Sunday, August 5, 2012

Countdown as NASA's Curiosity nears Mars

Due to the signal time lag between Mars and Earth (it takes about 14 minutes for a signal on Mars to reach Earth), Curiosity will execute the landing autonomously, following the half a million lines of computer code designed by Earthlings.
Read it at Al Jazeera
Countdown as NASA's Curiosity nears Mars

6 comments:

Unforgiven said...

We are wheels on Mars and Curiosity is sending pix.

Beyond AWESOME, NASA!!!!!

Matt Franko said...

Despite the morons at the controls of the economy we sometimes are still able to "find the money" to do great things.... ;) Bravo!

Unforgiven said...

I thought the cost of $7 per citizen was very reasonable.

Matt Franko said...

John Carney is on CNBC right now saying this is a "waste of money"...

Tom Hickey said...

Right, they think that all innovation comes from the private sector, If had been privately funded with private debt, he'd be very happy, and if it were 100% funded with private investment he would be ecstatic. He would't anything else being "crowded out."

AndyCFC said...

Great stuff glad they didnt mix up US measurements and Metric this time ;)

reminds me of this...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jun/01/final-frontier-starship-enterprise-plan

No it doesnt need budget trimmings elsewhere.