mo suggested for electrodes HT-SAW sensors are investigated. Several experiments de...

Introduction: The observation of debris flows in high resolution MGS–MOC images suggests that liquid water was involved in their formation in the recent past [1]. The fact that many debris flows on Mars start from the top of isolated peaks [2, 3] and from the crest of dunes [4, 5, 6] favors an origin by melting of near–surface ice by solar heating. The minimum requirements for pure liquid water...

today, ecotourism is a major tourist activity around the world. it is based on environment potential through which suitable utilization and conservation of sites under management practices including considering accurate planning, potential, and peoples’ preferences are realized. the present study was conducted to determine people’s recreational preferences using questionnaires to evaluate the e...

Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. For more information on Open Research Online's data policy on reuse of materials please consult the policies page. Introduction: We have used topographic data from the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) in the Terra Cimmeria region on Mars running from latitudes 25 to...

Introduction: Despite agreement among researchers of the relatively young age, abundance of finegrained surface material, and low number of craters, when compared with the Southern Highlands, the geological processes involved in the creation of the Medusae Fossae Formation (MFF) on Mars remain elusive [1, 2]. Systematic observations of the western MFF using high resolution images provided by th...

Introduction: The topography of Mars is a key parameter for the understanding of the geological evolution of the planet [1]. Topographic data for most applications are represented as Digital Elevation Models (DEMs). DEMs are characterized by their spatial resolution (distance between neighbor points on the topographic grid) and the accuracy of elevations. The resolution and accuracy required de...

Ruegeria halocynthiae MOLA R1/13b is an alphaproteobacterium isolated from the Mediterranean sea sponge Crambe crambe. We report here the genome sequence and its annotation, revealing the presence of quorum-sensing genes. This is the first report of the full genome of a Ruegeria halocynthiae strain.

Daniel Loret de Mola Lemus∗ Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 e-mail: [email protected] David Kohanbash Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 e-mail: [email protected] Scott Moreland† Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 e-mail: [email protected] David Wettergreen Robotics...