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Showing posts with label Curiosity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Curiosity. Show all posts
Friday, April 19, 2013
Sunday, August 05, 2012
First MSL Images From Mars
Here are the first couple of images from Mars, a shadow of the machine looking forward and a view of the rear left wheel. Amazing!!!
Friday, August 03, 2012
CBC: How to watch the Mars rover landing
Get info here from CBC about how to watch the landing of the Mars Science Laboratory's robot, Curiosity. There are a bunch of options, and that CBC article contains a ton of links. NASA coverage starts Sunday at 8:30pm PST, and the landing is two hours later.
Don't expect much awesome Mars imagery during this event. Mostly it's going to be a bunch of tense mission specialists in front of screens at various NASA locations around the US alternately biting their nails, crossing their fingers, and knocking on wood. Fully half of all missions to the surface of Mars have crashed.
In addition, round-trip light-time to and from Mars right now is about 28 minutes, so it's impossible for NASA to receive data from the spacecraft and respond with timely commands. Re-entry is totally autonomous, and landing at Mars will take about seven minutes. We'll hear about it at the speed of light--14 minutes later.
And then there will be great joy, or great sadness.
And if there's great joy, it will be another number of hours before the rover powers up, checks its health, and starts returning pictures.
And then: All eyes on Mars!
Don't expect much awesome Mars imagery during this event. Mostly it's going to be a bunch of tense mission specialists in front of screens at various NASA locations around the US alternately biting their nails, crossing their fingers, and knocking on wood. Fully half of all missions to the surface of Mars have crashed.
In addition, round-trip light-time to and from Mars right now is about 28 minutes, so it's impossible for NASA to receive data from the spacecraft and respond with timely commands. Re-entry is totally autonomous, and landing at Mars will take about seven minutes. We'll hear about it at the speed of light--14 minutes later.
And then there will be great joy, or great sadness.
And if there's great joy, it will be another number of hours before the rover powers up, checks its health, and starts returning pictures.
And then: All eyes on Mars!
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Friday, May 11, 2012
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Friday, March 09, 2012
Thursday, March 08, 2012
Wednesday, March 07, 2012
Monday, March 05, 2012
Monday, February 20, 2012
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Bret Victor On Invention, Ethics, And A 'Principle Driven Life'
A computer conference presentation by Bret Victor, an Apple "human interface inventor," that shows what a paradigm shift looks like. Computer nerds will love this, but I think a far broader audience than that will be inspired...
Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle from CUSEC on Vimeo.
Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle from CUSEC on Vimeo.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Stoopid Cool
...starts about 1:15, and check out http://www.frdrk.org for more about the music...
Chinese Scenes from Base-Book - Matt Gerdes on Vimeo.
Chinese Scenes from Base-Book - Matt Gerdes on Vimeo.
Monday, January 30, 2012
Define Fanatic
Philosopher George Santayana defines fanaticism as...
"...redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."
To Winston Churchill...
"...a fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
"...redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."
To Winston Churchill...
"...a fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
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