Mars Rover Rolls And Turns

Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 13, 2004 @07:28PM from the now-make-it-beg dept.

hcg50a writes "MSNBC reports that overnight, 'the golfcart-sized rover cut the final cord tying it to the landing platform that it came in on 10 days ago, then backed up about 10 inches (25 centimeters) and turned 45 degrees. These were the first maneuvers planned in preparation for having Spirit roll 10 feet (3 meters) down a ramp onto the Martian surface on Wednesday night or early Thursday morning.' The NASA Mars rover website has complete animations from numerous cameras of the 45-degree turn. Driver training was never this cool!"

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Re:Latest Mars images available thru apt-get by spacecowboy420 · 2004-01-13 19:47 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Ok, I use apt, but I am using fedora. Now I can imagine a couple of ways to do this, but is there an elegant solution already available for working with packages/repositories from different distributions?

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