This discovery shows that these #sediments were formed in a river, a delta or near the shore of an ancient lake. It raises questions about #oxydation processes on Mars... and reinforces the hypothesis of past #habitability...
Reading about this xz backdoor story from the outside as a person who is still learning much about the technical ins and outs, but as a psychologist it is just overwhelming to imagine a maintainer in this position and all of the feelings of pressure and skill based identity and social isolation that must be involved.
Imho psychology has a duty to show up for technology practitioners and work for them just like we see and work for the well-being of emergency workers, healthcare providers.
We kick off the session with Tiffany Kataria on assessing #conditions for the origin of #life on #exoplanet. For Tiffany, the origin of life is from geophysics to biophysics and important - habitable doesn’t mean inhabited and the origin of life is a way to rule out these false positives. #ExSSV
"Fossil fuel companies have spent millions of dollars on lobbying and campaign donations to state lawmakers who sponsored anti-protest laws – which now shield about 60% of US gas and oil operations from protest and civil disobedience, according to a new report from Greenpeace USA."
"It’s part of a global strategy reported by the Guardian to silence, discredit and criminalize environmental activists and Indigenous rights defenders opposed to polluting energy, mining and other extractive projects that are incompatible with meaningful climate action."
New data from JWST of Jupiter's moon Europa has identified the sub-surface ocean as the source of CO2 deposits in a region called Tara Regio.
Previous studies, including observations by the Galileo mission many years ago, had detected CO2 but could not rule out an asteroid origin for the CO2.
The 10x10 pixelated images show wavelengths measured by the NIRSpec instrument in 320 x 320 km cells covering Europa. The white pixels correspond to CO2.
Or up and down the ocean waters.
One study showed that irradiation of ice on Europa's surface could create enough oxygen and peroxide, which could oxygenate the ocean within a few million years, allowing the existence of complex, multicellular lifeforms.