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Experts operating the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) announce that the orbiter was recently able to observe two defunct Martian missions from its orbital perch. The Mars Exploration Rover Spirit and the Phoenix Mars Lander completed both of their missions successfully.
Spirit, or MER-A, has been inactive since 20... |
10 February 2012
02:35 GMT |
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The latest malicious campaign begins at the point where cybercriminals compromise a few hundred websites based on WordPress 3.2.1 and alter them to redirect visitors to a domain that serves the malicious Phoenix Exploit Kit. M86 Security Labs researchers came across around four hundred of these sites. Using a cleve... |
31 January 2012
09:49 GMT |
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HP is showing that it definitely isn't leaving the PC market by unleashing what is supposed to be the fastest gaming desktop it has ever made.
Given how quickly CPUs and graphics products, not to mention RAM, have advanced over the past year, this is easy to believe.
The product bears the name of Pavilion HP... |
4 January 2012
04:05 GMT |
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One possible method of fighting against debris clogging up Earth's low orbit would be to cannibalize defunct satellites for components that are still active, valuable, and operational. These parts could then be assembled into new spacecraft, a new proposal says.
The US Department of Defense's (DOD) Defense... |
21 October 2011
02:59 GMT |
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DotA is short for Defense of the Ancients, one of the most popular custom made maps for Warcraft III. To give players a better understanding of this complex and sometimes complicated game here is a hero guide.Icarus the Phoenix was first introduced to DotA as an awesome secret boss in version 6.69. It later became a... |
4 August 2011
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Blizzard Entertainment has put up a set of job recruitment announcements on its official career portal page that seek to attract software engineers for a new video game project, which has not been officially announced and does not seem to have a name yet. The ads say Blizzard Entertainment is “on the hunt for ... |
15 April 2011
08:41 GMT |
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In the midst of various April Fools jokes, it seems that G.Skill wants to preserve the semblance of normality necessary for one's sanity, so it came out and released a new member for its Phoenix series of SSDs.As NAND Flash memory moves to more advanced manufacturing processors, it becomes more energy efficient... |
1 April 2011
05:23 GMT |
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The age of undersized computer systems seems to actually be upon us, as a team of scientists from the University of Michigan have actually created a chip measuring a single cubic millimeter.The problem with making small computer systems is that, besides the fact that they can only pack so much processing power, they... |
24 February 2011
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A launch schedule leak from the Chinese division of Blizzard suggests that the company has two entirely new games in development, one called Titan and set to arrive at some point in 2014 and another titled Starcraft 2: phoenix which could come alongside the first expansion for Starcraft 2, while also showing plans fo... |
9 December 2010
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Researchers at NASA have just been awarded new funds to study data that has been collected by the space agency's Phoenix Mars Lander before the harsh conditions on Mars subdued it.Engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, who managed the lander's mission, lost contact with t... |
31 August 2010
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A recent image obtained by NASA shows that a young crater on the Martian surface still contains water-ice, a discovery that may shed more light on the planet's troubled past.The data were collected using the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbit... |
28 August 2010
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Over the past five months, researchers using the Mars Odyssey orbiter have been performing a series of listening campaigns near the Martian north pole. The goal was to detect signals that may have been produced by the Phoenix Mars Lander, a spacecraft that arrived at the Red Planet in 2008, but which froze over five ... |
25 May 2010
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Scientists at NASA announce that they will be conducting a final attempt to pick up potential radio signals emitted by the presumably-defunct Phoenix Mars Lander. The spacecraft arrived at the Red Planet in 2008, and mission managers lost contact with it two months after it exceeded its initially-planned mission time... |
14 May 2010
06:44 GMT |
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Those that have been keeping track of the developments on the SSD market, being eager to see how soon solid state drives will get mainstream prices, likely know of the number of SandForce-enabled drives that should flood the market shortly. G.Skill is one company that adopted this highly capable controller in its SSD... |
30 April 2010
09:01 GMT |
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In September 2008, NASA lost contact with its Phoenix Mars Lander robot, a scientific platform deployed at high latitudes on Mars. Its goal was to search for water-ice deposits, and also to collect new data about the weather patterns and phenomena present in its area. Two months after its originally-planned, three-mo... |
14 April 2010
10:15 GMT |
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In late 2008, mission managers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, lost contact with the Phoenix Mars Lander. This is the science platform that managed to establish for a fact that water-ice exists at high northern latitudes on Mars. The machine remained operational for longer than i... |
6 April 2010
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At this point, officials at NASA are conducting a second listening campaign on Mars, for any possible signals that a hypothetically resurrected Mars Phoenix Lander may give off. Engineers at the American space agency are using their Mars Odyssey spacecraft for this job. The orbiter is being diverted from its regular ... |
26 February 2010
