Thursday, June 15, 2023

JPL News - Day in Review

Cassini Data Reveals Building Block for Life in Enceladus' Ocean | Largest PDF Archive Aids Malware Research | Space Trivia 
 
Day in Review
Solar System
The icy crust at the south pole of Enceladus exhibits large fissures that allow water from the subsurface ocean to spray into space as geysers, forming a plume of icy particles. NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which captured this imagery in 2009
Phosphorus, a key chemical element for many biological processes, has been found in icy grains emitted by the small moon and is likely abundant in its subsurface ocean. Read More

Technology

As part of DARPA's SafeDocs program, JPL data scientists have amassed 8 million PDFs that can now be used for further study in order to make the internet more secure. Read More

Space Trivia


Last week, NASA's NuSTAR X-ray telescope gave us new clues about the brightest, most energetic gamma-ray burst ever detected. Most gamma-ray bursts occur when:

A. A pair of black holes collide

B. The core of a massive star collapses 

C. A planet falls into a massive star

D. A planet is vaporized by a super-laser from the Death Star


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