NASA makes 21.2 giga pixel image of Mars

With the U.S. space agency NASA could in last week's release of the hitherto most detailed picture of Mars' surface, which covers the entire planet.

The picture was taken of the aging Mars Odyssey spacecraft, which circled the red planet since 2001. For the task used Odyssey's THEMIS camerain total have taken 21,000 pictures to make a complete map of Mars.The solution of the image is 213,391 x 106,699 pixels, making it possible to see objects down to a size of 100 meters. There are photos that show much smaller objects, but this is not a global map.It is possible to explore the big picture from Mars Global Data Sets, w

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MWC 2010- Samsung Shark 2 features AMOLED

While it is clear that smartphones dominate the much-burgeoning mobile telephony, the MWC 2010 is there to remind us that this is an area that does not allow value judgments aside. Indeed, Samsung launching a new range of phones, called Shark, much less attractive to geeks but who can offer nostalgic for simpler phones, news to their liking. In this saga, we find the Samsung S5550 Shark 2.



Attention talking about simple phones, so conventional, does not mean that models will be of poor quality, quite the contrary. Thus, besides the correct size (48.7 X101, 8x14, 8mm), the Samsung S5550 Shark 2 has a range of interesting technical features.
Among these, there is a sliding keyboard, a 5 megapixel camera, a 2.2-inch AMOLED screen, the Bluetooth version 2.1, a 110MB internal memory expandable up to 8GB with a microSD slot and compatibility with multiple audio formats (including MP3, AAC, AAC +, WMA, MID) and video (including MPEG4).

For now, no details on the marketing (release date, price) are known.

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