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Nerds don’t need you
Last night nerds shut down the Internet. To be accurate, some clouds of sport and p0rn remained online, but the only tubes that mattered went through NASA, or to be more specific, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The NASA spokesperson was quick to apologize for the overload, however in true PR…
Mars rover landing sets off online celebration
After years of work culminating in “seven minutes of terror,” NASA’s Curiosity rover successfully landed on Mars late Sunday evening, setting off a celebration for not just the team behind it, but the online community that gathered to witness the event. As The Los Angeles Times reported, the announcement inside…
WATCH LIVE: NASA Curiosity rover landing on Mars
NASA’s largest Mars rover, Curiosity, is scheduled to land on Mars in perhaps the most complex landing on an alien world since space exploration began, according to the Guardian. NASA spent $2.5 billion on the project, and will explore whether the planet has ever had the potential to support life.…
Are we alone? NASA’s Mars rover aims to find out
Are we alone? Or was there life on another planet? NASA’s $2.5 billion dream machine, the Mars Science Laboratory, aims to take the first steps toward finding out when it nears Mars’ surface on Monday. The planet is Earth’s closest neighbor, and scientists have found signs of water there, hinting…
Mars ‘Curiosity’: Empty Pipelines and Promises
This Sunday night millions of people worldwide will be glued to their media delivery systems watching not (just) the Olympics, but the most ambitious and daring interplanetary landing ever. The Mars Science Laboratory created by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will land on Mars at 10:31pm PDT. The unanimous hope of…
NASA confident ahead of nail-biter Mars landing
NASA said all was well ahead of its nail-biting mission to Mars, with its most advanced robotic rover poised to hunt for clues about past life and water on Earth’s nearest planetary neighbor. On a two-year journey to seek out signs of environments that once sustained life, the landing of…
‘Cool geology’ ahead in NASA Mars mission
WASHINGTON — NASA said Thursday all was well ahead of its landmark mission to Mars, with its most advanced robotic rover poised to hunt for clues about past life and water on Earth’s nearest planetary neighbor. On a mission to seek out signs of environments that once sustained life, the…
Photos show U.S. flags on the moon are still standing
New photos from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaisance Orbiter Camera (LROC) reveal that most of the American flags planted on the moon during the Apollo mission series are still standing, according to Space.com. “It is now certain that the American flags are still standing and casting shadows at all of the sites,…
NASA and Microsoft team up for Xbox ‘Mars Rover’ game
With significant budget cuts for its Mars program looming, NASA is looking to shake things up a bit, and they’ve turned to the video game makers at Microsoft to help them do it. Available now on Xbox Live, “Mars Rover Landing” uses the mostion-sensitive Kinect camera to let users interact…
NASA’s Mars rover two weeks from landing
WASHINGTON — NASA’s Curiosity rover is on target to arrive on Mars on August 6 for a two-year mission to find out whether microbial life once existed on the Red Planet, the US space agency said. Landing the car-sized rover is of course no easy task, NASA scientists say. “The…
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