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20230319_zia_c218_010 March 19, 2023, United States: This image shows: This illustration shows NASAâ??s Dragonfly rotorcraft-lander approaching a site on Saturnâ??s exotic moon, Titan. Taking advantage of Titanâ??s dense atmosphere and low gravity, Dragonfly will explore dozens of locations across the icy world, sampling and measuring the compositions of Titan's organic surface materials to characterize the habitability of Titanâ??s environment and investigate the progression of prebiotic chemistry...NASA has revealed a craft that will help scientists discover new information about the chemistry of Saturnâ??s moon Titan..The space agencyâ??s mission to Saturnâ??s giant moon is due to launch in 2027. When it arrives in the mid-2030s, it will begin a journey of discovery that could bring about a new understanding of the development of life in the universe. .This mission, called Dragonfly, will carry an instrument called the Dragonfly Mass Spectrometer (DraMS), designed to help scientists hone in on the chemistry at work on Titan. It may also shed light on the kinds of chemical steps that occurred on Earth that ultimately led to the formation of life, called prebiotic chemistry..Titan's abundant complex carbon-rich chemistry, interior ocean, and past presence of liquid water on the surface make it an ideal destination to study prebiotic chemical processes and the potential habitability of an extraterrestrial environment..DraMS will allow scientists back on Earth to remotely study the chemical makeup of the Titanian surface. .â??We want to know if the type of chemistry that could be important for early pre-biochemical systems on Earth is taking place on Titan,â? explains Dr. Melissa Trainer of NASAâ??s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland..Trainer is a planetary scientist and astrobiologist who specializes in Titan and is one of the Dragonfly missionâ??s deputy principal investigators. She is also l (Credit Image: © Cover Ima

LON144745 GB. England. London. The Goldsmiths' Centre in Britton Street Clerkenwell.The Centre is a visionary new development that will become a hub for members of the Jewellery, Silversmithing and Allied Trades, the local community and the general public - a unique space in which to work, learn and relax. It lives and breathes creativity and craftsmanship, providing facilities of the highest standard. It has a single primary aim: to advance and develop art, craft, design and artisan skills in particular, but not exclusively, for goldsmiths.The new Centre will provide more than just a new home for goldsmiths. It will establish a professional environment in which members of the trade can acquire new skills or improve existing ones through the newly established Goldsmiths' Institute, the educational element of the Charity. The Centre will offer the public an insight into the work of a goldsmith or jeweller and foster greater interest in the industry as a whole.The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths is one of the Great Twelve Livery Companies of the City of London.The Company, which originates from the twelfth century, received a Royal Charter in 1327 and ranks fifth in the order of precedence of City Livery.The Company was established as a medieval guild for the goldsmith trade, and over time became responsible for silversmiths and jewellers too. Only those clothed with the livery of the Company were licenced to trade such precious commodities within the bounds of the City. Whilst this arrangement maintained standards, it also became restrictive in an ever increasing global market.The word hallmarking derives from the fact that precious metals were officially inspected and marked at Goldsmiths' Hall, the Company's HQ. Today, the Company is one of the few Livery Companies still to play a formal role in its ancient trade. Until the late 20th-century, the Company retained paramount responsibility for hallmarking platinum, gold and silver. The Goldsmiths' Company oversees the London Assay Office, where objects made of precious metals are tested for purity, and then marked with an official symbol should they pass the necessary tests. They are also responsible for checking the validity of British coinage.2012

alb5568248 Built by the Fiat-Mitsu Manufacturing Consortium, Scavengers are designed to locate and dismantle derelict spacecraft that have been abandoned or damaged beyond repair. While they have been adapted to a variety of jobs, one variant of these purpose-built ships has no human crew, instead they are guided by an advanced AI system, that processes the input from the sensors and determines the likeliest place for the harvesting of wreckage. These ships received the name Vultures. If there are no sources of scrap metal nearby, their secondary commands are to engage in low-impact asteroid mining. The Vultures' AI controllers, while sufficiently advanced to do mining and scavenging work, have trouble dealing with anything more complicated.. The problem arises when the Vultures have exhausted their local work area of wreckage sources, and have difficulty locating any promising areas for mining. Then they begin to hunt down and take apart craft that are still in near working order, or craft that have broadcast even the most minor of error messages. This has caused serious problems in many systems, since over the last 300 years, this sector has seen a population explosion. Now passenger or cargo vessels breaking down in the midst of a run are a fairly common occurence here; enough so that the number of passengers reporting a sighting of, or worse an encounter with, these Vultures has skyrocketed. In other systems, when a vessel suffers a problem of any sort, they merely have to send a distress signal to the nearest port, and shortly thereafter they will be found by the ISG. Here in the former hinterlands though, space has become infested with the Vultures. If one or more happens to intercept a distress signal directed at a port, the Vultures will interpret it as a call to action and proceed at full speed to the location and begin dissassembling. When a Vulture is sighted, the passengers must rely on their own spacecrafts capabilities, and the skills of their pilots to escape with their lives, or they will be left adrift in a scrap metal debris field.