#SAM instrument

[kuramirocket]

Rafael Navarro-Gonzalez (1959-2021): The Mexican Astrobiologist Who Shaped Our Understanding of The Planet Mars

Rafael Navarro-Gonzalez was a talented and internationally recognized chemist and astrobiologist who worked at NASA. Navarro-Gonzalez is known for his work with other researchers to study the planet Mars. He made fundamental contributions to several fields related to Astrobiology, the origin of life, and life in extreme environments. Among his many accomplishments, he helped lead the team that identified ancient organic compounds on Mars. He was a Co-I on the SAM instrument onboard NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory and on the HABIT instrument onboard ESA’s ExoMars mission. He was also on the Curiosity Mars rover team. His research blended laboratory simulations, fieldwork, and theoretical modeling in transdisciplines in chemistry, physics, and biology. This sort of dominance is unusual and requires a dynamic and intellectual curiosity beyond normal boundaries. He identified the role of volcanic lightning in the origin of life on Earth. He has established one of the very best laboratories in Latin-America.

He has published 137 papers, 4 edited books and over 225 abstracts. Among the most significant contributions are those that deal the detection of organics in Mars-like environments from cold (Antarctica), temperate (Atacama) and hot (Mojave and Libya) deserts on Earth.

Navarro-Gonzalez was born in Mexico City on April 25, 1959. He earned a bachelor’s in biology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) where he became full professor in 2002, and a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Maryland at College Park. Dr. Navarro-González established the Laboratory of Plasma Chemistry and Planetary Studies of the Institute of Nuclear Science at UNAM. 

Rafael Navarro-Gonzalez was the first recipient of the Molina fellowship award. This prize recognizes outstanding scientific achievement. He was also the recipient of the 2009 Alexander von Humboldt Medal and the World Academy of Sciences Award in Earth Sciences.

He died on Jan. 28, 2021 due to Covid-19-related complications.

In honor of his service, NASA named a mountain on Mars after him. The mountain stretches 450 feet (120 meters) tall, “Rafael Navarro Mountain” is located on Mount Sharp in northwest Gale Crater.

Rafael Navarro Mountain

“Rafael was a good friend and dedicated scientist, and it has been a privilege and honor for our Mars exploration team to work with him over the years" said the principal investigator of Curiosity’s SAM experiment.

“We are truly honored to have a prominent hill named after our dad; it’s his and our dream come true to see this happen,” wrote Navarro-González’s children, Rafael and Karina Navarro Aceves, in a statement to NASA.

“Our dad was an accomplished scientist, but above all, a great human being who managed to balance work and family."

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[miiilowo]

mom said it's my turn on the ponynatural (+rambling about their cutiemarks in the tags)

[timdrakesbussy]

You may be used to Sam being a dumbass in the relationship, but I bring you: Sebastian also being a dumbass

[katabay]

some sam drakes :)

nate's theme 4.0 came up on my playlist while I was working on commissions and oh boy. that piano line about a minute in to it still gets me emotional shshdshs

[kimodraw]

thought a lot abt the cw shows these past few days

[johnmurphysgirl]

why am i, an almost 25 year old female obsessed with fictional gay men 😭 i shall never recover

[samsspambox]

hello and welcome back to sam's rambles, a series in which i shall ramble

let's take todays (and, every days if i'm being completely honest) subject: sir artem wing

now, canonically, artem is pretty good at singing. hes had classical training and he's been a pretty big fan of dramas, so let me pose to you some non canonical yet probable scenarios:

1. Artem Wing being Really Into Musicals

I mean, if you're immersed in learning things about music and drama, i'm pretty sure you'll stumble into musicals eventually. so aside from being kind of a loner in high school, he was most likely a theater kid. and i can see him putting on little musicals in his room.

