The nearside of the Moon will never resemble your Granddad's back forty, but agriculture remains the key to living and working off-world. All the mineral ore in the solar system can't replace the fact that for extended periods on the Moon ...
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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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The Mars rover Curiosity is on a mission to deliver what scientists hope will be groundbreaking scientific research that wouldn't be possible without robotics,according to a NASA chief engineer. "It's critical to this mission,"said Louise ...
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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's Mars rover Curiosity took its first, albeit short, drive on the Martian surface today and now scientists say it's just about ready to head out on its first real trek. "I'm pleased to report that Curiosity today had ...
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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IDG News Service-President Barack Obama pledged on Monday to keep science and technology funding strong following the success of NASA's Curiosity rover landing on Mars. Obama made the commitment in a phone call to the Curiosity team at ...
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Simulating the Mars mission Computational curiosity Landing system IT has been key to successfully landing the rover robot Curiosity, on Mars earlier this week. Mars missions in the past have not had a great track record. But the landing ...
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A short,low resolution video captured the final minutes of Mars rover Curiosity's descent onto the planet.At the beginning of the clip the 15-foot wide heat shield can be seen separating from the capsule carrying the rover. The images ...
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IT and marketing departments must work better together to maximise the impact of campaigns, especially those involving social media, according to research. The latest Social Media Revenues Forecast report from analyst Gartner suggests ...
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Hungary-Dóm Square in Szeged(literally,Cathedral Square)is one of the largest squares in Hungary.Every year its 12,000sq.m of open space are transformed into a massive 4000-seat auditorium to host the Szeged Open-Air festival.With a ...
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Companies representing the A-Z of consumer goods have so far participated this year,including H.J.Heinz,Mars,L'Oreal and Unilever. The workshop demonstrates the increase in operational efficiency and customer focus that becomes possible ...
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