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“We didn’t expect everything to be so amazing.” Perseverance sent a video of a solar eclipse on Mars
NASA’s Perseverance rover sent back footage of a solar eclipse as Phobos, one of Mars’ two moons (along with Deimos), crosses the surface of the sun.
The eclipse lasted just over 40 seconds and was captured on April 2, the 397th Martian day or sol of the mission, by the new-generation Mastcam-Z camera installed on the Perseverance rover. It is worth noting that Phobos is about 157 times smaller than the Moon.
Thanks to the new camera, Perseverance was able to focus and film the first such video of a solar eclipse involving Phobos, all at high frame rates. The Mastcam-Z is also equipped with sun filters that act like sunglasses to reduce light intensity.
“I knew it was going to be good, but I didn’t expect it to be this amazing,” said Rachel Howson, one of the Mastcam-Z development team members who runs the camera.
You can see details of the shape of Phobos, such as ridges and bumps in the lunar landscape. You can also see sunspots. And it’s great that you can see this eclipse exactly as the rover saw it from Mars.
Mark Lemmon, planetary scientist at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado
As Phobos orbits Mars, its gravity exerts a slight tidal effect on the interior of the Red Planet, slightly warping the rocks in the planet’s crust and mantle. These forces are also slowly changing the orbit of Phobos. As a result, geophysicists can use these changes to better understand how malleable the interior of Mars is and learn more about the materials of the crust and mantle.
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Slim metal body, 7000 mAh, 10.5 inch IPS screen, 6/128 GB for $150. Chuwi HiPad X Pro introduced
The Chinese brand Chuwi, known for its tablet computers, has a novelty – the HiPad X Pro tablet, which replaced the HiPad X. The device received a larger screen, four speakers instead of two, and improved cameras.
The IPS display is characterized by a diagonal of 10.5 inches and a resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels. The maximum brightness is 360 cd/sq.m. The software platform of the device is Android 12, the hardware platform is SoC Unisoc T616 with eight cores (two Cortex-A75 and six Cortex-A55). There is only one memory configuration – with 6 GB of RAM and 128 GB of flash memory.
The front camera is characterized by a resolution of 8 megapixels, the main camera uses a sensor with a resolution of 13 megapixels. HiPad X Pro received a metal case with a thickness of only 7 mm, the weight of the tablet is 500 grams. The battery capacity was 7000 mAh, the cost of Chuwi HiPad X Pro is $150.
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Attraction of unheard of generosity. Aorus FO48U 48″ OLED 4K Gaming Monitor Drops $670 in the US – Nearly Halved in Price
Large monitor-TVs with a 48-inch OLED panel from well-known computer hardware manufacturers could not appear on sale for a long time after the announcement, but eventually they appeared, and now they can even be found much cheaper than the initial price. So, the American retailer Newegg immediately reduced the cost of the Aorus FO48U by $670. As a result, the price almost halved: from $1,500 to $830.
Although the device is advertised as being 48 inches, the OLED screen actually measures 47.53 inches diagonally. The frame rate is 120 Hz and the resolution is 3840 x 2160 pixels. The monitor provides coverage of 98% of the DCI-P3 color space and 130% of the sRGB color space.
The Aorus FO48U is configured with a KVM switch, three speakers with a total power of 50W, one DisplayPort 1.4 and two HDMI 2.1 connectors, a USB-C port (for KVM) and a pair of USB 3.0 Type-A, an RJ-45 port.
Xiaomi continues to churn out stable versions of MIUI 14 for its devices outside China. Now Xiaomi 11T and Poco F4 have received such firmware. True, not everyone will be able to install it, but only participants in the proprietary Mi Pilot beta testing program.
The MIUI 14 stable for these models is based on Android 13. The firmware is 3.5 GB in size and includes the December Android security updates. It is noted that the firmware for Xiaomi 11T is MIUI 14.0.3.0 TKWMIXM and it is available in all regions (global version), the firmware for Poco F4 is MIUI 14.2.0 TLMEUXM and it has been released only in Europe so far.
Slim metal body, 7000 mAh, 10.5 inch IPS screen, 6/128 GB for $150. Chuwi HiPad X Pro introduced
The Chinese brand Chuwi, known for its tablet computers, has a novelty – the HiPad X Pro tablet, which replaced...
Attraction of unheard of generosity. Aorus FO48U 48″ OLED 4K Gaming Monitor Drops $670 in the US – Nearly Halved in Price
Large monitor-TVs with a 48-inch OLED panel from well-known computer hardware manufacturers could not appear on sale for a long...
Xiaomi 11T and Poco F4 receive MIUI 14 stable version
Xiaomi continues to churn out stable versions of MIUI 14 for its devices outside China. Now Xiaomi 11T and Poco...
The first PCIe 5.0 custom SSD with 10 GB/s read speeds went on sale in Japan. The price is impressive
Few have heard of CFD Gaming, but meanwhile, it began selling a high-speed solid-state drive with support for the PCIe...
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