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What innovations from this vehicle can we expect to see trickle down into the consumer space?
THIS IS AWESOME, I WANT TO BE AN ENGINEER!
Images are up now on the raw feed. They're getting F5ed hard, so actually seeing anything may take a bit. http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/ Images are grouped by Martian solar days (sol 0 == day 0, length 24h 39.6m).
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Is that... a Tcl/Tk app being run in GNOME?
Maybe the legendary Xv they used on Sojourney? (by the photo looks like something like it, stil...)
I had the impression that the whole "control" room was nothing but show. Estimating the travelling times of a radio wave, nobody on earth could have had any control about the spacecraft, and none of the engineers in the control room could have done anything other than watch. So if anybody is more involved into the mission than I am ... is my impression correct, or were there actual fallback mechanisms that these peop…
Additionally, watching a room full of engineers "do their thing" does a lot to get the average layman excited about the research and science and may get schoolkids excited about the possibilities of space travel, STEM, etc.
I took those during landing sequence.. http://i45.tinypic.com/353eemc.jpg http://i46.tinypic.com/ej95s5.png http://i49.tinypic.com/2qicoqq.png http://i50.tinypic.com/2hd8j13.png edit: its just fun to watch those. also, according to NASA there is 500,000 lines of code behind those 38 steps.. would love to see some parts of it!
That's really cool. Would love it if they had some video, or alternatively made a visualization of the entire landing sequence using received data. Like for instance a video of the telemetry you took screenshots of.
I took those during landing sequence.. http://i45.tinypic.com/353eemc.jpg http://i46.tinypic.com/ej95s5.png http://i49.tinypic.com/2qicoqq.png http://i50.tinypic.com/2hd8j13.png edit: its just fun to watch those. also, according to NASA there is 500,000 lines of code behind those 38 steps.. would love to see some parts of it!
That's really cool. Would love it if they had some video, or alternatively made a visualization of the entire landing sequence using received data. Like for instance a video of the telemetry you took screenshots of.
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Is that... a Tcl/Tk app being run in GNOME?
That was my thought as well as I was watching the coverage. Not surprising given there are a lot of old school engineers at NASA/JPL.
What innovations from this vehicle can we expect to see trickle down into the consumer space?
First you need a time machine. These types of trickle down are not identified till much later. If you knew what it would be in advance you wouldn't need it to trickle down - you could just use or develop it directly.