Oil, Satellites and Raman Spectroscopy.

Oil

David Lehrberg has succeeded in supplementing our activities with a bio diesel conversion system that turns used fry oil into fuel for a car with the appropriate engine. Mega Bites, the cafe here on base has agreed to supply our group with their used oil.

Satellites

Our group has agreed to support the NEO (Near earth object) android hack satellite group we are going to share OpenLab space with. We will help them design, program and fly a satellite mission using a hacked android handset.

Raman Spectroscopy

We are working with Dr's Bin Chen and Chris Mckay, and a local company named Crystal Research Inc. on a phase II SBIR proposal to mount a microtized Raman Spectrometer to a rover.

Here are some links in case that last was incomprehensible:

http://www.sbir.gov/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raman_spectroscopy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_McKay_(planetary_scientist)

http://www.eocrystal.com/