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Experts operating the NASA Mars Odyssey orbiter say that the first days of the new listening campaign for radio signals sent by the Phoenix lander have yielded no results. The space agency is hopeful that the spacecraft which landed on the Red Planet in 2008 will be able to use its built-in Lazarus mode to reactivate... |
24 February 2010
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The NASA Mars Odyssey orbiter has started listening for weak radio signals that could be emanating from the frozen Phoenix lander, near the planet's North Pole. Thus far, experts say that there has been no sign that the robot has awaken from its slumber over the Martian winter. In fact, scientists say, it's... |
21 January 2010
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Starting today, January 18, the NASA Mars Odyssey orbiter around the Red Planet will start listening to possible signals coming in from the Phoenix Mars Lander. Some experts at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) believe that the station may become active this Martian spring, seeing how most of the winter is behind i... |
18 January 2010
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Officials at NASA are hopeful that they will be able to restore some kind of communications with the Phoenix Mars Lander. The robot was deployed on the surface of the Red Planet in 2008, and managed to exceed its alloted life time. However, unlike the MER components Spirit and Opportunity, it eventually succumbed to ... |
12 January 2010
09:44 GMT |
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The Phoenix lander mission to the Red Planet arrived in the northern regions of Mars in 2008, and immediately started conducting its studies, which were aimed at discovering water-ice beneath the surface. It didn't take long for it to discover the stuff, as, during landing, its “feet” dug into ice on... |
18 November 2009
03:56 GMT |
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The Phoenix Mars Lander was a NASA mission that launched to the Red Planet on August 4, 2007, aboard the Delta II 7925 vehicle. It consisted of a robotic station that was to conduct scientific experiments on Mars, and study surface chemistry, weather patterns, atmospheric conditions, and the landscape too. Originally... |
5 November 2009
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Whenever people think of the Red Planet, what usually jumps to mind are the arid, barren and sandy landscapes that have been widely circulated over the years in NASA images. But the reality of the Martian surface is a bit different than widely believed, a fact that was evidenced by the last readings sent back by the ... |
3 July 2009
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A growing number of space experts believe that they may have been going about finding life on Mars the wrong way. They argue that landers such as the twin Vikings and the Phoenix Mars Lander may have unwillingly destroyed the very chemicals they were looking for in the Martian soil, by heating them up in their intern... |
25 May 2009
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Phoenix International Systems has announced today the introduction of a new storage solution, specifically tailored to meet the performance requirements of the military, aerospace and industrial applications. The company's new solution comes as a VME data storage plug-in blade, based on the new VS1-250-SSD Seria... |
21 May 2009
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Professor Peter Smith is the University of Arizona expert who led NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission, which landed on the Red Planet on May 25th, 2008. Speaking at the University of Delaware on April 16th, his lecture, Journey of the Phoenix, captivated the audience with its contents, as well as with the idea that the ... |
22 April 2009
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According to the latest researches coming in from NASA, the Phoenix Mars Lander may have descended right in the middle of a terrain that is extremely microbe-friendly. The most recent investigations seem to hint at the fact that the entire region, just below the planet's North Pole, is or was able to sustain lif... |
31 March 2009
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The 40th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC), held in Woodlands, Texas, saw an increased interest in the planet Mars, with a team of researchers even proposing that our neighbor might have small briny lakes under the surface, where higher temperatures allowed water to liquefy. The idea came as a result of t... |
25 March 2009
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Experts from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander team have announced recently that they may have just discovered the first evidence of liquid water on the Red Planet. According to pictures sent back by the spacecraft, one of the machine's legs is covered with what appear to be tiny droplets of liquid. Over the weeks... |
18 February 2009
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Philips unveiled new versions of its widely popular mobile phone Philips Xenium 9 @ 9q, as a special offering for the holiday season. The newly-announced models are called Dragon and Phoenix, and the exquisite drawings featured by the shell are rather meant to turn the device into a stylish accessory.In addition, the... |
29 December 2008
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Now that the Phoenix Mars Lander is defunct and the mission is officially over beyond all hope, scientists have been able to focus on the data that the device has collected and relayed to us. The main source of interest is represented by the water found in the region of the landing site, but a series of examinations ... |
16 December 2008
08:31 GMT |
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It seems that people knew from the very beginning that the doors of the Phoenix Mars Lander's Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer (TEGA) instruments were flawed from the design phase. This gave scientists a lot of headaches during the extended mission and, if they had been designed correctly in the first place, per... |
15 December 2008
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You must be thinking that the poor lander has been pronounced dead several times now and you're right to some extent. The difference is that, this time, it's for good. Although hopes for any sign of communication with the brave lander were extremely low, NASA technicians still made a few more attempts to li... |
