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Mars Express Orbiter is Finally Getting An Upgrade From Windows 98!
Whatever operating system your PC (or laptop) is currently running, I would hope that it’s significantly more modern than Windows 98. When the Mars Express Orbiter launched around 20-years-ago, however, this came just a point where the operating system had just been supplanted by the monumentally successful Windows XP. Alas…
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NASA Advertises Job to Isolate on Fake Mars for 8 Months
Based on the current COVID-19 situation, I daresay that many of us are starting to feel like self-isolation experts. On the plus side though, this could potentially lead to a new and exciting career with NASA! Following a post on their official website, NASA is actively advertising vacancies for a…
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NASA Reveals Helicopter Attachment for Mars Rover
As we start to learn more about our neighbouring planet, various organisations (NASA chief amongst them) are looking to send more advanced robots (or more technically, ‘rovers’) to the surface. Specifically, to see what we can learn and, who knows, maybe even send a person there one day. Reveals details…
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NASA Launch Mars 2020 Rover Construction Live Stream
NASA Live Stream Mars Cover Construction Over the last year, NASA has made it pretty clear that after a near 10 year hiatus the company plans to start actively getting back into the space business. Part of this involves rocket launches and even potentially getting people back on the moon.…
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NASA Abandons Hope for Mars Rover Opportunity
NASA Abandons Hope for Opportunity Rover Last year a pretty significant storm hit Mars and one of the casualties with the Opportunity Rover. While Curiousity managed to escape unscathed, contact was lost with Opportunity. The exact cause was unclear, it was, however, speculated that the storm may have caused the solar…
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Elon Musk Thinks A Ticket To Mars Will Cost Around $500,000
SpaceX Trip To Mars Commercial flights to space are looking likely to form part of practical reality for consumers within the next 5 years. Well, depending on how much money you have at least. Incidentally, at the risk of avoiding a Back To The Future II or Blade Runner prediction…
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Captain Kirk Asks NASA Question About InSight Photo
NASA InSight Since successfully landing on the surface of Mars in late November, the NASA InSight probe has already been sending a number of remarkable images back to Earth. It seems, however, that one image has caught the attention of someone who is more than a little associated with space.…
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Astronomers Release ‘Christmas’ Photo From Mars
Merry Christmas From Mars! Mars has certainly been the focus of more than a little attention over the last few months. With the InSight NASA probe successfully landing on the surface, it has already been sending back some pretty amazing images to Earth. It seems, however, that Mars has a…
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NASA InSight Probe Sends A Selfie Back To Earth
NASA InSight Probe You may recall how a little over 2 weeks ago, the NASA InSight probe prepared to make it’s (pretty dangerous) landing on the surface of Mars. We say pretty dangerous as to date crafts attempting to make a landing have only seen around a 50%-60% success rate.…
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NASA InSight Successfully Lands On Mars!
NASA InSight Successfully Lands On Mars! Yesterday, at almost exactly 8 pm (GMT) the NASA InSight prove began its descent towards Mars. Having travelled for around 6 months to reach its destination, it was this final approach that was the most critical. Would it successfully get through the atmosphere and,…
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Elon Musk Says ‘70% Chance’ He’ll Move To Mars
Elon Musk Says ‘70% Chance’ He’ll Move To Mars Back in 1973 the late (and great) David Bowie asked ‘is there life on Mars?’. Well, the chances are not. Well, at least if there was life, it doesn’t appear to be around any more. With the growing popularity of private…
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InSight Mars NASA Landing Stream To Start At Circa 8pm GMT
InSight Mars Landing Stream You may have noticed over the last week or so that today marks the day in which the InSight probe will attempt to land on the surface of Mars. While you might think that this is relatively straightforward, success rates for Mars landings are actually rather…
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NASA Release Insight Video Ahead Of Live Mars Landing
NASA Release Insight Video Ahead Of Live Mars Landing Last week you may recall that we reported how for the first time in 6 years, NASA was planning to broadcast, live, the landing of the InSight craft as it descends towards Mars. The probe, which launched roughly 6 months ago,…
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NASA Use AI To Create Interplanetary Lander
NASA Use AI To Create Interplanetary Lander Artificial Intelligence will certainly play a major role in our future. Why? Well because it’s been proven on several occasions that it has the ability to maybe overcome some of the mental blocks we have to be truly innovative. For example, we regularly…
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NASA To Broadcast First Craft Landing In 6 Years
NASA To Broadcast First Craft Landing In 6 Years NASA is an organisation that holds a lot of respect around the world. Often releasing many of their findings with excellent style and quality their latest offering is certainly not to be missed. The InSight spacecraft has been on it’s journey…
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