NASA Morpheus is demonstrating its new landing system

 

While the arrival of Mars Curiosity is what else has been busy this month NASA, the agency has also been busy doing other things such as trying to Morpheus, the new landing system.
Morpheus is equipped with two key technologies for successful landings: a system that detects obstacles and a proponent of methane, which could not only be used during landings, but also during space travel, and also obtain methane appears to be a problem through fields of ice on the moon so much as on Mars. It is also estimated that every year, the International Space Station and discarded much methane produced to fill the tank of Morpheus.
The obstacle detection system is used to find a safe spot to land, without large rocks or cracks or anything like that.

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Greek athlete is expelled from the Olympics after a tweet

 

The athlete Papachristou Voula, Greek triple jump champion, will have to leave the Olympic venues in London and return home after making an offensive tweet last Monday. The declaration of the athlete on Twitter was considered racist by members of the Greek government, which prevented it from representing the country in competitions.

The tweet was: "With so many Africans in Greece, at least the West Nile mosquitoes (which transmit a disease) can eat food from their own land."

One of the three parties that form the basis of the Greek government - the Democratic Left - ordered the athlete in a statement:

"Humor and racist jokes offensive to human lives are not tolerated by socidade Greek and can not thrive in Greek athletics. The least the Olympic committee can do now is to revoke the right of Voula Papachristou to compete in the Olympics," he says. "Watching on TV, she can make all the jokes that she wants, but is not sure she will represent Greece in London."

Papachristou apologized after the fact. "I am very ashamed of what I did, though he did not want to offend anyone or infringing human rights," he said.

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