The same processor that powered Apple’s iconic, colorful 1998 iMac is being used to run NASA’s Perseverance on Mars. The rover is fitted with a PowerPC 750 processor that was found in the iMac G3 before Apple switched to Intel chips in 2005, New Scientist reports. The processor, which is also found in the Curiosity … Read more
Parents have slammed Jaguar Land Rover for offering work experience sessions to girls and non-binary pupils only. The motoring giant has excluded boys from the two-week virtual classes for secondary school children aged 10-13. The female and non-binary work experience programme is set to coincide with International Women’s Day on 8 March. But parents have … Read more
NASA’s Perseverance rover, the parachute that helped it land and the descent stage have been spotted on Mars by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) ExoMars orbiter. The rover first landed on the Red Planet on February 18 after a hair raising ‘7 minutes of terror’ descent to the Martian surface that saw it slowed down … Read more
Fetch the smelling salts – quick. Environmentalists, green anti-car campaigners, and the puritanically woke brigade are about to have a fit of the vapours. Land Rover has announced the fastest and most powerful version of the Defender 4X4 ever built – a growling supercharged 5.0-litre 525 horsepower V8 petrol incarnation of its latest off-roader that … Read more
The world received the first up-close look of a spacecraft landing on Mars in a video beamed back to NASA by its ‘most sophisticated’ rover, Perseverance, which touched down Thursday. The video begins with the violent release of the sonic parachute from the rover, along with ejection of the heat shield and shows the moment the … Read more
The world received the first up-close look of a spacecraft landing on Mars in a video beamed back to NASA by its ‘most sophisticated’ rover, Perseverance, which touched down Thursday. The video begins with the violent release of the sonic parachute from the rover, along with ejection of the heat shield and shows the moment the … Read more
NASA has released new images of the Perseverance rover on Mars, including a shot taken during the ‘seven minutes of terror’ when it endured tumultuous conditions that battered the craft as it entered the Martian atmosphere and approached the surface. The $2.2.billion rover touched down on the Martian surface Thursday following a 239 million mile journey … Read more
NASA has released new images of the Perseverance rover on Mars, including a shot taken during the ‘seven minutes of terror’ when it endured tumultuous conditions that battered the craft as it entered the Martian atmosphere and approached the surface. The $2.2.billion rover touched down on the Martian surface Thursday following a 239 million mile journey … Read more
NASA has launched an ‘interactive map’ of Mars that lets you track the Perseverance rover as it begins its exploration of the Jezero crater on the Red Planet. Perseverance landed on Mars after a nail biting ‘seven minutes of terror’ on Thursday that involved plummeting through the atmosphere at 12,000 miles per hour. It was … Read more
NASA has landed a rover on Mars, and social media users including Bill Nye, Mike Pence and Buzz Aldrin have celebrated the remarkable achievement. This was a particularly difficult landing for the US space agency as they were touching down in the Jezero crater – littered with obstacles including jagged rocks. Taking to Twitter, users … Read more