Phoenix Lander Tweets From Mars

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Spotting the power of Twitter to keep people up-to-date in a concise format, scientists at NASA have programmed the Phoenix Mars lander to send Tweets with updates from the red planet. Actually, the Phoenix Mars lander is sending the info back to NASA where an employee updates Twitter. It would be pretty cool if the posts were coming directly from Mars.

The New York Times’ Kenneth Chang writes about the Phoenix Mars lander using Tweeter:

Whoever thought a NASA spacecraft could be so adept at social networking and Web 2.0?

For users of Twitter, a Web microblogging service, the Phoenix Mars lander has been sending pithy news “tweets” to the cellphones and computers of interested “followers.”

Excellent use for this new technology.

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Go Inside A Wind Turbine

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The future of American energy might be a blast from the past — windmills. All too often, it is easy to just think of the old fashioned farm windmill used to pump water out of a well. But, today’s windmills are high tech creations that are designed to produce huge amounts of energy by converting the power of wind into useful electricity for our homes.

Windmills are producing power in Indiana right now and in other locations around the nation.

Windmills. Photo by Anh Quan

Wouldn’t it be cool to take a closer look at what’s happening inside and around these giant windmills?

Luckily for us, the award-winning video below gives us a tour of these high tech energy generators that might be the solution for our desire to be energy independent.

Video: Take A Tour of Modern Windmills

Video: Earl Park Wind Energy Farm