Phoenix lands safely on Mars
NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft has landed safely on Mars yesterday at around 23:38 GMT, following a ten-month flight.
One of the first color pictures.
Entry Descent and Landing of the spacecraft.
Landing.
13y old schoolboy correct astrophysicists at NASA
“A 13-year-old schoolboy corrected NASA’s estimates on the chances of an asteroid colliding with Earth.“
How to hold a binocular
I’ve found a very nice link explaining how to hold a binocular for sky observation. My preferable is number 3, but I’ve never tried fourth variant. You can also learn something about binocular mounts on that page.
GNU/Radio in Fedora
From today you can enjoy GNU/Radio in Fedora. What’s GNURadio? It’s a python-based software for deploying SDR (Software Defined Radios). One of the most popular along hardware for usage of SDRs is Universal Software Radio Peripheral, it’s just a small electronic board, quite cheap and what’s interesting, with open design.
This small board pre-process [...]
