May 9th, 2010
By Brianna Aubin On the recommendation of a Jacobs Technology employee I met at a space conference in 2008, I read Jared Diamond’s Collapse a couple of years ago. Since I’d already read his book Guns, Germs, and Steel independently of this engineer’s recommendation and found it a fascinating read, it didn’t really take much […]
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Tags: BP, Chevron, environment, exploration, Gulf of Mexico, oil, petroleum
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January 29th, 2010
By Brianna Aubin On January 26th, 2213 days into its mission, NASA declared the Mars rover Spirit, with 1-2 wheels inoperative and the rover itself stuck in a drift, a “stationary research station.” It isn’t dead yet; rover drivers will attempt to orient the rover in such a way as to take maximum advantage of the lessening winter sun while conducting stationary […]
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Tags: exploration, JPL, Mars, NASA, Opportunity, rover, space, Spirit
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