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Mars Had Lakes During the Hesperian Epoch

During a period of time extending from 3.7 to 3 billion years ago, the Martian surface was dotted by lakes made up of liquid water, most likely originating in melted ice. The new study that came to these conclusions proposes that this is a significant finding for the development of life on the planet.Long ago, the Re...

1 June 2011
04:56 GMT

Viking Solid State Drives Transfer Data at 520 MB/s

It looks like NAND Flash-based storage devices really are using a bunch of different form factors, as evidenced by the very non-ordinary line that Viking Modular Solutions has put together.On the solid state drive market, the most common storage devices of this type are those that share the same form factors as hard...

5 April 2011
09:50 GMT

Viking May Have Found Organic Molecules on Mars

In a study that is bound to reignite the decades-old debate about whether life existed on the Red Planet in the distant past, a team of experts proposes that samples collected by the NASA Viking Mars Lander indeed contained organic molecules. Over the years, a number of investigations were conducted on these sample. ...

7 January 2011
16:01 GMT

Spirit to Break 30-Year-Long Martian Record

This Thursday will mark a momentous achievement for the Mars Exploration Rovers on the surface of the Red Planet. The rover Spirit will exceed the duration of the Viking-1 lander mission, marking the first time this is done in more than three decades. Though the robot ceased communications with Mission Control on Mar...

26 April 2010
08:45 GMT

Phoenix Mars Lander Prepares for Landing

In anticipation of the expected landing of the Phoenix Mars Lander on 25 May, NASA engineers applied a trajectory correction to the flight path. Further modifications to the flight path are expected after the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter photographs the designated landing area. The Phoenix spacecraft will most likely ...

11 April 2008
10:59 GMT

The Largest Early Treasure of the Swedish Vikings

Those Vikings were like working bees. A Viking treasure made of 472 ancient silver coins was found near Sweden's main international airport, Arlanda, Stockholm, last week, showing that Vikings used foreign currency much earlier than previously believed. The 1,150-year-old treasure comprises mainly Arabic coins a...

11 April 2008
03:57 GMT

Viking Women Wore Sexy Outfits!

Viking men may have been cruel warriors, but their women were really hot. Viking women wore colored-silk gowns embellished with metallic breast coverings and long trains. This type of wardrobe was found in a tomb from the 10th century discovered in the Pskov region (Russia), close to Novgorod. "Now we can say the pre...

27 February 2008
03:06 GMT

1,000 mi (1,600 km) Viking Expedition Recreated

If we take a look at modern-day Danish people, they do not seem to resemble their ancestors, the bloody Viking warriors. Still, a modern day replica of a Viking ship has managed to re-create the route of the ancient Vikings, entering Dublin's harbor on Tuesday, after an arduous 1,000-mile (1,600 km) journey from...

16 August 2007
03:20 GMT

The Geographical Discoveries Made by Vikings

From the end of the 8th century till the end of the 10th, the Norsemen caused tremendous terror among those living on the shores of Western Europe, from Baltic Sea to Scotland, Ireland and northwestern France. Their ships went to Spain, North Africa, Black Sea, Caspian Sea and by the 11th century, Vikings detained l...

14 August 2007
14:06 GMT

Viking Attacks and the Moorish Spain

Pirates…wild…bloody barbarians. This is how the Vikings were seen by their contemporaneous southern Europeans, who during the 9th and 10th centuries suffered their pillaging expeditions. Still, these Northern people also left a rich culture and a developed trade network till Persia and discovered America 500 years be...

13 August 2007
13:56 GMT

An Over $ 1.5 Million Viking Treasure Found in England!

Vikings were like ants: raided everybody and everything and buried the loot for better times. And as they could all die during their bravery acts, some Viking treasures remained hidden till nowadays. Now one of the biggest Viking treasures ever has been found on an English farm by a father-son team of treasure hunter...

20 July 2007
03:00 GMT

How Did The Vikings Discover America?

Who discovered America? When Columbus returned from the Antilles in 1493, he was not the first European to have stepped in the New World. It seems that, 500 years before, a group of blond Scandinavians had done it. It happened during the Viking era, when these sailors and warriors were roaming northern Africa, east...

20 March 2007
11:11 GMT


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