Our climate models are about to get a lot more detailed. NASA’s Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) announced it’s almost tripling the peak performance of its Discover supercomputer, to more than 3.3 petaflops — or to be more specific, 3.361 trillion floating-point operations per second — thanks to an upgrade courtesy of SGI Rackable hardware.
The asteroid zoomed by Earth at a perfectly safe distance of around 1.8 million miles (2.9 kilometers).
Engineers expect to lose contact with the private US moon lander Odysseus on Tuesday, cutting short the mission after its sideways touchdown last week.
NASA announced Tuesday that a $32.7 million Capstone spacecraft intended to try out a skewed lunar orbit had lost contact, but agency engineers are confident