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...probe comes in two parts: an orbiter that will stay aloft to conduct atmospheric studies and a lander that will descend to the surface. Dubbed Beagle 2, after Charles Darwin's famous specimen-collecting ship, the lander is only 3 ft. wide when packed for flight, but on the ground it will open like a flower and deploy an impressive array of equipment. Among the instruments are a drill capable of digging 5 ft. below the surface, 12 ovens that can heat samples to some 1,600F to generate carbon dioxide and a mass spectrometer to identify carbon isotopes, along...
...picture of a microbial fossil, that would settle the question. But even NASA acknowledges that when it comes to searching for life, the Europeans have the edge this time. The esa probe comes in two parts: an orbiter that will stay aloft to conduct atmospheric studies and a lander that will descend to the surface. Dubbed Beagle 2, after Charles Darwin's famous specimen-collecting ship, the lander is only 91 cm wide when packed for flight, but on the ground it will open like a flower and deploy an impressive array of equipment. Among the instruments are a drill...
...Lander said that the disparity was a matter of numbers—with thousands of professors involved in biomedical enterprise, HMS professors would be expected to be more represented than those from the smaller FAS science departments...
...when Lander, who spearheaded the proposal for the institute, finally met with a group of scientists including some from FAS, he was not well received, Meister said. “There was no detail [to the proposal]—a lot of hype and buzzwords,” he said. “This is where many of my colleagues lost...
Summers has been promoting life science initiatives as “in the pipeline” since last year, but no progress has been announced. One proposal for a Harvard-MIT collaboration headed up by MIT Professor Eric Lander was reviewed by the Corporation yesterday, but Summers and Hyman refuse to comment on their plans...