Web Watch
DOI: 10.1063/1.1650225
http://www.exploratorium.edu/marsrover
By agreement with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Exploratorium will show live webcasts beamed down from the Martian surface by NASA’s Spirit rover. The webcasts begin on 4 January 2004; the Exploratorium’s Exploring Mars exhibit kicks off a month earlier on 1 December.
http://www.stonehengelaserscan.org
At Stonehenge Laser Scans you can learn what three-dimensional laser scanning has revealed about the mysterious 4300-year-old relic. In particular, the Web site describes the discovery, thanks to the scans, of carvings too faint to see with the naked eye.
http://www.lassp.cornell.edu/sethna/Tweed/What_Are_Martensites.html
What are Martensites? If you don’t know, or would like to know more about the phase-hopping, industrially important materials, then visit the illustrated online tutorial put together by Cornell University’s Jim Sethna.
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