2 December 2008
04:53 GMT |
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It seems that for the Phoenix Lander, the spacecraft many have come to be attached to, the end is indeed nigh. Technicians lost contact with the craft on November 2nd, but hoped to be able to resume communication with the lander. But it appears that this is no longer possible, since the Sun does not provide enough en... |
11 November 2008
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One week ago, the Robotic Arm of the Phoenix Lander gathered and stored the 6th sample of Martian soil. Originally, the mission coordinators estimated that only 3 would be collected. But, as the mission has surpassed even the boldest of predictions since its May 25 landing on Mars (for 3 months, as it was scheduled)... |
21 October 2008
08:30 GMT |
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Following the resounding success of the Mars Phoenix Lander's mission, its three main project leaders were invited to New York's Popular Mechanics' Breakthrough conference in order to shed more light on the gathered data and on what future similar missions may expect to discover.The mission of NASA... |
17 October 2008
09:22 GMT |
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More than two months after NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander touched down on the north polar plains of the Red Planet, the pile of circumstantial evidence pointing towards the presence of water was put aside and replaced with the first clear analysis showing that water indeed exists on Mars. In a report published yeste... |
1 August 2008
02:51 GMT |
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After nearly a week of scraping soil and icy material off the surface of the Red Planet, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander collected a sample and attempted to deliver it to the TEGA instrument. However, little soil of the total of 3 cubic centimeters of material it had gathered made it to the analyzer, images showing t... |
28 July 2008
04:28 GMT |
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Mission controllers kept NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander in full operational mode during the Martian night on Monday in order to coordinate it with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to make detailed observations in the atmosphere of the Red Planet. The lander monitored changes in the lower atmosphere with the help of i... |
23 July 2008
03:08 GMT |
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Laboratory tests carried out on Earth showed that the Phoenix Mars Lander needs to expose more of the ice bellow the dusty layer on the surface of the planet if researchers want to collect a proper sample for analysis. As a result, the robotic arm of the spacecraft was instructed on Monday to extend an already dug up... |
16 July 2008
04:36 GMT |
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NASA confirmed that the robotic arm of the Phoenix Mars Lander delivered its second sample for analysis to the wet chemistry laboratory of the spacecraft. While the first sample test of the lander failed to detect any chemicals that may be essential to the appearance and evolution of life as we know it on the Red Pla... |
8 July 2008
10:29 GMT |
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The first investigation of the Phoenix Mars Lander on the Martian soil collected from its surroundings failed to detect any chemicals that may be essential to life at all, and although another seven single-use test ovens are expecting further analysis, the next experiment could just as well be the last one for the sp... |
3 July 2008
06:21 GMT |
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After another couple of days of delay related to the unsuccessful attempt to deliver soil samples to the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer, NASA reported that the Phoenix Mars Lander was again back on schedule and pursuing the primary tasks of its mission. In a press conference yesterday, mission controllers said that... |
11 June 2008
02:45 GMT |
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The mission of the Phoenix Mars Lander seems to have hit a snag last week after soil samples delivered by the robotic arm of the spacecraft failed to pass through the screen of the test oven of the Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer instrument. The TEGA instrument is equipped with seven other such ovens, which could po... |
10 June 2008
06:50 GMT |
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The Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer instrument, or TEGA for short, on board the Phoenix Mars Lander, failed to pass its first sample test after the Martian soil delivered by the robotic arm of the lander was unable to reach the instrument. Mission controllers said on Saturday that they would try to determine what we... |
9 June 2008
03:38 GMT |
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Since most of us will probably never fly into space, NASA will provide you with the next best thing. A chance to send your name into space and have it spinning around that big chunk of rock orbiting Earth, we call the Moon. Until June 27, 2008 anyone willing to subscribe in the 'Name to the Moon' program ca... |
6 June 2008
05:06 GMT |
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This is the highest resolution image ever sent back to Earth by the Phoenix Mars Lander featuring dust and sand particles. The image was captured by the camera of the optical microscope instrument on board the spacecraft and shows particles of dust as small as one-tenth of the diameter of the human hair. The mission ... |
6 June 2008
03:19 GMT |
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The mission controllers of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander decided to delay the beginning of the digging operations for a day in order to better learn how to scoop samples of soil from the Martian surface. The lander was scheduled to start gathering soil sample for analysis today, but they decided that Phoenix must f... |
4 June 2008
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Phoenix Mars Lander, designed to carry NASA's 420 million US dollar three month mission to the Red Planet, which touched down on the surface just a little over a week ago, made its first dig test in the Martian soil on Sunday with the 2.4 meter long robotic arm, revealing bright white bits of material that could... |
3 June 2008
05:57 GMT |
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