Image Meet The Nuclear-Powered Self-Driving Drone NASA Is Sending To A Moon Of Saturn Sept. 17, 2019 On the face of it, NASA's newest probe sounds incredible. Known as Dragonfly, it is a dual-rotor quadcopter (technically an octocopter, even more technically an X8 octocopter); it's roughly the size of a compact car; it's completely autonomous; it's nuclear powered; and it will hover above the surface of Saturn's moon Titan. LPL alumna Dr. Elizabeth Turtle is the missions Principal Investigator. Read more Image Scientist Uses HPHT Presses to Study Planet Formation Oct. 4, 2018 To gemologists, the high-pressure, high-temperature (HPHT) press speaks of synthetic diamond growth or newfangled methods of diamond color treatment. For Valerie Hillgren, a research scientist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington’s Geophysical Laboratory, the presses that create these conditions are a means to another end: studying how the terrestrial planets of our solar system might have formed. Watch video Pagination « First First page ‹ Previous Previous page … 1 2 3 4 5 6 …
Image Meet The Nuclear-Powered Self-Driving Drone NASA Is Sending To A Moon Of Saturn Sept. 17, 2019 On the face of it, NASA's newest probe sounds incredible. Known as Dragonfly, it is a dual-rotor quadcopter (technically an octocopter, even more technically an X8 octocopter); it's roughly the size of a compact car; it's completely autonomous; it's nuclear powered; and it will hover above the surface of Saturn's moon Titan. LPL alumna Dr. Elizabeth Turtle is the missions Principal Investigator. Read more
Image Scientist Uses HPHT Presses to Study Planet Formation Oct. 4, 2018 To gemologists, the high-pressure, high-temperature (HPHT) press speaks of synthetic diamond growth or newfangled methods of diamond color treatment. For Valerie Hillgren, a research scientist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington’s Geophysical Laboratory, the presses that create these conditions are a means to another end: studying how the terrestrial planets of our solar system might have formed. Watch video
