New communication alternatives should be explored by the technology and scientific colossi, as recently demonstrated by NASA's collaboration with the Twitter service that allowed subscribers to receive short memos on the Phoenix Mars Lander's state. This is also an outstanding example of openness to the pub... |
8 December 2008
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Here, on Earth, opal comes in many forms and compositions, from scarcer, more precious ones, to the more common. But none of these would ever dare to compete against a tiny fragment of the material recently discovered on Mars by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and confirmed by the Spirit rover, on of the two rovers t... |
29 October 2008
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The technicians in charge of the state and proper functioning of the Phoenix Mars Lander (PML) have begun the slow process of the machinery's euthanasia, turning its four heaters off one by one, starting last Tuesday. The process will go on for the following few weeks until the robotic device will eventuall... |
29 October 2008
11:08 GMT |
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The Mars Polar Lander was a robotic mission to Mars, scheduled to land near the south polar region of the Red Planet and conduct scientific investigations related to the clime, the soil and the ice in that respective area. In 1999, the probe finally reached Mars and began its descent towards the surface. Contact was ... |
13 May 2008
06:52 GMT |
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