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How Curiosity Will Land on Mars, Part 1: Entry
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/06/22 07:19 CDT | 14 comments
When people first hear about how Curiosity will land on Mars, their first question always is: are they nuts? This is the first in a multi-part series describing how -- and why -- Curiosity will land this way, in excruciating detail.
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/06/20 02:40 CDT
Just a pretty global view of one of Saturn's flock of icy moons, newly processed from archival data by Gordan Ugarkovic.
Posted by Mat Kaplan on 2012/06/20 10:24 CDT | 2 comments
Okay, just the ones we know about. xkcd does it again.
Cosmoquest Science Hangout Wednesday June 20 2300 UTC: Ravi Prakash, Curiosity engineer
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/06/18 05:32 CDT | 1 comments
This Cosmoquest Science Hangout featured Ravi Prakash, Curiosity Entry, Descent, and Landing Systems Engineer. He explained how Curiosity will land on Mars, and why they've changed things since Spirit and Opportunity landed.
HiWishing for 3D Mars images, part I
Posted by Alfred McEwen on 2012/06/18 03:10 CDT
Hundreds of images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s HiRISE camera are publicly available, if you know where to look.
Posted by Jason Davis on 2012/06/16 12:08 CDT | 1 comments
China’s fourth human spaceflight mission got underway this morning after a Long March 2F rocket blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 10:37 UTC.
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