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Federal Tipoffs Involving New Mexico Newsletter for Friday August 07, 2020 ( 2 items )  

Los Alamos National Laboratory: Take a Guided 'Tour' of SuperCam on the New Mars Rover
LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, Aug. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: NASA's new Perseverance rover, which just started its seven-month journey to Mars, carries on board what is likely the most versatile instrument ever created to understand the planet's past habitability: SuperCam--and a new podcast will tell listeners all about it. "SuperCam sits on the rover's mast and has a laser that can zap rocks up to 25 feet away," said Roge  more

Sandia National Laboratories: Basic Laws of Physics Spruce Up Machine Learning
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Aug. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: A proposed project to help scientists use the laws of physics to view multiscale physical events with a clarity never before achieved has won an Early Career Research Program award from the Department of Energy for Sandia National Laboratories researcher Nathaniel Trask. Such work may require observations over a millionfold change in scale, with features ranging fro  more