The latest robot to visit the red planet is built to withstand dust storms and temperatures that can melt steel during entry, descent, and landing. https://media.wired.com/photos/5bf5a7beec17240d1c046f94/master/pass/insightlanding.jpg
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Honda recalls more than 200,000 Accords and Insight hybrid cars in the US over software problem
Hollis Johnson/Business Insider Honda announced it was recalling more than 200,000 of its Accord and Insight hybrid cars in the US over software issues with the rearview camera. The Tokyo-based car company said that the issue hasn’t resulted in any crashes or injuries yet. Outside the US, Honda said it was recalling 14,000 of its […]
Man Utd boss Jose Mourinho reveals ‘nobody is happy’ in worrying insight ahead of Spurs
Manchester United boss Mourinho is under pressure to lift the doom and gloom mood that has already threatened to derail their Premier League campaign. The 55-year-old has cut a frustrated figure in recent times – still seething at Ed Woodward’s failure to sign one of Toby Alderweireld, Harry Maguire or Yerry Mina throughout the summer. […]
Honda’s New Insight Ad Doesn’t Make Sense
Honda has launched a new media campaign for the Insight, a model that stages its third reappearance for the 2019 model year. The media push frames other hybrids as ugly, boring vehicles you have to settle for in order to gain superior fuel economy. There’s a social media initiative that transforms everyday objects into something […]
NASA is launching a quake-hunting lander to Mars today — here’s how to watch the InSight blast off live
NASA/Bill Ingalls NASA’s Mars InSight lander is set to take off from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base on Saturday. The InSight will take six months to reach Mars, where it will drill into the red planet and measure marsquakes. This will be the first time NASA launches an interplanetary rocket from the West Coast. Watch […]
Why Is NASA’s InSight Mars Mission Launching from California?
This month, NASA will fire its first interplanetary mission from Vandenberg Air Force Base north of Los Angeles. Why the snub for Cape Canaveral in Florida? https://media.wired.com/photos/5aeb82755119b373bc450986/master/pass/insight.jpg
NASA makes flying to Mars look easy, but cross your fingers for InSight anyway
Enlarge / NASA Chief Scientist Jim Green discusses NASA’s InSight mission during a prelaunch media briefing. (credit: NASA) Weather permitting, NASA will send its first spacecraft to Mars since 2013 early on Saturday morning. The InSight mission, designed to study the interior of the Red Planet, is the agency’s first Martian lander—a stationary vehicle as […]
Why will the Queen attend Harry’s wedding but not Charles'? Royal butler gives his insight
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are having their royal wedding on May 19. Though the Queen, 91, has not confirmed her attendance publically it is widely expected she will be present at her grandson’s wedding service at St George’s in Windsor Castle. However, Her Majesty notably refused to be present at her son Prince Charles’ […]
2019 Honda Insight: The 50-MPG Civic Hybrid Returns – Official Photos and Info
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2019 Honda Insight: A More Civic-Like Hybrid Tries Again to Beat the Prius
-With the 2019 Insight, Honda is hoping that the third time’s the charm for this nameplate, which promises the future but hasn’t always been in tune with it. Nearly 20 years after the introduction of the original high-mpg featherweight Honda Insight—the first hybrid sold in the United States—hybrids comprise roughly 2 percent of the new-passenger-vehicle […]
