Tag: Mars Science Laboratory

Two interesting allow you to become Curious?

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It was an intense time at Auckland Observatory watching live stream of the Curiosity landing on Monday sixth August 2012 on that day, that there were crowds in waiting for military marine style touchdown moment. Thinking back that moment in time was interesting to watch the same control room in which watch back successive landings of Sprit and Opportunity, looking back there was least three generations of rovers, two Sprit and Opportunity, then later Curiosity blue polo shirts are cool team!, whom have the same moment of excitement as they were landing awesomely on the Moon this time Mars for the first time like Apollo 11 did.

NASA-Eyes on the Solar System-Beta

This a web app is interesting, having found it on interestingly on Felicia Day’s tweet which she mentioned on NASA- Eyes on the Solar system, the application is very similar to the other apps of Star walk, and solar walk, the environmentally feel of the user interface, gives you real time translated computer simulation for mostly of the explorational probes position, also the Solar System of its Planets and moons, Dwarf planets. Asteroids, Comet positioning and spacecraft.

Also it’s quite helpfull to visualize where, how the process of the landing is performed in real timeish events and conditions.

One interesting thing about this Java based web application is it gives you directionally control of a 3d environment, changing the date and time view of what you would see during that temporal time stamp moment either it’s forward or past. Also it has its multimedia feed showing updates of each different item it has.

Like to know more check out the NASA –Eyes on the solar system.

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NASA-Explore Mars: Curiosity-Beta

This other web application came through a suggestion from a friend to check it out it’s pretty cool, it give you daily outline stories of what’s going on with Curiosity, also puts you in a 3D computer modelling environment of Gale Crater, where’s MSL- Curiosity (Mars Surveyor Lander) is home to for is duration off its mission, tanking around with its six wheeled self, exploring and adventuring where the team Curiosity at JPL takes it to.

Like to know more check out Explore Mars:Curiosity.

Like a bit of Curiosity and Grail?

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NASA-SPACECRAFT-3D

When I was browsing  through the Facebook feeds,  on the Apps store facebook page, I’ve stumble a pond on to this new Apple iphone and iPad app which based on AR (argument reality) and found it rather cute, reason been that you get to look at all sides of the two spacecraft one is Curiosity, and the other is Grail .  With one thing you’ll get the selection of the two hopefully with any given updated on the app will bring more AR items to it.

Firstly I’ve tried Curiosity, but before then I’ve  have to print out the Marker, by via Email or E-print, at then I decide to have the Marker Email, pretty much faster that way, due to that I’ve haven’t set up the printer to do E-print yet.  Later printing of the Marker page, I found Curiosity very much fun, than to Grail, due to that Curiosity has more animation components with the instrumentations arms reaching out with a menu to have the probe have the arm, mask, the High Gain Antenna, or just turn it around to every ninety degrees.  Same goes for Grail also but it has less functionality.

The NASA App is pretty much fun though, but it in be interesting given it have included other probes and mission vechicles such as the Space Shuttles, the rockets that lead up to the Saturn five programme Constellation,  and not forgetting the ISS ( International Space Station)  or SkyLab.

Like to know more of the Curiosity and Grail mission?

Developed by Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA.

Also like to know on NASA-SPACECRAFT-3D App.