Why is Methane Seeping on Mars?

The most surprising revelation from NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover — that methane is seeping from the surface of Gale Crater — has scientists scratching their heads.

https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/planets/mars/why-is-methane-seeping-on-mars-nasa-scientists-have-new-ideas/

#Mars #curiosity #rover #methane #GaleCrater #geology #geophysics #regolith #soil #salt #chemistry #astrodon #space #science #STEM

Why is Methane Seeping on Mars? NASA Scientists Have New Ideas - NASA Science

The most surprising revelation from NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover — that methane is seeping from the surface of Gale Crater — has scientists scratching their heads. Living creatures produce most of the methane on Earth.

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When #security matters: working with #Qubes OS at the #Guardian

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/info/2024/apr/04/when-security-matters-working-with-qubes-os-at-the-guardian

Configuring a Qubes workstation was a new challenge for the team as we abandoned years of experience writing Infrastructure as Code for the cloud and started learning how to write #Salt #configuration. Salt (also know as SaltStack) is a management engine available by default in Qubes.

#cybersecurity #news #journalism #linux #technology #software #securedrop

When security matters: working with Qubes OS at the Guardian

The latest version of the whistleblowing platform SecureDrop runs on the Qubes operating system. At the Guardian we used the Salt management engine to set up a Qubes environment where journalists could safely interrogate sensitive documents.

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