Mars, and the Curiosity rover now exploring it, are 120 million miles away. Back at mission control, rover cameras show a rocky incline, maybe ten feet ahead, near the path Curiosity is supposed to travel. How does NASA make ...
It has the feel of a crime scene shot—a grainy black-and-white photo with arrows pointing to where the salient evidence was found. Back shell, parachute, sky crane, heat shield, and at the center, Curiosity. But the absorbing image ...
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California — It was the picture-perfect precision during descent, the way that each milestone was reached and passed so seamlessly, the speed with which the 9-month voyage raced to its Martian destination, the apparent ease of it ...
It was a steamy summer night in New York City, rather like the one expected tomorrow evening and early morning Monday, when Apollo 11 landed on the moon and Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made history. For those of us fortunate ...
Near midnight of August 5, the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft will enter the Martian atmosphere at some 13,200 miles per hour. It has at most seven minutes to lose all that speed or the Curiosity rover it’s carrying will ...