It looks like another candidate for my Amazon wish list. A thumping great book showing stunning photographs of the red planet, as taken by the recent US rover machines. The link here is to the Chicagoboyz blog site, which has a good review of it. There is also also a film about the exploration. Great stuff.
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Gentle Colleagues,
The actual position of the Mars rovers on the planet are provided to JPL by one of my colleagues at OSU. Prof. Ron Li. He gets no recognition for his work, which is vital to interpretation of the rover images.
Yours,
Bob
Bob,
Well, that’s deeply impressive because I’ve only just this last minute got back online in a very terrestrial manner. I was just about to hike up the road and buy a new router when shock horror the internet re-appeared. I find it best not to question such mysteries too deeply.
I guess though that the router was getting arsey because it’s worked pretty hard and it only decided to get working again when seriously threatened with a future in a landfill site. The moral of the story is that when all else fails, threaten your hardware.
But basically I couldn’t get the LAN to work and there were no ones or zeros flowing between my router and my three PCs! So given this morning’s antics and my inability to get data down 2m of ethernet cable I’m somewhat humbled to hear that your pal can get data from Mars.
Also, it’s a mile to the computer shop and I didn’t fancy the walk. But I guess that’s peanuts to the solar system.
I’m also curious. How accurately can they figure the position of a rover on Mars?