Bob Collins
In the irrational exuberance that followed Sunday’s daredevil jump from 24 miles above New Mexico and Texas, Americans were a little too scientifically challenged in stating the significance of the event.
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Nature’s ‘October surprise’
For a short time today — too short to get a decent picture — the sky over Minnesota was wearing a pinstripe suit, thanks to the weather conditions that made obvious what is true all the time — there’s a highway over us.
NASA today released this nifty ‘movie,’ stitching together the high-resolution images of the Curiosity landing on Mars and adding audio from controllers.
The Arctic on the rocks
Now we’re getting to the good stuff. Today, the Curiosity rover delivered the first full-resolution images of its new home on Mars.
Getting a giant rover to Mars? Easy. Getting more women on the front line of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory? Hard.
An iceberg the size of Minneapolis?
The SpaceX people have just released this video of last May’s launch of their privately-built spacecraft to resupply the International Space Station.