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The already rumored Nokia Rover Internet Tablet seems to be getting closer and closer to an official announcement. The handset was spotted in the wild at the beginning of June, when a video that supposedly showed it along with other mobile phones from the Finnish handset maker surfaced, and was reported to have recei... |
10 August 2009
07:02 GMT |
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The already rumored and somehow expected Nokia N900 Internet Tablet from the Finnish mobile phone maker seems to be as real as it can be, as it has been caught on video during a presentation last October from Axel Meyer, head of Nseries design at Nokia. As reported before, although the handset hasn't been offici... |
8 June 2009
03:29 GMT |
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Over the last weekend, NASA's “old” Mars rover, Spirit, missed its regular data transmission and remained silent for the next days. This prompted an immediate reaction from the agency's staff, to rescue the long-lived robot, which is now entering its sixth year of service, despite the fact that ... |
29 January 2009
05:55 GMT |
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The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission, scheduled to take place in 2011, still lacks a proper name, the likes of NASA's existing Martian rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. In schools across the United States, every kid between the ages of 5 and 18 can submit an essay, saying what name they would like for the rov... |
24 January 2009
04:07 GMT |
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The most advanced rover ever to roam the Martian surface, the Mars Science Laboratory, is still undergoing final development stages at NASA. It has already surpassed the cost that the agency initially estimated for its building operations by a hefty amount, now engulfing more than $1.5 billion, with a final estimated... |
24 November 2008
11:41 GMT |
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Mars' hemispheres are very different in weather and even in season, given the positioning of the planet in relation to the Sun. Since its southern part is now facing the Sun, it is spring time for half of Mars, while the other half gets ready for the closing winter. This also has a big impact on science, because... |
11 November 2008
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The Small Pressurized Rover (SPR) is NASA's latest concept in terms of rovers that will wander on the surface of the Moon. Recently, a group of technicians, geologists and astronauts have been involved in a week-long demonstration of the prototype in the Arizona desert, during the 11th yearly Desert Research And... |
28 October 2008
12:21 GMT |
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In light of the recent article describing Buzz Aldrin's idea of no-return trips to Mars as being more logical and profitable, try to imagine the following situation: you are chosen to represent the pioneering mission that would help establish the first base on the red planet. Money and space are not a problem, ... |
28 October 2008
05:23 GMT |
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The ambitious project of a complex rover that was supposed to roam the surface of Mars as a mobile laboratory may now be facing extinction, devolution, or, at best, a long postponement. This is due to the harsh financial difficulties experienced by the NASA laboratory, which is not able to cope with the costs that th... |
8 October 2008
07:07 GMT |
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RoverPC X7 is the name of a new Pocket PC manufactured in Russia by RoverPC, a company that we've already heard of on several occasions. X7 is the latest device created by RoverPC and it's presented as its most powerful communicator handset. The Pocket PC runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 and does indeed bring a... |
10 July 2008
05:53 GMT |
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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
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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
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Forget about sending a nuclear powered rover to the surface of the Red Planet, NASA officials say! The mission may stop right before it even stars due to related costs rising at an alarming rate. The mission is dead in the water since previous tests have shown that the current design of the vehicle, which is supposed... |
29 February 2008
06:44 GMT |
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NASA is finally talking business and is clearly determined to put a manned mission on the surface of the Moon within the next decade and, why not, to establish a lunar base on our only natural satellite. The new lunar rover demonstrated by the NASA team during the Space Exploration Conference, which took place betwee... |
28 February 2008
09:12 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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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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Venus, along with Mars, is Earth's 'sister planet', but there's a big difference between the two. While temperature on Mars is -65 degrees Celsius on average, Venus has a temperature of about 450 degrees, due to an out of control greenhouse effect, hot enough to melt lead. The URSS and the US have... |
12 November 2007
09:15 GMT |
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The two Mars exploration rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, are each about the size of a golf cart. Their six-wheel undercarriages are designed in such a way as to allow a rover to climb over small rocks, and rotate in place. Lately, dust storms threatened to kill one of NASA's Mars rovers and stopped its twin in i... |
