Entries tagged with: Mars
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Topsight, March 9, 2009
• Geoengineering Hits the Big-Time: My guess is that 2009 will be seen as the year geoengineering hit the mainstream. Just in the last couple of weeks, we've had: A deep look at geoengineering in New Scientist, complete with...
Topsight, February 12, 02008
Because "Bottomsight" just sounds too naughty. • Hot Cyborg Action: Industrial designer Hans Alexander Huseklepp wondered what would happen if you took the modern design aesthetic seen in simple prosthetics like eyeglasses, and applied it to more sophisticated prosthetics, like...
Life on Mars? Why It Matters
News today from NASA that they've confirmed the presence of methane in the Martian atmosphere, concentrated in three areas (one of the major sources, Nili Fossae, is shown here). For a variety of reasons, this offers the strongest evidence...
Tuesday Topsight, September 30, 2008
New site logo -- what do you think? • Spam spam spam spam: C Sven Johnson has a post up today at Futurismic that's definitely worth a look: When 3D Spam Got Old. It actually takes place in the Superstruct...
Update: Mars Gets the Robots it Needs
Mars Need Robots!
NASA's latest Mars lander, Phoenix, is scheduled to land at the north pole of Mars Sunday at around 4:30pm PDT. Unlike the Mars rovers, Phoenix is a static lander (and, as the above video simulation shows, even goes all...
Surface Water on Mars? (Update: Probably Not)
Woah. If this is confirmed, it's big. New analysis of Mars Rover images taken a couple of years ago in the "Endurance" crater seem to show standing pools of water on the Martian surface. Along with fellow Lockheed engineer Daniel...
Rosetta and the Craters of Mars
I love pictures from space probes, and particularly get a kick out of the shots that include some evidence of the probe in question -- tracks in the sand, antenna booms, and such. These pictures offer a much greater sense...
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