66 million-year-old deathbed linked to dinosaur-killing meteor | Research UC Berkeley
A meteor impact 66 million years ago generated a tsunami-like wave in an inland sea that killed and buried fish, mammals, insects and a dinosaur, the first victims of Earth’s last mass extinction event. The death scene from within an hour of the impact has been excavated at an unprecedented fossil site in North Dakota.
This maze is an element of the calibration target for SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals) which also include some spacesuit materials and a slice of a Martian meteorite, check this out!
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia24261-sherlocs-calibration-target-aboard-the-perseverance-mars-rover
#Mars #Perseverance #Sol1147 #rover #PerseveranceRover #space #SHERLOC #calibration #target #Martian #maze #spacesuit #meteroite #Astrodon #science #engineering #STEM
SHERLOC's Calibration Target Aboard the Perseverance Mars Rover
The calibration target for SHERLOC, one of the instruments aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, features a slice of Martian meteorite, plus spacesuit materials, including helmet-visor material that doubles as a geocache target.
Was there a #fireball over #Ontario tonight? Anyone get pictures? #meteor #meteroite
Where was it?
Read ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer's latest blog entry about the current #
Pangaea course in which he tries to grasp the impossible power of #
meteroite impacts:
http://blogs.esa.int/caves/2017/09/13/walking-on-diamonds/ http://blogs.esa.int/caves/2017/09/13/walking-on-diamonds/
Stephen Hoffman
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Daniel Pomarède
Mark Crowley
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