Tag: MARSROVER

Microsoft and NASA have teamed up to bring you and your humble desktop PC some of the highest-resolution images of Mars currently available. Using a combination of satellite imagery and elevation models, Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope project has created an impressively detailed 3-D map of the surface of the Red Planet. The interactive tour, which simulates flying through Martian canyons and ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Apple has released the initial iPad sales numbers, and -- while certainly impressive -- the stats still fall short of some of the early and exaggerated expectations. According to the company, consumers purchased 300,000 iPads on Saturday, downloaded over 1 million apps, and checked out over 250,000 iBooks from the brand new ...

MIT's Personal Robotics Group has recently developed MeBot, a telerobot that mimics the head and arm movements of its operator. Telerobotics allow a user to remotely control a robot that can then interact with other objects and people. Problem is, most of the telerobots out there have been somewhat lacking in emotive qualities. MeBot attempts to rectify that issue by tracking the operator's ...

"Hey, Mom and Dad, guess what I did today? I named NASA's newest Mars rover. Let's get ice cream." We're guessing that's the conversation 12-year-old Clara Ma had with her parents after the sixth-grade student from Sunflower Elementary School in Lenexa, Kansas won a nationwide contest to name the next Martian rover. Her contest-winning appellation? Curiosity. NASA has a history of naming its ...