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more about #rover more comments → bitgod: Wait, I call that picture photoshopped! A-10s can't fly above clouds! Not even fog! more » redman042: Un-flippin-believable. I'd expect the military to encrypt EVERYTHING. This flies against everything the military is about. Stuuupppiiiiid! more » nutbastard: so how is this NOT one of the new perks in MW2???? more » blash: Heads will roll if they ever find out that Bin Laden escaped because he was beating our intel and we would've had him if our feeds were secure. more » ripfire: "Oops"? Or is it a way to spread misinformation? more » OMG! weatherman: I don't see how the ability to eavesdrop on live video streams from airplanes could not be a significant strategic risk. And if this is true, it has t... more » Noobs-R-Us: Johnny-5 is not alive? more » mangonights: NASA just needs to keep paying the annual membership for about a 100 years and A.A.A. will eventually get there to give Spirit a tow. ...much like th... more » Volanova: The fact that it's still semi-operational after this long is a miracle as it is. I still get a smile on my face when I read about the weekly transmis... more » gdigital: The show I saw on this showed the team of dozens of people trying to unstick a rover that was supposed to be dead long ago. They send a command. wai... more » fryhole: NASA, it's an amazing accomplishment to send a robot to Mars, but its freaking incredible that you're still working on restoring Spirit's movement aft... more » tomcat1483: Every journey must have an end. It is a little sand that Spirits may end here. We must keep in mind that his journey was only supposed to last 60 days... more » FredicvsMaximvs: This sounds like a job for SPACEBAT! #space more » PotteryBarnClearanceSale: Even if this fails, it isn't a loss since both rovers are so far over their expected mission life everything at this point is a bonus. The Mars rover... more » Pessimippopotamus: Awwwwwwwww. The Mars Rovers are the original Wall-Es. #space more » -
#militaryintelligence
Insurgents' $26 Drone Video Hack Works On Almost Every Military Plane
So, Iraqi insurgents found a way to hack into Predator drones' unencrypted video feeds with cheap Windows shareware. Ridiculous? Obviously! But also kind of minor—the story was more embarrassing than alarming; a gaffe, not a disaster. Then, this. More » -
#mars
Mars Spirit Rover Suffers Another Setback With Second Wheel Thought Broken
NASA's Spirit Rover just isn't having much luck, between sand storms and broken wheels, with a second wheel presumed broken and the threat of an icy-cold winter freezing the Spirit "to death" if it doesn't move on soon. More » -
#mars
Spirit Rover Ready to Take...Those Sunken Wheels...
...And learn to roll again, roll again so free. Sure, Spirit is stuck in sand and senile, but that doesn't mean he's down and out. NASA is ready to free Spirit from the sand and put him back to work. More » -
#space
Britain's Mars Rover Tested on Earth
Europe plans to launch its own rover to Mars in 2018. Here we see the Britain-built "Bridget" driving around some hole in the ground that sort of looks like Mars. More » -
#spiritrover
The NASA Spirit Rover Lives!
Nerds cheered and wept with happiness as NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit responded to ground control commands today via the Mars Odyssey orbiter. Earlier this week, NASA feared that the rover would fall victim to the same problem that killed our beloved Phoenix Mars Lander. The dust storm is still a problem, but Spirit has managed to gather enough solar energy to communicate normally. Once again, Spirit has lived up to the name and proven that its a fighter. [Spacefellowship via Slashdot] -
#anothertearjerker
Spirit Mars Rover May Be Dead Too Now
More bad bad news. Just two days ago Phoenix Mars Lander sent his last words, and NASA announced the end of the mission because of a storm that covered its solar panels with Martian dust. Today, we have learnt that the Mars Spirit rover may be dying too because exactly the same problem. In fact, according to Bruce Banerdt—the mission manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and part-time Hulk impersonator—he may be dead already: More » -
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#suburbansprawl
Moonstream Rover Could Finally Make Yuppies Happy On Mars
The puny Phoenix lander might be dominating the news right now, but in a few (dozen) years, we might be enjoying the Red Planet from a much more suburban perspective. A young designer has adapted one of man’s greatest achievements - the S.U.V. - to the Martian landscape. By scaling up the spidery walking legs of NASA’s ATHLETE rovers, the massive Moonstream would be able to slowly but smoothly traverse Mars’ uneven surfaces with a giant payload of people and hardware. More »
