NASA Ingenuity Mars helicopter alive and well and hopping after its vacation
The Ingenuity helicopter spotted its own shadow during its short 14th hop-flight.
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NASA Offers Chance to Meet Its Mars Rover and Helicopter | Digital Trends
NASA is offering space fans the chance to come face to face with full-scale models of its trailblazing Mars Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter.
The space agency is taking the models on a museum tour across the U.S. from the end of this month a…
Mars Helicopter Back in Action for High Rotor Speed Flight | Digital Trends
NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity will be attempting another test flight this weekend, spinning its rotors faster than in any flight before to compensate for the changing weather on Mars.
In a tweet posted on Friday, October 22, NASA’s Jet Propulsion La…
Intel slipped—and its future now depends on making everyone else’s chips
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Last month, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger stepped to a podium on a hazy, wind-whipped day just outside Phoenix. “Isn’t this awesome!” Gelsinger exclaimed, gesturing over his shoulder. Behind him, two large pieces of …
The Huawei MateBook 16 Review, Powered by AMD Ryzen 7 5800H: Ecosystem Plus
Having very recently reviewed the Matebook X Pro 2021 (13.9-inch), our local PR in the UK offered me a last-minute chance to examine the newest element to their laptop portfolio. The Huawei MateBook 16, on paper at least, comes across as a workhorse ma…
NASA’s Mars Sounds Open Up Whole New World for Scientists | Digital Trends
Perseverance is the first Mars rover to include microphones, an advancement that’s opened up a whole new world of discovery for NASA scientists keen to learn more about the distant planet.
This week, the team overseeing the mission released a collectio…
World’s first USB-C iPhone | ZDNet
If Apple won’t sell you an iPhone with a USB-C port on it, I guess you’ll just have to make one yourself.
That’s what Ken Pillonel, a master’s degree student in robotics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, EPFL, did.
Pillonel created a …
Rover’s pictures show long history of rivers flowing into Martian crater
Enlarge / The rocks of Kodiak Butte record a lot of the history of Jezero Crater.
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Normally, it takes some time for NASA’s Mars rovers to return scientific data. The instruments need to be calibrated and commissioned, and …
See a flying, walking bipedal robot with propellers on its shoulders tackle a slackline
LEO the robot can handle a slackline thanks to its combination of legs and drone-like propellers.
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NASA spacecraft spots Perseverance rover looking like a shiny speck on dusty Mars
Can you spot the rover in this NASA image of Mars? It’s near the center and it stands out from the surrounding landscape.
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