Michelangelo 's tumblog

Infographic: How the OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission Will Work

Thanks to Space.com and the Tech Media Network for sharing this infographic showing how NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission will reach out and grab a sample from asteroid RQ26 in 2020. Source SPACE.com:

End of the Road for Spirit Rover

A composite image of how the Spirit rover probably looks, stuck in Gusev Crater. Credit: NASA, image editing by Stu Atkinson.

In the wee hours of May 25, 2011 the scientists and…

TermKit

I see TermKit as an extension of what Apple did with OS X, in particular the system tools like Disk Utility and Activity Monitor. Tech stuff doesn’t have to look like it comes from the Matrix.

Gliese 581d Confirmed as 'Habitable' Exoplanet

An anonymous reader writes “A rocky world orbiting a nearby star was confirmed (PDF) as the first planet outside our Solar System to meet key requirements for sustaining life.” The “key requirement”…

Algorithm Glitch Voids Outcome of US Green Card Lottery

jayminer writes “Results for the United States Diversity Visa Lottery for 2012 were declared void due to a programming glitch in the random selection algorithm. At first, the results were published…

Magma Ocean Flows Beneath Io’s Surface

This graphic shows the internal structure of Jupiter’s moon Io as revealed by data from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft. The low-density crust about 30 to 50 kilometers (20 to 30 miles) thick…

Titan May Have Water Ocean Under the Surface

RedEaredSlider writes “NASA’s Cassini probe, in orbit around Saturn, may have discovered evidence for a liquid water ocean under the surface of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. The data comes from radar…

The Tinkerer’s Guide, Page 7 (of 8)

(Start from Page 1.)

Gravity Probe B Confirms Two of Einstein’s Space-Time Theories

Einstein’s predicted geodetic and frame-dragging effects, and the Schiff Equation for calculating them. Credit: Stanford University

Researchers have confirmed two predictions of Albert…