mph: search

All systems go: NASA's Mars Lander safely touches down

After a nine-month, 422-million-mile voyage, followed by a delicate series of manuevers that slowed the Phoenix Mars Lander from about 13,000 mph to just 5 mph at touchdown seven minutes later, NASA tonight has placed a spacecraft on the Martian surface.

All systems go: NASA's Mars Lander safely touches down

After a nine-month, 422-million-mile voyage, followed by a delicate series of manuevers that slowed the Phoenix Mars Lander from about 13,000 mph to just 5 mph at touchdown seven minutes later, NASA tonight has placed a spacecraft on the Martian surface.

Dutch Robot Learns to Walk Like a Man

Flame weighs about 40 pounds (15 kg) and is 4 feet tall (1.3 meters). It moves at 1 mph and can negotiate slight steps down.

Great-great-grandmother, 96, does laps at Indy (AP)

INDIANAPOLIS - A 96-year-old great-great-grandmother says it was "fun" going around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway at 180 mph. "Oh, that was fun!" Edith Pittenger of Muncie said recently after taking a trip around the famous track in a two-seater Dallara with driver Arie Luyendyk Jr.

MARS MISSION: The Search for Life / Touchdown! Phoenix safe on Mars as cheers erupt

MARS MISSION: The Search for Life / Touchdown! Phoenix safe on Mars as cheers erupt / In minutes, it decelerates from 12,700 mph to 5, lands smoothly

Great-great-grandmother, 96, does laps at Indy

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- A 96-year-old great-great-grandmother says it was "fun" going around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway at 180 mph. "Oh, that was fun!" Edith Pittenger of Muncie said recently after taking a trip around the famous track in a two-seater Dallara with driver Arie Luyendyk Jr.

'Sculpture' Fires Beer Bottles at a Wall at 373MPH

Now this is what I call art. It's a sculpture/robot that flings empty beer bottles at a solid wall at 373 MPH, smashing them to smithereens. As the exhibit goes on during the day, a pile of green shards of glass piles up under the wall. It's a comment on rock and roll or something, but I'm a simple man. I just like seeing things smash. If you're like me, you can go check out the cannon at the SUPERDOME exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Hit the jump for another shot of the cannon in action.

From another universe

THE terror lasted seven minutes. That was how long it took for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Phoenix spacecraft to slow down from a screeching 12,600 mph to a sedate walking pace — its final speed when it landed safely in the early hours of 25 May on the pebble-strewn surface of Mars. For those seven minutes, Phoenix had to endure temperatures of 1,500° Celsius as it rushed through the Martian atmosphere, before deploying its braking parachute, jettisoning a protective shell and firing the 12 small retrorockets that finally delivered the softest of landings. It was the first successful soft landing on the Red Planet for 32 years and made all the more momentous as it successfully used technology which might well, one day, allow humans to land on the Red Planet.

Mars Touchdown Time

For nearly 10 months, Phoenix has been sailing through space, protected from the cold, sheltered from radiation as it heads to Mars. For most of the journey, Phoenix zipped along at 6,000 mph -- fast enough to finish the 2.5-hour http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/nascar-tracks9.htm

RoboVault: a high-security, automated storage facility

The RoboVault's long list of security measures makes us imagine Tom Cruise dangling over criss-crossing security lasers. Not only is the structure in South Florida made solidly out of concrete and reinforced with rebar and impact glass — all allowing it to thwart Category 5 hurricanes with winds up to 200 mph — but the 'Vault takes advantage of technologies such as retinal scanning, biometric scanners, heartbeat sensors and 24/7 video surveillance and monitoring. It sounds like an army wouldn't be able to break in, let alone blow it up.

A sailing robot to cross the Atlantic

The Times of London reports that seven robotic craft will compete in a race across the Atlantic Ocean in October 2008. One of them, ‘Pinta the robot sailing boat,’ has been designed at Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK. Pinta is expected to sail for three months at a maximum speed of four knots (about 4.6 mph or 7.4 kilometers per hour). Its designers hope the Pinta will become the first robot to cross an ocean using only wind power. This 150-kilogram sailing robot costs only £2,500 (US $4,900 or €3,200). The transatlantic race will start between September 29 and October 5, 2008 from Viana do Castelo, Portugal. The winner will be the first boat to reach a finishing line between the Northern tip of St. Lucia and the Southern tip of Martinique in the Caribbean.

Touchdown! Phoenix spacecraft lands on Mars

May 26, 2008 NASA has announced the successful touchdown of the Phoenix spacecraft on arctic plains in the north of the Red Planet. The completion of the 10 month journey was confirmed with the detection of a radio signal from Phoenix (a signal which takes more than 15 minutes to reach Earth) indicating that it had reached the Martian surface. The spacecraft reached speeds of approximately 12,000 mph before entering the top of the planet's atmosphere and beginning its decent towards a soft touchdown on its three-legs made possible by parachute deployment and finally, the use of controlled thrusters.

Day after dune, missing its duneness

dunestorm.jpg Hey, aren't dunes supposed to be, like, round? This newly-concave dune at Dorset Avenue in Ventnor had its middle carved out by that freakishly ferocious nor'easter yesterday that pounded our house overnight, flooded the roads that usually flood and made grocery shopping an Olympic event. I'm sure that Ventnor police officer found it amusing watching me hanging on to my shopping cart in 75 mph sustained winds in the parking lot, feeling imperiled for possibly the first time since I moved to the shore, but do I get a prize for my thoughtfulness in making sure the cart got back to the cart corral? (Sent it with the wind at my back, only way to do it). Still, schools were open and people went about their usual business, barreling their SUV's through two feet of water and taking note of trees on their sides, roots exposed.

Pieces of Ancient Earth May Be Hidden On the Moon

swestcott brings us a story from Space.com about the possibility of finding evidence for ancient Earth life on the moon. A team of scientists has published work confirming that meteorites originating from Earth could have remained sufficiently intact while colliding with the moon to allow the survival of biological evidence for life. Quoting: "Crawford and Baldwin's group simulated their meteors as cubes, and calculated pressures at 500 points on the surface of the cube as it impacted the lunar surface at a wide range of impact angles and velocities. In the most extreme case they tested (vertical impact at a speed of some 11,180 mph, or 5 kilometers per second), Crawford reports that 'some portions' of the simulated meteorite would have melted, but 'the bulk of the projectile, and especially the trailing half, was subjected to much lower

Search took 0.02 seconds.