This image was captured by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter while flying over the Bonneveille Crater on January 29, 2012. There’s a spaceship hidden in plain view, sightly red because of the planet’s dust. Can you see it? More »
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to walk around on Mars? For 99.99999% of us, this may be as close as we ever get. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has given us the honour of taking the lid off of this awesome, interactive eye-candy. Basically it’s Google Earth, for Mars. More »
Even as its twin goes dark, Opportunity soldiers on unabated: The plucky NASA Mars rover, on the planet for seven years now, just passed an impressive 30-kilometre milestone. More »
From the New York Times: Spirit has been incommunicado for more than a year despite daily calls by NASA. The cause of Spirit’s silence may never be known, but it’s likely the bitter Martian winter damaged its electronics, preventing the six-wheel rover from waking up.
My parents taught me to never talk to strangers, but they never told me I couldn’t buy Christmas gifts for them! If you’re overdosed with Christmas spirit, Giftastranger.net generates random addresses across the world so people can send gifts to strangers. More »
NASA’s Mars Spirit Rover, now a stationary probe stuck in the sands of the Red Planet, may not survive the Martian Winter. More »
Looks like the iPhone 4 has already gotten the jailbreak treatment. There are images floating around that are showing a proper jailbreak using a new version of the Spirit tool which should be available publicly next week. [Redmond Pie] More »
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There’s no clear end in sight to the Adobe-Apple conflict. But the guy who gave us the Spirit iPhone and iPad jailbreaks has just produced a real live example of Flash ported to an iPhone. Looks… utopian. More »
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The iPad Camera Connection Kit may be selling itself short with its name; turns out you can also use it to hook your iPad up to an external hard drive. Here’s how it’s done. More »