NASA Claims Mars Smash Hit
News The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Thursday that during the past month and a half, the total number of visits to its home page, which hosted images and video feeds from the two recent rover landings on Mars, was greater than...
[February 23, 2004, 7:40]
Distant Suns - Grand Tour 3D Screensaver
Downloads Grand Tour 3D now comes with Phobos and Deimos, the moons of Mars, and features the Mars Rover landing sites. Watch the moons of Saturn in their daily dance around the majestic ringed world, and watch Earth rotate under your feet.
[February 2, 2006, 19:56]
Google Sponsors Robotic Race To The Moon
News The contest invites private teams from around the world to build a robotic rover capable of roaming the lunar surface for at least 500 metres and then sending video, images and data back to Earth, among other feats.
[September 14, 2007, 15:12]
Taking Graphics Technology To Mars
News The chipmaker developed one of the key technological advances used in the Mars Exploration Rover Mission. An Nvidia-designed graphics system assembled at NASA's control centre collects the thousands of points of terrain data the Rover gathers every...
[January 26, 2004, 10:40]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog NASA has agreed to extend the Rover missions for another year from October, so it's Martian Martinis all round and on with the show. The engineers behind the Rover missions are quite clear on how they did it: you make sure you know how your system...
[August 11, 2006, 19:15]
WorldWide Telescope Puts The Universe On Your PC
News Remember, this is a telescope simulation so it doesn't give details a Mars rover could. The WorldWide Telescope is a rich web application that accesses high-resolution images taken by ground- and Earth-orbiting telescopes such as the Hubble Space...
[May 20, 2008, 12:54]
Putt-Putt Goes To The Moon
Downloads That's the challenge for Putt-Putt and his friend, Rover, a lonely little lunar terrain vehicle left behind by the astronauts. Help Putt-Putt Build a Rocket, Make a Friend, And Get Back to Earth! What if you landed in a strange place and had to get...
[September 13, 2002, 16:33]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog In practice, it's almost happening: while I had to hang on the phone to find out what was going on with Magellan a few years back (that was the probe to radar-map Venus), I pretty well watched the Mars Rover do its thing live on a JPL website.
[February 5, 1999, 16:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News In practice, it's almost happening: while I had to hang on the phone to find out what was going on with Magellan a few years back (that was the probe to radar-map Venus), I pretty well watched the Mars Rover do its thing live on a JPL website.
[February 5, 1999, 16:30]
