Nathan Bridges, co-investigator from the mission, spoke with Marketplaces Mark Garrison about the Curiositys latest discovery and what its like to work on Martian time. Below is an edited transcript.
Date: Jan 19, 2017
Category: Sci/Tech
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NASA's Curiosity Rover Studies Mars Sand Dunes for the First Time
e dont know why. We have models based on the lower air pressure. It takes a higher wind speed to get a particle moving. But now well have the first opportunity to make detailed observations. Nathan Bridges, leader of the planning team for Curiositys dune campaign said in a statement.
Date: Dec 12, 2015
Category: Sci/Tech
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Curiosity Pays A Visit To The Intriguing Dunes Of Mars
It'll look for clues about the dunes' composition and how the wind shapes the dunes. For example, "These dunes have a different texture from dunes on Earth," says Nathan Bridges from the Curiosity team. "The ripples on them are much larger than ripples on top of dunes on Earth, and we don't know wh
Date: Dec 11, 2015
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Mars Curiosity Rover Will be the First to Explore Alien Sand Dunes
These dunes have a different texture from dunes on Earth, said Nathan Bridges, the lead planner for active dunes campaign. The ripples on them are much larger than the ripples on top of dunes on Earth and we dont know why. We have models based on the lower air pressure. It takes a higher wind sp
Date: Nov 18, 2015
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Dunes on Titan need firm winds to move, experiments at ASU show
That doesn't sound like much, says Nathan Bridges of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, one of the co-authors, "but it makes more sense when you realize this is a dense atmosphere blowing against particles that are very light."
Date: Dec 08, 2014
Category: Sci/Tech
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Titan's Winds Are 50 Percent Stronger Than Previously Believed
"Until now, there's been a big mystery as to why most winds on Titan blow from the east, yet the dunes appear to form from westerly winds," said Nathan Bridges, planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., and a co-author of the paper.
Date: Dec 08, 2014
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NASA Spacecraft Detects Changes in Martian Sand Dunes
"We chose Nili Patera because we knew there was sand motion going on there, and we could quantify it," said Nathan Bridges, a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., and lead author of the Nature paper. "The Nili dunes also are similar to dunes in p
Date: May 09, 2012
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Sands of Mars Caught Blowing in the Wind by NASA Spacecraft
"Mars either has more gusts of wind than we knew about before, or the winds are capable of transporting more sand," explained planetary scientist Nathan Bridges of the Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., who led the new study on the shifty sand dunes on Mars.