Archive for the ‘Space’ Category
Saturday, September 15th, 2007
Google is offering $20 million to any company which can land a robotic rover on the moon and beam images of the lunar surface back to earth. There is a $5 million second place prize, as well as $5 million in bonus cash if the winner exceeds the minimum ...
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Google launched Sky, a new feature that enables users of Google Earth to view the sky as seen from planet Earth, through a partnership with the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, the science operations center for Hubble. To access the new feature, users will need to download the newest ...
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Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Two events are set to happen this week in the sky.
Total lunar eclipse (Aug 28, 2007):
A total eclipse of the Moon occurs during the early morning of Tuesday, August 28, 2007. The event is widely visible from the United States and Canada as well as South America, the Pacific Ocean, ...
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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
The ideas of time travel and time machine have fascinated mankind for centuries. There were many ideas scientific fiction stories and movies emerged over time.
But when Albert Einstein released his theory of special relativity, he laid the foundation for the theoretical possibility of time travel. As we all know, no ...
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Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
According to LinuxDevices.com, Linux was selected for a NASA experiment aimed at proving the feasibility of COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) hardware and software for scientific space missions. A key requirement was for application development and runtime environments familiar to scientists, to facilitate porting applications from the lab to the spacecraft.
NASA's "Dependable ...
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