The Perseverance rover will no doubt make monumental contributions to science during its mission on Mars, but the ride-along Ingenuity helicopter is stealing the show right now. NASA’s ambitious flying drone has now completed its seventh flight on the red planet, and NASA confirms the robot encountered no issues as it traveled to yet another new landing zone in Jezero Crater. Not bad for a “demo” that was only supposed to fly a handful of times. NASA did not design Ingenuity to do science on Mars. Perseverance is bristling with advanced instruments and cameras, but Ingenuity only has a few imagers that it uses to fly around the dusty world autonomously.
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NASA launched Juno in 2011 on a mission to study Jupiter. It succeeded, sending back invaluable data and some truly stunning images of the largest gas giant in our solar system. Now, Juno is enjoying an with a focus on the planet’s rings and system of moons. NASA pointed Juno toward the moon Ganymede recently, and the spacecraft has just . Juno reached Jupiter in 2016, completing a series of highly eccentric orbits around the planet. This allowed the probe to avoid being fried by Jupiter’s intense radiation belts. NASA even opted to keep the spacecraft in its lingerie 53-day orbit of Jupiter early on due to engine problems.
In news that will surprise no one, GPU sales soared in Q1 2021. Sales defied historic trends and the market’s overall momentum is expected to continue through the back half of the year. That’s the word from Jon Peddie Research, who found GPU sales were up a whopping 35 percent year-on-year and down just 0.3 percent from Q4 2020. The typical decline in Q1 is 7 percent. AMD shipments were down 1 percent from Q4 2020, Intel shipments were down 1 percent (this reflects laptop sales) and Nvidia shipped 3.9 percent more cards. The fact that high demand hit in Q1 may explain why GPUs have been so hard to find.
Once again, AMD has introduced some rock-the-house workstation GPUs at competitive prices. The W6800 ($2249) and W6600 ($649) are designed to go head-to-head with Nvidia’s best. We’ve been hammering away with a W6800 and are impressed. We’ll relate what we’ve found, about both it and its smaller sibling the W6600, and thoughts about whether they are right for you. Spoiler alert: As with any GPU recently, a huge issue will be the actual street price, since none of them seem to be available at MSRP. AMD W6800, W6600, and W6600M by the Numbers AMD’s new workstation GPU family includes the W6800 and W6600 desktop cards and a W6600M for mobile devices.
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Billions of kilometers away, far beyond the planets, asteroids, and lesser clumps of rock is the Oort Cloud. Well, probably. The sheath of comets surrounding our solar system is still theoretical, but it matches the available evidence. A models the cloud in unprecedented detail, and that could help scientists understand how it formed. That, in turn, might tell us more about how and where the Sun came to be. The Oort Cloud is the last pit stop before you get to a neighboring star. Although the Kuiper Belt that’s home to Pluto, Eris, and other dwarf planets is distant, it’s still orders of magnitude closer than the Oort Cloud.
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