http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (Phys.org)—A novel panoramic camera from Ricoh is under development and it is described as a step beyond compact and single-lens reflex (SLRs) cameras. Takaharu Asahina of the New Business Development Center, Ricoh, told DigInfo TV about the company's concept of an omnidirectional camera prototype. The camera shoots entire 360-degree panorama images with just one pass, just one click, and can then send them over to the user's mobile device, such as tablet or phone, via Wi-Fi. The camera has two fish-eye lenses, each covering 180 degrees. http://phys.org/news279350580.html Electronics Wed, 06 Feb 2013 05:23:36 EST news279350580 (Phys.org) -- From fresh rover tracks to an impact crater blasted billions of years ago, a newly completed view from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the ruddy terrain around the outcrop where the long-lived explorer spent its most recent Martian winter. http://phys.org/news260781442.html Space & Earth Fri, 06 Jul 2012 08:17:29 EST news260781442 (Phys.org) -- With its daily supply of solar energy increasing, NASA's durable Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has driven off the sunward-tilted outcrop, called Greeley Haven, where it worked during its fifth Martian winter. http://phys.org/news255809296.html Space & Earth Wed, 09 May 2012 19:08:39 EST news255809296 (PhysOrg.com) -- This self portrait from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows dust accumulation on the rover's solar panels as the mission approached its fifth Martian winter. The dust reduces the rover's power supply, and the rover's mobility is limited until the winter is over or wind cleans the panels. http://phys.org/news251714973.html Space & Earth Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:00:01 EST news251714973 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found bright veins of a mineral, apparently gypsum, deposited by water. Analysis of the vein will help improve understanding of the history of wet environments on Mars. http://phys.org/news242543413.html Space & Earth Thu, 08 Dec 2011 05:10:27 EST news242543413 A view of a memorial to victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center towers was taken on Mars yesterday, on the 10th anniversary of the attacks. http://phys.org/news235132607.html Space & Earth Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:37:13 EST news235132607 (PhysOrg.com) -- The initial work of NASA's Mars rover Opportunity at its new location on Mars shows surface compositional differences from anything the robot has studied in its first 7.5 years of exploration. http://phys.org/news234159191.html Space & Earth Fri, 02 Sep 2011 05:14:23 EST news234159191 (PhysOrg.com) -- A flat, light-toned rock on Mars visited by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover in 2005 informally bears the name of the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, who rode into orbit in the Soviet Union's Vostok-1 spacecraft on April 12, 1961. http://phys.org/news221828337.html Space & Earth Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:59:09 EST news221828337 This is an image of the meteorite that NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity found and examined in September 2010. http://phys.org/news205573732.html Space & Earth Wed, 06 Oct 2010 08:49:15 EST news205573732 (PhysOrg.com) -- In its six-and-a-half years on Mars, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity had never seen a dust devil before this month, despite some systematic searches in past years and the fact that its twin rover, Spirit, has seen dozens of dust devils at its location halfway around the planet. http://phys.org/news199634013.html Space & Earth Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:54:01 EST news199634013 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, now in its seventh year on Mars, has a new capability to make its own choices about whether to make additional observations of rocks that it spots on arrival at a new location. http://phys.org/news188584213.html Space & Earth Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:30:49 EST news188584213 (PhysOrg.com) -- The amount of electricity generated by the solar panels on Spirit has been declining for the past several Martian days, or sols, as a regional dust storm moved southward and blocked some of the sunshine at Spirit's location. The team operating the rover has responsively trimmed Spirit's daily activities and is keeping an eye on weather reports from observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. http://phys.org/news170526074.html Space & Earth Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:10:01 EST news170526074 (PhysOrg.com) -- Composition measurements by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity confirm that this rock on the Martian surface is an iron-nickel meteorite. http://phys.org/news168801850.html Space & Earth Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:24:44 EST news168801850 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have combined a trio of shots taken seconds apart through different colored filters to create a special-effects portrait of a moving dust devil on Mars. http://phys.org/news166807575.html Space & Earth Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:00:03 EST news166807575 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars rover Spirit, lodged in Martian soil that is causing traction trouble, is taking advantage of the situation by learning more about the Red Planet's environmental history. http://phys.org/news165164322.html Space & Earth Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:30:01 EST news165164322