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I'm getting old and starting to reconsider some of the positions and issues I've tried to champion over the years. Scene from “NASA TV Capture of MSL Curiosity Rover Landing on Mars I was reminded of this last night, while Michael Coghlan, from Adelaide (where it was the next morning) was interviewing me for their [...]
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What a beautiful video by Mark Rober, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory: "I was able to work on NASA JPL's Curiosity Mars Rover for 7 years. This video is an attempt to capture what it felt like to have 7 years of your life vindic... Read Post

Just a quick reminder that, if everything goes to plan, Nasa’s mobile Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), the massive 900kg rover Curiosity, is scheduled to land on the red planet at 6.30am [BST] tomorrow morning.  As the Curiosity Rover... Read Post

Video link: An artist's animation of how MSL and Curiosity Rover will land on Mars. Courtesy NASA JPL. This week, Boing Boing visited NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for a peek inside the clean room where NASA's next Mars rover, Cu... Read Post