SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .April 5th, 2025
#mouse #allergens #inflammation #RORγt+ #pharmacology #Osmanthus #LLM #5-MeO-MiPT #Artemis #regolith #ultrathin #efficiency #breakup #Africa #Angola #cooling #Congo #semantic #structures #multidimensional
man i just found #regolith #linux and man i'm loving it the fact that its simply a deb destribution you can install on all debian based osess is great. The workflows are awesome and the themes are exactly what you like as poweruser or developer thank you guys if anyone is here on mastodon keep up the great work. @regolith
#BlueGhost Lunar Surface Shadow Selfie
Shortly after landing, Blue Ghost's captured another shadow selfie showing the deployed X-band antenna (left) and LEXI payload (right) on the top deck.
Mar. 7, 2025, Credit: Firefly Aerospace
https://flic.kr/p/2qQBz4r
#JMU Würzburg:
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Röntgenaugen für einen Asteroiden
In vier Jahren wird der Asteroid Apophis der Erde sehr nah kommen. Ein Forschungsteam der Universität Würzburg entwickelt jetzt eine Weltraum-Kamera, die mit einer neuen Technik neue Bilder von ihm liefern soll.
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https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/aktuelles/einblick/single/news/roentgenkamera-apophis/
4.3.2025
One of Blue Ghost's 10 NASA Payloads, Lunar PlanetVac successfully collected, transferred, and sorted lunar soil from the Moon using pressurized nitrogen gas.
Mar. 6, 2025, Credit: Firefly Aerospace https://flic.kr/p/2qQkj7S
Blue Ghost Mission 1 - Lunar PlanetVac on the Moon
The Lunar PlanetVac instrument, designed for the sample collection of lunar regolith, was deployed to the lunar surface and is shown at the end of Blue Ghost’s surface access arm.
Mar. 4, 2025, Credit: Firefly Aerospace https://flic.kr/p/2qQ7MyQ
Lunar 
dust is often angular, sticky and #sharp. “We’ll be looking at how dust adheres to various materials. We’re taking stereo imaging as we descend to the surface to see how the rocket plume is affecting the lunar #regolith. And we’re going to test the usage of electromagnetism to mitigate or prevent dust buildup.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/science/blue-ghost-firefly-mission-1-moon-landing.html
[First results from #DORN on the #Moon] The recovery of samples of #regolith and lunar rocks, coupled with the analysis of #surface gases by the #DORN instrument, has enabled the scientists involved in the #ChangE6 mission to identify the occurrence of two volcanic episodes on the far side of the Moon, 4.2 and 2.8 billion years ago. For the record, the samples brought back by the #Apollo and #Luna missions from the visible side of our satellite attest to a single volcanic event, dating back more than 3 billion years.
Further analyses are underway, which will “refine previous observations made by remote sensing, which have shown that the far side of the Moon is different, in terms of #geophysics (differences in crustal thickness, for example) and the chemical and mineralogical composition of the rocks, from that of the visible side”, explains Pierre-Yves Meslin, astronomer at IRAP.
(Radiometric-Derived) Sediment Susceptibility For The Te Hoiere Pelorus Catchment [New Zealand]
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http://alturl.com/hxbvg <-- shared technical report
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http://alturl.com/xkgsv <-- shared related technical article
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[reminded so much of the engineering geology work I did in my thesis in New Zealand]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #AGRS #gammaray #spectroscopy #engineeringgeology #risk #hazard #massmovement #landslide #rainfall #precipitation #watershed #TeHoiere #Pelorus #Catchment #NewZealand #waterquality #waterresources #water #hydrology #geology #soil #regolith #topography #slope #aspect #spatialanalysis #landuse #humanimpacts #masswasting #erosion #sediment #sedimentation #radiometrics #LiDAR #spatialtools
@TeHoiere
@leberschnitzel #Regolith if you want to use a tiling window manager.
Zkouším desktopové prostředí #Regolith, postavené na Gnome, ale využívající window manager #i3wm (či sway). Nápad je to dobrý, konfigurace přes nějaké klikátko mi vyhovuje, když se nechci vrtat v hlubinách konfiguračních souborů, zároveň jsem zvyklý na tiling wm.
Jen to na Ubuntu 24.10 má nějaké mouchy, keybinding viewer mi naskočí až po 30s po stisknutí klávesové zkratky, ale to bude něco, co se jistě brzy opraví.
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DLR testet an der TU Braunschweig Wassergewinnung unter Mondbedingungen
Wasser aus Mondgestein für zukünftige astronautische Missionen
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"Das gewonnene Wasser soll als Trinkwasser, zur Sauerstoffherstellung oder für die Herstellung von Raketentreibstoffen auf Wasserstoffbasis im Weltraum genutzt werden können."
28.10.2024
J'ai passé la journée d'hier à réinstaller mon ordinateur principal.
Après quelques années sous @regolith (avec une base Ubuntu), je suis passé à Regolith sur Debian.
C'est quand même pas super simple. Du coup, j'ai écrit ce que j'ai fait :
https://blog.simonlefort.be/regolith-on-debian.html
Ce n'est pas aussi user-friendly qu'une installation classique de Debian, Ubuntu ou autre... Sans parler des configurations post-installation qui sont parfois compliquées... Mais ça semble tourner!
Would any of you have recently tried @regolith #Linux ?
With a Debian ? 
› https://regolith-desktop.com
› https://github.com/regolith-linux
Quelqu'un·e aurait installé #Regolith récemment ? Depuis une Debian ?
#DLR:
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Eröffnung der LUNA-Anlage – „Moon on Earth“ in Köln
Trainingsanlage für astronautische und robotische Mond-Missionen
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https://www.dlr.de/de/aktuelles/nachrichten/2024/trainingsanlage-fuer-astronautische-und-robotische-mond-missionen
25.9.2024
[Back to the far side ... of the #Moon] This is the title of the documentary devoted to the Chang'e-6 mission, which took the #DORN instrument (IRAP & @cnes) to the far side of the #Moon and brought back samples of lunar #regolith.
This documentary details the stakes of this mission, the international #collaborations (France, ESA, Italy, Pakistan), and the mission's progress and expectations.
Watch it again here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt6AdXCVY1w
An Earth-Bound Homage to a Martian Biochemistry Experiment - With all the recent attention on Mars and the search for evidence of ancient life ... - https://hackaday.com/2024/09/14/an-earth-bound-homage-to-a-martian-biochemistry-experiment/ #chemistryhacks #labeledrelease #carbondioxide #carbon-14 #nutrient #regolith #viking #space #mars #co2
Fiber-Optic Seismic Sensing Of Vadose Zone Soil Moisture Dynamics
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-50690-6 <-- shared paper
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[broadly, a 'seismic' listening technique could help researchers map water movement, moisture levels in soil, with these researchers at Caltech have figured out a way to use vibrations from passing cars to see how much water sits directly beneath the ground’s surface…]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #array #survey #soil #regolith #seismic #water #hydrology #waterresources #watersecurity #subsurface #vadose #vadosezone #soilmoisture #moisture #weather #precipitation #rainfall #surfacewater #groundwater #ecology #agriculture #ecosystems #spatiotemporal #model #modeling #spatialanalysis #fiberoptics #fibreoptics #evapotranspiration #insitu #climatechange #drought #extremeweather #watermanagement #semiarid #geophysics
Greg Cocks 
