Welcome back to Mars, ladies and gentlemen, as the NASA Curiosity mission continues its epic journey across the planet's surface with a news note that they have found radiation levels totally safe for human beings. This finding is entirely encouraging for the future of Mars exploration as far as actually sending human beings there goes, and certainly doesn't send a negative mark back on the possibility of us living there someday. Of course if you're a fan of the original Total Recall, you don't care one way or another simply for the safety of your eyeballs, but still.
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‘NASA’ Stories
Curiosity Mars rover finds radiation levels safe for humankind
NASA updates on data breach, says 10,000 users compromised
Earlier today, we reported that NASA had suffered a serious security breach when one of its employee's laptops was stolen from his vehicle. Later today, NASA stated that it was implementing new security rules to prevent having data compromised like this again. Now the agency has released stats on the contents of the laptop, saying that about 10,000 users have been compromised.
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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: November 15, 2012
Welcome to Thursday evening folks. Today Microsoft's former Windows head Steven Sinofsky discussed his recent and surprising departure from the company, but didn't go into too many specifics when it came down to why he actually left. The Kindle Fire HD 8.9 started shipping ahead of schedule today, while new reports are suggesting that Apple may delay the new iMac into 2013. NASA was the victim of a major security breach recently, and today it said that it will make sure all of its laptops are equipped with full disk encryption by the end of the year as a result.
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NASA now requiring encrypted laptops to avoid future breaches
Earlier today, we heard the news that NASA had suffered a major security breach when the laptop of an associate deputy administrator was stolen out of his car. The laptop contained the personal information of a number of NASA employees, including social security numbers. Naturally, this is a pretty big problem for NASA, so now it's no surprise that we're seeing the organization take measures to make sure that nothing on this scale happens again.
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Stolen NASA laptop leaks personnel details
NASA has been informing workers and contractors this week that a laptop that had personal information was stolen. The information stored on the laptop included Social Security numbers and other details. The laptop was reportedly stolen from a locked car two weeks ago, and puts information on thousands of workers and contractors at NASA at risk.
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Google Mars images are sharper than Google Earth images
Google created its Google Mars service as a spinoff from Google Earth back in 2009. Since that launch, most of the satellite images offered of Mars were relatively low resolution. That has all changed now with an update for Google Mars that makes the images even sharper than what Google offers of our own planet in many areas.
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NASA using selective laser melting to build rockets
The Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama is getting its science-fiction groove on by using selective laser melting, also known as SLM, to create the metal parts needed for heavy-lift rockets. What makes this cooler is that SLM is basically 3D printing, something that saves millions in construction costs. According to NASA, this is the future of manufacturing.
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NASA and ESA test internet-like communication protocol using Lego robot
NASA and the European Space Agency have announced they have successfully tested an internet-like interplanetary communications protocol, called Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN), between astronauts on the International Space Station and a Lego-built robot in Germany. Over 225 miles separate the two.
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Alien life could be rarer than believed warn asteroid spotters
The possibility of complex alien life elsewhere in the universe could be rarer than previously thought, researchers have warned, with asteroid belts considered near-vital for evolution-spurring proving in short supply. Although the centerpiece of disaster movies such as Deep Impact and Armageddon, asteroids are also believed to act as a catalyst to life, delivering water and chemicals to planets as well as punctuating species development through periodic impacts. That's a fine balance to be made, however, researchers at the University of Colorado argue, and it demands a particular - and uncommonly found - type of asteroid belt to be present.
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International Space Station sees 12 consecutive years of habitation
Today marks the 12th anniversary of "continuous presence in space" aboard NASA's International Space Station. The first component of the ISS was launched into space in 1998, but it wasn't until two years later when the first humans officially set foot into the Space Station -- cosmonauts Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei K. Krikalev, and NASA astronaut Bill Shepherd.
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Mars Curiosity Rover takes a high-res self-portrait
Today, NASA released a high-resolution self-portrait of the Mars Curiosity rover taken by the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI). The photo consists of 55 images that were stitched together to create one giant photograph of the rover. The images were taken on October 31, and were sent down to Earth this morning.
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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: November 1, 2012
We've officially entered November, which means that 2013 is right around the corner - an alarming thought indeed. Today the folks at iFixit gave us an up close look at the internals of the iPad Mini, while Apple was told by a UK judge that it needs to change the Samsung "apology" on its website. Verizon is helping out with the Hurricane Sandy recovery effort, as is Apple by accepting donations through iTunes. We heard a whopper of a rumor that claims Google will soon introduce physical Google Wallet credit cards which, if true, could be a major game-changer.
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