7 April 2021, 12:38 pm EDT By NASA Perseverance rover ( Youtube/ UNTV News and Rescue )
Space agency NASA has explained an image from the Perseverance rover that appeared to show a rainbow stretching across Mars sky.
The image appeared strangely akin to one that might be taken from Earth: a rainbow rising from the ground and ascending up into the air, contrasted against the harsh yellow of the rest of the image taken from the red planet.
NASA explains rainbow in Mars
However, a real rainbow is impossible on Mars, as the planet does not have the processes that can create rainbows, unlike here on Earth.
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Adobe s Photoshop team says that transitioning the app over to Apple Silicon was initially intimidating but made easier thanks to Apple s significant investment in developer tools.
On Wednesday, Adobe officially updated Photoshop to run natively on the M1 chip. A couple of days later,
Computer Worldspoke with Mark Dahm, the principal product manager for Photoshop, to get further details about the transition.
From the start, Dahm said that the initial scope of the project was a little intimidating, since the team wanted to ensure that performance on Apple Silicon wasn t compromised in any way. However, since Photoshop existed through the Mac PowerPC to Intel transition, Dahm said there were some familiar considerations.
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One might expect cutting edge NASA space exploration equipment to feature some of the most modern technologies available. While that understanding might be true with regard to materials science, propulsion, cameras, sensors, and other important space exploration equipment it surprisingly isn t in terms of the computer chips used by the likes of the Mars Perseverance rover. According to a recent report from New Scientist the Perseverance rover uses the same single-core 233MHz CPU that powered the bulbous multicolour iMac G3 which started shipping in 1998.
Specifically, the Perseverance rover is said to be powered by a single board computer (SBC) called the RAD750. This board is made by BAE systems and features a variant of IBM/Motorola s PowerPC 750 chip plus supporting components which work in extreme environments – it is hardened to withstand from 200,000 to 1,000,000 Rads and temperatures between −55 and 125°C.