Introduction: On 7 August 1976 the Viking 2 lander touched down at Utopia Planitia, Mars. Both Viking lander’s primary aim was to look for the presence of organic life on the surface of Mars. The lander also had a comprehensive meteorological package to monitor the martian conditions. The meteorological package included pressure, temperature, and wind sensors, enabling the landers to perform th...

The InSight mission has operated on the surface of Mars for nearly two Earth years, returning detections first Marsquakes. lander also deployed a meteorological instrument package and cameras to monitor local activity. These instruments have detected boundary layer phenomena, including small-scale vortices. vortices register as short-lived, negative pressure excursions closely resemble those th...

Introduction: Dust devils on Mars could be an important mechanism for delivery of dust into the Martian atmosphere. Suspended dust in the Martian atmosphere is observed to be ~1-2μm in diameter [1,2,3] and calculations of fall-out rate [4,5] imply an ongoing supply of this fine dust to the atmosphere. Laboratory wind tunnel experiments [6,7], however, suggest that entrainment of fine dust into ...

The Nao Devils Dortmund have their roots in the teams Microsoft Hellhounds (and therefore part of the German Team), DoH!Bots and BreDoBrothers. The team had a number of successes, such as winning the RoboCup World Championship twice with the GermanTeam (2004 and 2005), winning the RoboCup German Open 2005, the Dutch Open and US Open 2006 with the Microsoft Hellhounds, and winning the Four-Legge...

NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity (MSL) has measured simultaneous fluctuations in wind and atmospheric pressure caused by passing convective vortices, i.e. dustless dust devils. We study the dynamics of these vortices fitting a mathematical vortex model to measurements MSL. The matches data adequately well 29 out 33 studied pass events having sufficient quality. Clockwise countercl...

Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumor Disease (DFTD) is a transmissible cancer threatening to cause the extinction of Tasmanian Devils in the wild. The aim of this study was to determine the susceptibility of the DFTD to vincristine. Escalating dosage rates of vincristine (0.05 to 0.136 mg/kg) were given to Tasmanian devils in the early stages of DFTD (n = 8). None of these dosage rates impacted the out...