All the stories tagged with: mars
Gears for future Mars mission tested on an icy Austrian cave
05/08/2012, We could be closing in on that day when man will finally make its first landing on the planet Mars. But to get there will require intense preparation and… hi-tech gears of course! On an icy cave in Austria, a [...]
NASA’s Viking robot found life on Mars in 1976?
04/12/2012, Is there really life on the Red Planet? Those who want to believe so says “Yes!”, after new analysis of 36-year-old data that were resuscitated from printouts pointed out such a possibility. This particular international team of mathematicians and scientists [...]
New Rover to attack Mars this November
11/11/2011, NASA is currently going through the final paces of introducing their most advanced rover yet, where it is set to launch in the direction of Mars this coming November 25th. The rover is aptly named Curiosity, where it will make [...]
520 days Mars mission compressed into a 15 minute video
11/04/2011, If you’ve ever wondered what a mission to Mars would be like, well you won’t have to anymore. The folks over at the European Space Agency held a simulated mission to Mars called Mars500, where six astronauts were placed inside [...]
NASA’s Mars rover: Curiosity almost complete
04/06/2011, The NASA rover, Curiosity, which had to abandon its plans to bring 3D cameras to Mars, is almost ready for its mission later this year. NASA has just announced that the exploring vehicle is nearing its final stages of completion [...]
No 3D Rover camera from NASA
03/28/2011, Here’s an expansion on our previous post about the lack of a 3D camera on the upcoming Rover to Mars – you can forget about seeing the surface of Mars in 3D – NASA has decided to stop any more [...]
3D cameras removed from Mars rover
03/28/2011, For those of you who were hoping to watch 3D footage from NASA’s Mars expedition later this year, you’re out of luck. NASA announced that they have ditched the plans to include 3D cameras on the Mars rover, Curiosity. James [...]
Swarming robots could be used to search for life on mars
03/21/2011, An engineer from the University of Southampton, UK recently wrote a paper in which he mentioned that the best way for robots to explore mars would be to send swarms of rolling, jumping robots. These Jollbots, as they were called, [...]
Self-dusting solar panels to make life a whole lot easier
08/22/2010, It makes perfect sense to build a solar power plant in the middle of the desert – after all, that place gets a whole lot of sun throughout the day (even better if someone could come up with the technology [...]
James Cameron working on 3D camera for Mars rover
04/30/2010, James Cameron is no stranger to cutting edge movie making technology, has been roped in to assist NASA in developing a high-resolution 3D camera that will see action in the next Mars rover known as Curiosity that will roll out [...]
