Collaborate Disseminate
It’s always fun to look over aerial and satellite maps of places we know, seeing a perspective different from our usual ground level view. We lose that context when it’s …read more Continue reading Putting Perseverance Rover’s View Into Satellite View Context
There was a lot of enthusiasm surrounding Mars arrival of Perseverance rover, our latest robotic interplanetary explorer. Eager to capitalize on this excitement, NASA JPL released a lot of information …read more Continue reading A Technical (But Not Too Technical) Explanation of Landing Perseverance Rover On Mars
There’s a special kind of anxiety that comes from trying out a robotic project for the first time. No matter the size, complexity, or how much design and planning has gone into it, the first time a creation moves under …read more
Continue reading NASA’s Perseverance Rover Makes Its First Martian Tracks
A lot of annoying little hacks are needed to keep our integer-based calendar in sync with a floating-point universe, and the big one, leap day, passed us by this week. Aside from the ignominy of adding a day to what’s already the worst month of the year, leap day has …read more
Jezero Crater, site of a Martian paleolake, is on the shortlist of landing sites for NASA’s Mars 2020 rover. Continue reading Megafloods on Mars Carved Giant Canyons Into the Red Planet