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The Mars Curiosity Rover Has Landed! Here's Mission Control When They Got Word
NASA's latest rover touched down on Mars with what appears to be a perfect landing. This is the scene from mission control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory when they got word that the Mars Curiosity...
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The First Available High-Res Image from the Curiosity Rover on Mars
The Curiosity rover landed safely on Mars in a picture-perfect landing sequence. But really, the proof is in the pudding, and by pudding, I mean pictures. The pictures aren't just something to look at,...
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The Curiosity Landing Already Has a Meme: NASA's 'Mohawk Guy'
9Gag.com/gag/4960372 As millions tuned in to watch the livestream and the television coverage of tonight's (successful) Curiosity landing, one Mission Control staffer stood out among the others: a...
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Watch the NASA Control Room React to Curiosity's Martian Touchdown
The survival of a robot provokes a scene of unbridled humanity. Last night, just after 10:30 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time, NASA's Curiosity rover touched down on Mars. For the NASA scientists, engineers,...
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How Did We Get That Incredible Photo of Curiosity's Descent on Mars?
Breaking down what the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter saw of our rover's descent. As the Mars Curiosity Rover descended through the atmosphere of Mars, humans on their couches weren't the only ones...
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How the Most Epic Mars Mission Gets Turned into a Viral Ad, in One Oreo
Oreo commemorates Curiosity. (NB: "Red creme currently unavailable.") Daily Twist/Oreo Among those celebrating the successful landing of NASA's Curiosity rover? Why, America's favorite sandwich cookie!...
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For Posterity: What It Was Like Watching Curiosity's Descent on Twitter
One thing I love about Twitter is the way that it expands your living room during momentous cultural events---the way it adds a layer of updates, jokes, links and analysis to whatever stream of images...
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From Sojourner to Curiosity: A Mars Rover Family Portrait
NASA's robots have gotten bigger, better, more productive, and more powerful. Ken Kremer of Universe Today highlighted a wonderful image that shows you the evolution of NASA's Mars rovers in a single...
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The First Image of Earth Taken From Space (It's Not What You Think)
A view of Earth from a rocket-launched camera, October 24, 1946 (White Sands Missile Range/Applied Physics Laboratory) The grainy, barely legible image above was taken on October 24, 1946, from an...
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Picture of the Day: A Pre-Planetary Pachydermic Proboscis
NASAGas, stars and even an pachydermic proboscis mix in this photograph of nebula IC 1396, which lurks within the constellation Cepheus. This emission nebula was photographed by terrestrial telescopes...
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The 'Golden' Ratio: The One Number That Describes How Men's World Records...
And six other facts about how the genders compare athletically.Florence Griffith-Joyner celebrates after winning the 100m dash at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. (Reuters)The vagaries of gender have been the...
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Pareidolia: A Bizarre Bug of the Human Mind Emerges in Computers
Humans have a tendency to see faces where there are none. So do computers. Are they more like us in their flaws? Wikimedia Commons This rocky hill in Ebihens, France, is, well, just that -- a rocky...
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What the Mars Rover Can Tell Us About Climate Change
Curiosity will hunt for signs of Martian climate change, which can help shed light on Earth's own. Scientists have made great strides in predicting what will happen to Earth's climate, but there is a...
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We Read the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's New Article on Social Media...
So you don't have to. (Service journalism!) Flickr/Nic McPhee As far as online encyclopedias go, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy may be the best. Created in 1995 by Stanford Professor Edward...
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All the Spammers in the World May Only Make $200 Million a Year
We all get a lot of spam. Just today, Gmail has neatly filed more than 100 messages into my Spam folder. When I look at the list of subjects, I wonder: How the hell could any of this actually make...
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Turn On Gmail's '2-Step Verification.' Now.
Yesterday's Wired account, by Mat Honan, of an "epic hacking" attack is fascinating, frightening, and instructive. You should read it. Here are some other things you should do, in ascending order of...
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Shots All Around! The World Wide Web Is Now Old Enough to Drink
The World Wide Web can buy a drink! But the World Wide Web cannot rent a car. Shutterstock/c. Twenty-one years ago, Tim Berners-Lee published the first webpage. Web page, in the parlance the time. This...
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Curiosity Rover's Home on Mars: A Powers-of-Ten Visual Explainer
A visual explanation of where our robotic explorer is sitting on the red planet. We look at this photo with awe. Even taking images through a dust cover and at lower than maximum resolution, the...
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Security Questions: The Biggest Joke in Online Identity Verification
When hackers broke into Mat Honan's Apple account last week, they couldn't answer his security questions. And Apple didn't even care. Wired When hackers broke into Mat Honan's Apple account late last...
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Curiosity's Martian Playground Is Technically Located in Pasadena
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory has a specialized sandbox -- complete with beach sand, brick dust, and volcanic cinders -- that's meant to mimic Mars. Google Maps Seventeen miles from downtown L.A., on...
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