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Blow Through Nine Months Of Mars Roving Photos In Just One MInute
Since it touched down in August, Curiosity has been taking heaps of pictures. We’ve already seen some of the best shots, but there are hundreds more where that came from.
Monster Machines: NASA’s Space Exploration Vehicle
After spending all that time, money and effort delivering a crew of astronauts millions of miles through space to some distant celestial body, do we really expect them to trundle around like a pack of schmucks once they get there? Not a chance. That’s why NASA’s next explorers will roll deep in the Space Exploration Vehicle.
Monster Machines: NASA’s Student-Designed Explorer Launches Today
Whether you think it’s our fault or not, the simple fact of the matter is that the Earth is heating up — so much so that last summer’s heat caused surface melting along an unprecedented 97 per cent of the Greenland ice sheet. Now, researchers are turning to an ever-ready solar rover to survey the damage.
Street View Hits Mars With This 4-Gigapixel Panoramic
There’s been no shortage of Mars pictures since Curiosity landed. We’ve got Martian mountains, rover selfies, the works. But thanks to a little image stitching by a clever dude back here on Earth, now we have Mars Street View, kind of.
Monster Machines: Battery-Powered Yeti Guides Antarctic Explorers
Moving people and supplies across the Great White South is treacherous, difficult and expensive, with logistical costs constituting as much as 90 per cent of an expedition’s budget — about $US125,000 a trip on average. And that’s assuming the convoy isn’t swallowed by an ice crevasse en route. This new radar-equipped rover could help the National Science Foundation save lives and millions of dollars a year on such expeditions.
A Fantastical Look At Fixing The Curiosity Rover
After spending roughly $US2.5 billion to build the Curiosity rover and deliver it to Mars, there’s no way NASA would let something as trivial as a mechanical breakdown or software glitch stop its journey — not when we could just send up a repair-bot to fix it.
Don’t Freak Out, But Mars Rover Curiosity Is Having Its First Big Problem
Considering what it’s involved, Mars Rover Curiosity’s mission has been going really well. Staggeringly well. But that couldn’t last forever. The rover has hit its first real road bump with a gnarly computer failure that’s going to delay all the science-ing for at least a week.
Damn, This Lunar Rover Video Is Fun
Watch as Apollo 16 astronauts John Young and Charlie Duke have a blast driving the lunar rover around the moon. According to NASA, the 16mm film became known as the “lunar rover Grand Prix”.
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