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NASA Opportunity Rover Just Experienced Its 5000th Martian Dawn
Saturday, February 17 marked the 5000th local day (sol) of operations for NASA’s Mars Opportunity rover, which was originally designed to last for just 90 sols after its January 2004 landing date, but has instead continued to set milestones like completing a marathon-length tour of its surroundings and taking huge composite photos of its new…
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Forget Potatoes, We’ll Be Eating Onions And Drinking Dandelion Wine On Mars
OK, we get it. If you want to survive on Mars, just grow a bunch of potatoes out of your own, uh, fertiliser, like Matt Damon in The Martian and boil, smash and stew them to your stomach’s content. Except potatoes don’t grow anywhere near as well as on Mars as other vegetables, going by…
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Why Buy A Nintendo Switch When You Can Make Your Own With A Raspberry Pi?
First answer: it’s easier to buy one. And that’s cool. But there are people who, given a Raspberry Pi, a 3D printer and a stick of chewing gum, are going to build their own facsimile running emulation software so they can play whatever they like. Christopher Foote is one such person. The fruits of his…
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Fujifilm Factory Tour Shows How Much Work Goes Into Making Modern Cameras And Lenses
We just assume nowadays that almost everything is mass-produced by machines, including complicated devices like cameras and camera lenses. Turns out that’s not the case — at least, not for Fujifilm. In this video, we get the opportunity to see all the hard work and attention-to-detail that goes into producing a subset of the company’s…