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Science Eye-Candy

High-speed video of droplets of liquid nitrogen rolling across a hot surface, demonstrating something we’ve all seen while cooking but probably didn’t know had a name — the Leidenfrost Effect:

From Wikipedia:

The effect can be seen as drops of water are sprinkled into a pan at various times while it is heating up. […]

January 16th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Miscellaneous, Science & Engineering | One comment - (Comments are closed)

NASA Gives Opportunity Free Will

Okay, not really. But they are giving it the ability to autonomously select science targets based on general guidelines:

The new system, which NASA uploaded over the past few months, is called Autonomous Exploration for Gathering Increased Science, or AEGIS and it lets Opportunity’s computer examine images that the rover takes with its wide-angle navigation […]

March 24th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Space Science, Space Technology, Useful Technology | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)