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Rosetta Probe Reveals Martian Cloud Systems 26

Posted by Hemos on Monday February 26, 2007 @11:00AM from the looking-more-deeply dept.

MattSparkes writes "The ESA's Rosetta probe swooped around Mars on Sunday, completing a key manoeuvre in its 10-year mission to land on a distant comet. The 3-tonne probe came within 155 miles of the planet's surface, and took some incredible images that reveal cloud systems on the planet. "At this time of the Martian year, a large fraction of Mars' atmosphere is evaporating from the southern polar cap and will migrate to the northern polar cap during nothern winter. Over most of the Martian disk one can see large cloud systems.""

Submission + - Stable Open Source NTFS After 12 Years of Work

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irgu

on Monday February 26, 2007 @10:53AM

irgu writes: "Open source NTFS development started in 1995 by Martin von Loewis under Linux, which was taken over by Anton Altaparmakov in 2000. Two years ago Apple hired Altaparmakov to work on Mac OS X and made a deal with the team to relicense the code and return the new one, soonest in the spring of 2008. But the team also continued the work and Szabolcs Szakacsits announced the read/write NTFS-3G driver for beta testing last year. Only half year passed and NTFS-3G reached the stable status and has been already ported to FreeBSD, Mac OS X, BeOS, Haiku, 64-bit and big-endian architectures, and new CPU's!"

Bacteria To Protect Against Quakes 81

Posted by kdawson on Monday February 26, 2007 @09:30AM from the shake-them-cilia dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "If you live near the sea, chances are high that your home is built over sandy soil. And if an earthquake strikes, deep and sandy soils can turn to liquid with disastrous consequences for the buildings built above them. Now, US researchers have found a way to use bacteria to steady buildings against earthquakes by turning these sandy soils into rocks. 'Starting from a sand pile, you turn it back into sandstone,' the chief researcher explained. It is already possible to inject chemicals into the ground to reinforce it, but this technique can have toxic effects on soil and water. In contrast, the use of common bacteria to 'cement' sands has no harmful effects on the environment. So far this method is limited to labs and the researchers are working on scaling their technique. Here are more references and a picture showing how unstable ground can aggravate the consequences of an earthquake."

Submission + - NTFS-3G Version 1.0 Released

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @04:28AM

An anonymous reader writes: NTFS-3G is a free open source NTFS read/write driver. It's already available for over 60 Linux distributions and systems like FreeBSD, BeOS, Haiku and Mac OS X, to big-endian and 64-bit computer architectures, and to new CPU's like AMD64, ARM and MIPS.

Submission + - NTFS-3G going stable AND NTFS released for Mac

Submitted by JDShewey on Wednesday February 07, 2007 @04:48AM

JDShewey writes: The NTFS-3G project just announced that they will be going stable and have just released their first release canditate (NTFS-3G RC1) This comes shortly after NTFS support is announced for mac (as well as many other file systems) through MacFUSE which is the framework needed by NTFS-3G to mount.

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