A team of chemists from New York University and the University of Cambridge has developed a method for examining the inner workings of battery-like devices called supercapacitorsUnconventional internal design yields a larger capacitanceThat ...
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The NASA Mars rover Curiosity is running again after engineers put it to sleep for a day this week to protect it from a powerful solar storm. On Tuesday, the sun unleashed what appeared to be a major blast of radiation and solar wind, ...
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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is out of safe mode and back on active status after computer trouble had sidelined the vehicle for nearly a week. The space agency reported that Curiosity is now running on its backup computer system, known as ...
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Computerworld - NASA programmers and engineers will begin upgrading the Mars Curiosity rover's software Saturday, increasing its ability to move and use its robotic arm. The software upgrade, dubbed R10, was uploaded to the rover during ...
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Picture doing a remote software upgrade. Now picture doing it when the machine you're upgrading is a robotic rover sitting 350 million miles away, on the surface of Mars. That's what a team of programmers and engineers at NASA are dealing ...
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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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