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The four-year mission in the harsh Martian environment is leaving yet another imprint on one of NASA's twin rovers. While Spirit is currently hibernating in the northern region of the planet, Opportunity is still on route to exploring Victoria Crater's Cape Verde. The voyage to the cliff was recently stoppe... |
25 April 2008
03:04 GMT |
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Well, it seems that NASA 'did it again', so to say. Just recently the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, responsible for the Mars Exploration Rover program, was ordered to apply a budget cut of 4 million US dollars for the 2008 fiscal year. Yet another cut was scheduled for the 2009, totaling 8 million ... |
26 March 2008
04:00 GMT |
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Although still healthy and working round the clock of the surface of the Red Planet, NASA's twin rovers Spirit and Opportunity may soon find themselves hibernating for a undefined amount of time. If mechanical and software problems won't disable them permanently, NASA will surely do so. According to a NASA ... |
25 March 2008
05:11 GMT |
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West of Sumatra, away from the main trade routes, Mentawai Islands seem ideal for maintaining a life style known in other places 10,000 years ago. The largest island of the group is Siberut, located at 10 hours of boat traveling from Sumatra. Siberut is 110 km (68 mi) long and 50 km (30 mi) wide. Until the beginning ... |
17 March 2008
17:26 GMT |
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We can all understand Jobs' recent position revealed in a "private communication" in which Apple's CEO acknowledges "the beating his company's shares have taken during this time of economic uncertainty," yet remains "confident that investors would inevitably recoup their losses and then some," accordin... |
29 January 2008
05:08 GMT |
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No, it's not a fake! Just to clear it out, this image is not some Photoshop creation. In fact, the picture comes directly from NASA, and shows a humanly figure looking extremely similar to a female, holding her arm in the air like it is signaling a car to stop. On the other hand, NASA only sees a rock formation ... |
23 January 2008
04:05 GMT |
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Dust is plenty, however more electric power would be pretty nice, since electronics don't run on 'dirt power'. That is true, but so is the following affirmation: 90 is not equal to 1,460! 1,460 days have passed since the Martian rover Spirit landed on the surface of the Red Planet, meaning exactly four... |
4 January 2008
09:32 GMT |
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Uncertainty hovers over Spirit, as it 'fights' for its 'life' on the surface of Mars, in order to reach the designated spot that would ensure its necessary power to remain operational over the coming Martian winter. To improve the chances that in the following winters the twin rovers, Spirit and O... |
17 December 2007
05:45 GMT |
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If it had been a human being, it would have been more than a thousands years old. It got sand blasted, it lost a limb, multiple instrument functions failed, it got stuck in loose soil, and it is still sprinting for its life. However, this might be Spirit's last drive across the surface of the Red Planet, as the ... |
11 December 2007
07:49 GMT |
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The Martian rover Spirit has finally freed itself from the patch of loose soil, in which it had remained stuck for about two weeks, and it might encounter similar terrain in its journey towards a spot that will ensure the necessary amount of sunlight. As a result of a sand storm that raged on the Mars surface, for ab... |
5 December 2007
02:50 GMT |
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Designed to operate for only 90 days, driving across the red surface for almost four years and experiencing multiple mechanical failures, Spirit now hits another problem. While heading towards a slop which was supposed to ensure the optimal angle for collecting sunlight, the rover got stuck in what NASA thinks might ... |
28 November 2007
03:57 GMT |
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We all love a good "rags to riches" story once in a while - but over the past years (let's say over the past decade to make it a nice round interval and give us a chance to offer plenty of examples) we've all seen the disastrous vicious circle in which most of the singers who experience a sudden shoot to fa... |
19 November 2007
04:41 GMT |
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Two of NASA's rovers present on the surface of Mars experience instruments failure after four years of activity. Though the original mission in which the rovers, Opportunity and its twin Spirit, were supposed to study the surface of the Red Planet was scheduled for only 90 days, NASA managed to extend it to almo... |
19 November 2007
03:07 GMT |
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In an African forest, a man heads to a tree bearing an ax. He has to accomplish a religious mission, done in Africa countless times along the millennia. Inside the tree lives a deeply respected spirit. To be protected against its rage, the man has first visited a wizard. Than he underwent a purification ceremony and... |
29 October 2007
15:06 GMT |
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NASA's two Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, landed on the red planet in 2003, to explore the Martian surface and geology. Despite all the technical and atmospheric difficulties they have encountered in their missions, they kept going and were the main actors in a planetary science revolution.They have been ... |
25 July 2007
08:17 GMT |
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The dust storm on Mars has been going on for nearly a month and is now blocking around 85 to 90 percent of all sunlight to the surface. If it doesn't calm down in more than two weeks, the two NASA rovers on the surface, Spirit and Opportunity, will run out of power and will go permanently offline.Scientists don... |
21 July 2007
05:01 GMT |
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