When bears come to call
For a while yesterday, we had a lot of helicopters circling over work. None of us knew why. Come to…
Category: Space
Yuri's Night at the Griffith Observatory
Last night, I went up to Griffith Observatory with some friends, to catch talks by George Takei and Ray Bradbury…
JPL is not in Texas
Memo to ITWire: JPL is not in Texas. I know these American states get quite confusing, and Texas has some…
Cosmos at JPL
The Pasadena Star-News ran an article about JPL's supercomputing capability on Monday. The article caught my eye since my structural…
Two bits, four bits, six bits, inertia
I guess I missed this story when it got posted originally. But, I have friends who keep me in the…
Mars Redux
With the announcement yesterday about MGS finding evidence of flowing water on Mars, we had a number of news vans…
Bjarne Stroustrup on the Mars Rover Software
Some software is actually pretty good by any standards. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project….
An Update on Opportunity and Spirit
The San Francisco Chronicle has an update on the status of our two Mars rovers. Defying all the odds, the…
Postcards From Mars
Jim Bell, who is the lead guy on the MER PanCam team, has a book coming out soon called Postcards…
Next, baseball games will only last eight innings
One of my friends emailed today, and was rather indignant that one of her planets was getting taken away. I…