I’m sorry there is no update. Just lots of speculation. Because of the way it was initially presented to the media and subsequent backtracking by NASA it’s impossible to know if we should be hopeful or cynical:
Category Archive: Mars
Nov 23 2012
Mars Curiosity may have found something “Earth shaking”
Update: NASA isn’t saying what it is, still. But they have scheduled a presser for 3 Dec. Talk about firing up the rumor mill. By then Fox News will probably have a graphic up showing Obama-esque Martians coming for your guns. Is this it? We don’t know. No one’s saying what it is outside of the …
Sep 28 2012
Curiosity strikes paydirt
Mars Curiosity landed in the right place alright! Just a few steps from touchdown the one ton rover snapped this image showing what planetary geologists (Areologists?) say is a lead pipe cinch for an alluvial fan, i.e., freely flowing water:
Sep 14 2012
More incredible Curiosity EDL video
The creator of this one provides some details at TPM. Amazing pic of the sun below
Sep 13 2012
Curiosity to begin search for Martians
After a nail-biting entry and descent followed by firing off a few breathtaking images inside Gale Crater, Curiosity is about to begin the mission it was designed so well for. Prospecting for ancient biotic gold:
Sep 10 2012
Wet Mars may have supported life? Not so fast says scientist
While many planetary geologists think Mars would have been warm, wet ideal environment for primitive life, not every agrees. And they have some science of their own to back it up:
Aug 29 2012
Incredible Curiosity descent video
Souped up frame rate thanks to interpolation! Yay math!
Aug 28 2012
Curiosity has a really good set of cams on her
Mars Curiosity is like a super hero probe compared to her less endowed peers and this week she began proving it. While I’m not planetary geologist, that looks like the spittin image of marine strata exposed by some kind of erosion:
Aug 18 2012
Did I mention Curiosity has a laser?
And not just any old wimpy office presentation pointer laser, either. No, Cursiotiy’s ChemCam system includes ba serious, rock vaporaizing weapons grade zap gun intended to examine samples at the molevular level. Or fend off tentacled monsters with a thirst for human blood:
Aug 17 2012
Curiosity has a secret
Mars Curiosity is quite a machine, a lander, rover, mobile chemical laboratory and robot geologist. But its designers were human, so hidden in the wheels is a geeky tech-y joke. What is it?
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