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Second Planned Extrication Drive is Straight Ahead Again

Second Planned Extrication Drive is Straight Ahead Again

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Because the first extrication drive for Spirit, on Sol 2088 (Nov. 17), stopped as soon as it began due to an exceeded tilt limit, the plan for an extrication drive on Sol 2090 (Nov. 19) wil ...


Longer Tests Beginning

Free Spirit: Longer Rover Tests Beginning

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mars rover team members have begun a new phase of testing at JPL -- using longer-duration experiments -- in their preparations for driving Spirit again on Mars.





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Fermi Telescope Peers Deep into Microquasar

Fermi Telescope Peers Deep into Microquasar (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has made the first unambiguous detection of high-energy gamma-rays from an enigmatic binary system known as Cygnus X-3. The system pairs a hot, massive ...


No Wheel Stall in Diagnostic Drive

Spirit Mars Rover: No Wheel Stall in Diagnostic Drive

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- On Sol 2095 (Tuesday, Nov. 24), Spirit performed a set of diagnostic actions related to a stall of the right-rear wheel on the previous drive, three days earlier.


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Houses of the rising sun: Research sheds new light on Ancient Greeks

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3

New research at the University of Leicester has identified scores of Sicilian temples built to face the rising Sun, shedding light on the practices of the Ancient Greeks.


Design chosen for British 1,000 mph car

Design chosen for British 1,000 mph car (w/ Video)

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (11) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- A British team hoping to be the first to get a car to 1,000 mph (1,610 km/h) has made its final design selection. The six-tonne car, known as the Bloodhound, will be powered by a Eurofighter ...


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Pulling the plug on hybrid myths

Technology / Energy

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (16) | comments 31

(PhysOrg.com) -- Whether you call them myths, urban legends, fables or old wives' tales, there's a lot of misinformation out there about plug-in electric hybrid vehicles. These vehicles, abbreviated PHEVs, ...


Battery Research Aims To Store Renewable Energy

Battery Research Aims To Store Renewable Energy

Technology / Energy

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (13) | comments 6

The biggest chemical battery in the United States is located near Interstate 90 in the small town of Luverne, Minn. The 80 ton device -- the size of two tractor-trailers stacked on top of each other -- stores ...


Cross-country runabouts -- immune cells on the move

Cross-country runabouts -- immune cells on the move

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In order to effectively fight pathogens, even at remote areas of the human body, immune cells have to move quickly and in a flexible manner.


Small optical force can budge nanoscale objects

Small optical force can budge nanoscale objects

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineering researchers have used a very tiny beam of light with as little as 1 milliwatt of power to move a silicon structure up to 12 nanometers.


NASA to Begin Attempts to Free Sand-Trapped Mars Rover

NASA to Begin Attempts to Free Sand-Trapped Mars Rover

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA will begin transmitting commands to its Mars exploration rover Spirit on Monday as part of an escape plan to free the venerable robot from its Martian sand trap.


New search technique for images and videos has broad applications

New search technique for images and videos has broad applications

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have developed a powerful new approach to a fundamental problem in computer vision: how to program a computer to recognize or categorize ...



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