With the Mars Curiosity rover's science instruments working well, NASA engineers are getting ready for two big tests of their robotic rover -- blasting a rock with a laser beam and getting the rover moving. Curiosity's first drive will be ...
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NASA's Mars Curiosity rover wiggled its wheels Tuesday and is ready to make its first -- if brief -- test drive on Wednesday. As part of a series of major tests that have been running over the past several days, the robotic rover on ...
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While the Mars Curiosity rover is the most complex machine NASA has ever sent to another planet, the computer that runs it is no more powerful than the one in your smartphone. The robotic rover, which landed in the Gale Crater on Mars ...
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With the Mars rover's software successfully upgraded, Curiosity is a big step closer to beginning its mission of finding out whether life has ever existed on Mars. Curiosity, NASA's super robotic rover, has been on the surface of Mars for ...
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The Curiosity rover that landed on Mars on Aug. 6 features the largest, most advanced scientific payload of any Mars mission yet — and, as usual, Reali-Slim® thin section bearings. The 5 pairs of duplexed bearings from Kaydon ...
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11 Oct 2012 The high-reliability semiconductor and imaging component manufacturer is expanding in Asia,but restructuring in the UK. e2v Technologies,the UK company that makes a range of semiconductor components including high-end ...
IT services provider Civica has secured multiple contracts with 22 UK schools to provide digital learning services. Implemented by Civica's education division, the learning environments use Civica's CloudBase learning platform and Virtual ...
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Vint Cerf–the founding father of the internet–is backing the BCS's call for computer science to be included in the English Baccalaureate(EBacc). In 2015,the EBacc is set to replace the current GCSE examination system in five ...
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A scout hut in Aldershot has become the first to test drive Fubra Limited's new initiative to introduce young people to the world of programming. The Fubra Universe has launched as a pilot with 2nd Aldershot Scouts through a 100Mbps ...
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The Mars Curiosity Rover,a robot sent to Mars by NASA to investigate the possibility of extra-terrestrial life on the planet,had to undergo a rigorous software verification process to ensure that it could safely land on Mars. Further ...
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NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab(JPL)used static code analysis from Coverity to maximise the quality of the code running on the Curiosity rover. Curiosity successfully landed on Mars earlier this month.The developers at JPL used a suite of ...
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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity powers up its laser and examines the neighborhood. ChemCam in action After nearly two weeks on the Martian surface,the Mars Science Laboratory's Curiosity rover has used its ChemCam laser characterization ...
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Computerworld-NASA has decided to take a much deeper look inside Mars to try to figure out why the Red Planet evolved so differently from Earth. The space agency announced late on Monday that it will launch a new mission in 2016,named ...
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Computerworld-NASA's Mars Curiosity rover is three-quarters of the way through a major software upgrade NASA has dubbed a"brain transplant." The four-day software upgrade started Saturday and,if all goes as planned,should wrap up by ...
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IDG News Service - If you want to impress people in technology-drenched Silicon Valley, you need a pretty special gadget. An iPhone 5 prototype would definitely do it, and something related to the Mars Curiosity rover would probably earn ...
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