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NASA Mars Rover: Visualizing The Red Planet With NVIDIA Quadro Graphics
White Papers Scientists interactively plan rover activities using 3D photorealistic reconstructions of the surface. NASA lands two rovers on Mars and receives photographic image data from the surface. The data transmissions from Mars involve massive amounts of...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
3D Mars Spirit Rover Simulator
Downloads Drive the Mars Spirit Rover over the Martian surface. Experience the thrill of discovering new hills and rocks as you explore the surface in this 3D simulator. Watch as the Martian day passes into evening, and climb the slopes to look into the...
[January 20, 2004, 12:01]
VRMars-Spirit - The Red Planet Mars 3D
Downloads Virtual reality astronomy software presenting the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit Mission (the years 2004-2007). See the places visited by the Mars Rover in the way like you were there yourself. It gives an impression of being on the surface of Mars.
[May 13, 2008, 23:01]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Friday 23/1/2004As I type this, I'm watching the clock and anxiously waiting for the next scheduled attempt to communicate with the Mars rover. Good luck in getting the thing back, chaps, and let's hope the second rover lands safely this weekend.
[January 23, 2004, 12:55]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Fourteen degrees South, 175 degrees East, to be exact, where Mars Rover Spirit is patiently sitting out its second winter parked on the Low Ridge Haven outcrop. The engineers behind the Rover missions are quite clear on how they did it: you make...
[August 11, 2006, 19:15]
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]
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]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
Blog That Rover runs off a 2MHz 80C85 processor -- the same as in a Tandy Model 100 notebook, and around half as powerful as the processor in a ZX Spectrum -- and talks back to the lander via a cut-down walkie talkie and a 2400bps radio modem.
[July 12, 1997, 9:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
News That Rover runs off a 2MHz 80C85 processor -- the same as in a Tandy Model 100 notebook, and around half as powerful as the processor in a ZX Spectrum -- and talks back to the lander via a cut-down walkie talkie and a 2400bps radio modem.
[July 12, 1997, 8:00]
C++ Creator: It's Bigger Than Ever
News Sun Microsystems has touted the use of Java in the Mars Rover, but Stroustrup claimed that C++ was also used. For example, C++ was used for scene analysis and route planning in the Mars Rover autonomous driving system, according to Stroustrup.
[April 22, 2005, 14:20]
Open Source Developers Provide 'glimmer Of Hope'
Talkback I was at a presentation at OSCon last summer, where team members of the Mars Rover program demonstrated their software. It's mostly built upon Linux and other open source platforms. So the quote from the person who disagreed actually supports the...
[April 22, 2005, 18:28]
Images Of Mars Screensaver - Volume 1
Downloads Based on images sent back from rover missions to Mars, the Images of Mars Screensaver - Volume 1 offers 80 high quality views of Martian terrain at 1024x768 resolution with 120 configurable transition effects.
[February 25, 2006, 15:01]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback It does it better and it also exists in the current Mars rover.Now that's scalability " That would explain why both Mars Rovers are currently screwed up dute to "technical problems" Bascule whines: "Scalability - 2003 running on 32 processor 8Gb...
[January 30, 2004, 7:04]
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. Distant Suns - Grand Tour 3D Screensaver is a high-speed, full-motion, solar-system simulator using OpenGL technology and accelerated...
[February 2, 2006, 19:56]
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. Somewhere near the Martian North Pole is the proposed destination for the Mars Phoenix lander, which is scheduled to touch down on 25 May.
[May 20, 2008, 12:54]
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]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I am baff, I am surprised", said Steve Squyres, scientific director/conductor of the Rover mission. For a couple of days now, NASA has been trailing a very important press conference, due at 7 p.m.this evening UK time, when it promises to unveil...
[March 5, 2004, 16:20]
Open Source Developers Provide 'glimmer Of Hope'
News For example, I would dearly love to have a good look at the [proprietary] code running in the Mars Rover. It has to be good - it's been running on Mars for 15 months and has to be debuggable remotely.
[April 22, 2005, 11:25]
Texas Instruments Accelerates Digital Signals
News Dalsa, which created the image sensors for the Mars rover Spirit, uses TI DSPs in digital movie cameras. Texas Instruments plans this week to unveil digital signal processors that run at 1GHz, in an advance that will probably help the company to...
[January 19, 2004, 9:25]