2. He sings while he cooks/showers

I feel like this one is very mundane and domestic but please think about this: imagine any artem ship, your pick idc it just has to include artem, have the character(s) you picked coming through the front door, about to shout that they're home, when they hear some humming. hm? what could that be? so they walk over, and it's artem cooking and singing softly.

or, hear me out:

artem wing singing in the shower. now, avid singers-in-showers will tell you, the acoustics in a bathroom can't be matched. you sound like a god in there. so just imagine artem wing in the shower (obligatory *bonk* of horny placed here, think of that later) starting off humming but at the end of the shower he's full on planning a show. remember the character(s) you picked in the first scenario? i want you to imagine them sitting by the door of the bathroom, listening to their beloved sing, because what is artem without being embarrassed over having a habit and the reassurance that he's wonderful for having said habit?

thanks for reading!

[jaredsbf]

need band!au winchesters where they perform at bars for money and hunt after each show to continue the high

[take-it-on-the-run]

Do I miss him or do I just miss having someone in my life that listened to me yap about whatever I was fixated on at the time

[silverware-is-interesting]

got some sketches of the band au

Note: these are not final, design's are likely going to change when i eventually clean them up. they all technically have 2 outfits (onstage n offstage) these are just the onstage fits

idk what to make the tag for this au tbh "kinitopet band au" seems kinda boring... ANYWAYS! Have a terrible overview of the concept so far. n the band members too ig

Meet the KinitoBAND (placeholder name while i think, i'm open to suggestions though). They're a rather niche yet beloved band who play a multitude of different genres. all of their songs have a rather upbeat nature, or, they used to. lately they've been leaning more into rock and sometimes it just gets a little... strange... wonder why that is? they're actually more like vocaloids(???) that are programmed like Kinito with the react response algorithm (Kinito's i more advanced, but they've all got it) so if they ever did interact it'd be alright. the programmer (Sonny C) had initially only meant for there to be a vocalist but there was a decision somewhere to make a band (so there's a drummer and a guitarist too)

Let's get into the characters

Kinito The vocalist + tech Kinito is a fan-favourite, to be expected of the one who is always in view front 'n center. personality-wise he's similar to his canon counterpart, just a bit (emphasis on bit) more chill. i've imagined him to get a little... parasocial with his fans who probably just went for the music. he has a bit of a persona on stage, you could say. he's more energetic and in general might be a little more aggressive than usual, especially lately.

Sam The drummer Sam isn't quite as popular as Kinito, but he's got quite a few fans who might not gravitate towards Kinito like almost all the promotional material wants you to or people who like the drums. personality - Sam has a calm, almost 'cool guy' demeanor. he acts relitivley the same on and off stage. Jade the guitarist Jade, unfortunately, is the least popular member of the band. She's got a couple devoted fans, but noticeably less than the others. just as intended. personality- she's quite resourceful and the most upfront about things of the band. she's generally louder than the others, not on purpose, she's just not the best at maintain a good speaking volume.

[samdeancrimespree]

it’s time to overanalyze the impala destruction scene <3 with actual screencaps this time. my analysis of the shot will be Above the screencap. hopefully that makes sense

so sam tries once again to talk to dean about dad. dean yells at him again for suddenly wanting to do what dad would’ve wanted and sam opens up to him about feeling guilty. then sam says he’s dealing with dads death, but dean isn’t. dean doesn’t say anything, just looks at him like This.

we don’t know yet, what john said to dean before he died. but it’s hanging over dean. i think sam’s reaction to dad’s death makes dean want to keep johns words a secret even more. if he tells sam that’s what dad wanted, sam might go along with it.

every time someone brings up john, dean hears his words again, and he feels even worse. he can’t deal with dads death because that means acknowledging what he said, and it’s just too much. he already lost dad, he can’t lose sam too.

sam says “i’ll leave you alone.” and walks away. we only hear a few steps, but that might just be for clarity. who knows. or he just. took a few steps then stopped.

either way, dean turns around and calmly picks up a crowbar. he smashes the window of a random car. takes a few breaths.

as he turns around, he looks up from the ground. looks at something in front of him. it seems for a second like he’s going to stop.

then he looks down at the impala. he glances back up, just for a second. right where sam was standing before. it looks like he’s making sure sam is watching him. you want me to deal with it? fine.