9 August 2007
09:03 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 two rovers on the surface of Mars are not doing very well, as the dust storm continues and is showing no signs of decreasing in intensity. Rising dust blocks sunlight from reaching the two rovers, who are now operating just above the critical energy level.NASA is worried that things could get worse. These storms... |
17 July 2007
05:07 GMT |
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The next NASA rover to go to Mars is the Mars Science Laboratory, planned to be launched in December 2009 and to land on the red planet in October 2010. The design of this rover is slightly different than that of current rovers on the surface, Spirit and Opportunity.Most likely, it will be altered, so that it will n... |
14 July 2007
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A new breed of dogs could someday be sent to Mars to explore the surface, although they are now just barely learning to walk, climb rocks and jump. These robotic dogs are funny-looking robots, but could become more versatile than current rovers.Robotic probes are used in space exploration for some time now, like the... |
9 July 2007
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The latest development of the Mars dust storm that threatened to damage the two rovers on the surface indicates it has weakened, but would not calm down, so NASA officials are forced to put the robotic probes on regular nap-time schedules to save energy.Precaution measures were necessary after the gigantic storm, co... |
7 July 2007
05:17 GMT |
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A gigantic storm, covering a large portion of the Martian surface has affected the two Mars Exploration Rovers, causing them to lose power. NASA is worried that things could get worse. These storms appear when the planet is closest to the Sun, which increases the overall temperature and produces huge winds that lift... |
5 July 2007
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NASA's Opportunity Rover is finally set to descend into the 230-foot-deep Victoria Crater on Mars to turn the page of the Red Planet called "a geologic history book" after spending the last couple of months making a clockwise trip around the crater's rim, heading for a breach called Duck Bay, said mission ... |
29 June 2007
03:32 GMT |
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The atmosphere on Mars is thinner than the one on Earth, with a surface pressure less than 1 percent that on Earth, but it is quite dusty. This doesn't prevent the planet from experiencing the largest dust storms in our solar system.Now, a gigantic storm is covering large areas of the surface, having the potent... |
28 June 2007
07:03 GMT |
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MER-B (Mars Exploration Rover - B), known as Opportunity, is the second of the two rovers of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Mission. It landed successfully at Meridiani Planum on Mars on January 25, 2004, and since then, has sent many interesting pictures of the Martian surface.Some of the most recent pictures s... |
11 June 2007
04:21 GMT |
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NASA's Opportunity Rover will soon descend into the 230-foot-deep Victoria Crater on Mars to turn the page of the Red Planet calls "a geologic history book," after spending the last couple of months making a clockwise trip around the crater's rim, heading for a breach called Duck Bay.The Opportunity missio... |
28 May 2007
05:58 GMT |
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A sample of Martian soil collected and analyzed by NASA's Spirit Rover represents the strongest evidence yet that Mars was once a wet planet. The patch underwent thorough analysis and was found to be rich in silica, a chemical compound that needs water to be produced.MER-A (Mars Exploration Rover - A), a.k.a Sp... |
22 May 2007
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On Saturday, six teams announced their presence at a contest named NASA's 2007 Regolith Excavation Challenge that was meant to put to the test some autonomous robots in a hand-to-hand competition to determine which can move the most mock lunar dirt, called regolith, in 30 minutes.At the Santa Maria Fairpark in ... |
14 May 2007
09:18 GMT |
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The next robotic probe scheduled to land on Mars is the Phoenix Mars Lander, a new rover built for the purpose of touching and analyzing Martian water for the first time. Right now it is being prepared for launch at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.As a result of the partnership of universities from the ... |
9 May 2007
03:39 GMT |
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It's been called "Home Plate" and it's a rocky outcrop presenting unusual layered features that has the shape of a baseball home plate. This weird feature on Mars' surface has puzzled astronomers ever since its discovery and now MER-A (Mars Exploration Rover - A), known as Spirit, the first of the tw... |
4 May 2007
03:56 GMT |
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The Phoenix, a fabulous mythical bird the size of an eagle, symbolizes rebirth in many ancient cultures. According to the ancient Greeks, the bird lives in Arabia, nearby a coolwell and sings a beautiful morning song. The phoenix lives 500 years or longer with only one phoenix existing at a time. When the bird'... |
16 April 2007
05:39 GMT |
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China presented on Saturday, at a China-United Kingdom space technology seminar at the Shanghai Aerospace System Engineering Institute, the prototype of a lunar rover that will hopefully be chosen for their first landing on the moon, to take place in 2012 . The country's lunar ambitions are set out in the "Chan... |
2 April 2007
05:51 GMT |
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