Curiosity
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Big Data The NASA Way
When the Curiosity rover arrived on Mars two months ago it was just about the best public relations exercise that NASA could have hoped for, short of actually landing a human on the red planet. Read More »
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How Amazon Web Services Helps NASA’s Curiosity Rover Share Mars With The World
NASA is a big fan of the cloud – in fact, the OpenStack open source cloud computing platform got its start there. So when NASA needed image processing infrastructure for the incredible pictures coming from Mars to Earth by way of the just-landed Curiosity rover and its mission to search for life on Mars, it’s not very surprising that the team turned to Amazon Web Services. Read More »
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NASA Achieves Data Goals For Mars Rover With Open Source Software
Since the landing of NASA’s rover, Curiosity, on Mars on August 6, 2012 (Universal Earth Time -- evening of August 5, Pacific Time), I have been following the incredible wealth of images that have been flowing back. I am awestruck by the breadth and beauty of the them.
The technological challenge of Curiosity sending back enormous amounts of data has, in my opinion, not been fully appreciated... Read More »
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NASA Launches Next Space Apps Challenge
International competition brings together developers from around the world to create software, hardware and visualization tools for space exploration missions. Read More »
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NASA Tells The World About Mars With AWS
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is the premier NASA center for the robotic exploration of space. JPL has sent a robot to every planet in the solar system. NASA/JPL is also leading the way in the adoption of cloud computing across the federal government. In fact, cloud computing is an essential part of the tactical operations pipeline for the Mars Science Laboratory mission... Read More »
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Why Humans Still Can't Go To Mars
Long-distance human spaceflight is, famously, a bust. So far, anyway -- no doubt we'll figure it out someday. But the reason we haven't sent humans on five-year missions seeking out new life and new civilizations isn't because of cost, politics, or lack of warp drive. The real reason is that astronauts would probably be killed by radiation before they met their first gas giant. Read More »
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