“next time someone asks me if i’m okay, i’m gonna start throwing punches.”

so he goes crazy on the impala. we all know that part.

he destroys the car right after he fixes it. specifically the trunk of the car, where they keep their hunting arsenal. maybe that was just the closest part, or maybe he’s had enough of his family dying because of hunting. he didn’t want to find the demon if it meant sam would die, but now sam might die anyway. no matter what he does, the car/his family will be destroyed. he can’t fix it, and it’s futile to even try. all his work, all the time and love he put into sam might have been worthless.

when he finally stops, he looks wrecked. this is the most emotion he’s allowed himself since dad died.

this is the last shot of the episode. him staring for a good 10 seconds, still on that same eyeline. he seems like he’s looking at something.

he lets himself look sad for a second, but he doesn’t turn away like he normally would. he wants sam to see. this was all for him. it’s like… there. i’m upset. was that enough? can you stop asking now?

then his expression hardens, shutting down and covering his emotions again. it’s like he’s warning sam. dean can’t be sad, only angry. only destructive. this time, it’s the car. next time, it might be sam. the two things he’s supposed to look after, both ruined. and dad isn’t here to fix it. dean has to figure it out on his own.

it looks like he’s asking sam to just leave it alone. don’t ask me about this. i can’t talk about it. and for now, sam believes it’s just about dad dying.

and then the episode ends. i genuinely cannot tell if im supposed to think sam is there or not. but like its the same eyeline!!! and the shot is pushed in and to the right!! sam could be standing in the same spot for all we know !! also what else would he be having a silent convo with in bobby’s junkyard? the dog? his own reflection? the only thing that makes sense to me is that sam is there. that he’s doing this For sam. maybe this is something everyone noticed but me until rn but. im going insane

[noirgasmweetheart]

"Casablanca" in (vomitable) color

You are not looking at a fan's armature hobbyist project, nor something AI generated. This is the official, professional colorization by Ted Turner's company, unleashed on the unsuspecting public in 1988.

I want you all to share in my pain.

The very first image we're greeted with is this lollypop logo:

...my thoughts exactly.

Look at the laziness of this coloring job. It's like they selected colors at random, and just covered characters' entire outfits in them. My amateur Photoshop colorizations from college had more thought put into them!

But it gets worse.

...from Sam's "Rocky Horror" worthy suit...

...to Captain Renault's Fruit-by-the-Foot ribbons, to...

Ugarte contemplating whether his cheese curd suit was appropriate for Rick's Cafe.

"Signor Ugarte, you are under arrest for wearing that...thing."

But Ugarte's not the only one who looks like a bottle of mustard. Someone in the coloring department really loved that ugly shade of Craft yellow.

...is this Casablanca, or the Wisconsin Cheese Festival?

Because of that one line about Ilsa wearing blue on the day the Nazis marched into France, the color supervisor decided that Ilsa should only wear blue--except of course, for her cheese blouse previously shown.

A PROFESSIONAL. COLORING JOB.

[saltwaterburns]

what seems to be my type? i can't figure it out for the love of god! 😕

[velvetjune]

the chapter songs in Alan Wake 2,, flawless

[drondskaath]

Bongripper | Empty | 2024

American Instrumental Stoner/Sludge/Doom Metal

Artwork by Sam Alcarez

[alltoounwellll]

sorry didn't mean to be nosy with my previous ask lol was just curious which fandoms were you've been active in? was it just marauders/harry potter?

noooo don’t worry at all!!! lucky for you I love to overshare hahahaha

- this started as a Percy Jackson blog, I believe the books were still coming out at the time but I was also in like middle school and I had no idea what I was doing

- I’m also pretty sure I spent some time interacting with the pre-movies Hunger Games fandom here as well

- The Mortal Instruments was a big one too

- moved on to the The Vampire Diaries

- somewhere in between all this I briefly interacted with marvel stuff

- spent a loooooooooong time in the Supernatural fandom (and Timeless and The Boys by association) until that awful ending that we do not speak about … this was honestly a wild and riveting experience, that fandom is something else

- and now I am here in my maurauders fixation (that will likely never go away) and for the first time I feel like actually really comfortable to be here interacting with fandom 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

thanks for the q <3