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How NASA Will Bring the Phoenix Mars Mission To the Web

Posted by Soulskill on from the real-time-feed-of-real-angry-martians dept.

lgmac brings us a story about how NASA will bring information from the Phoenix Mars lander to the internet in the coming days. CIO Magazine speaks with JPL's chief knowledge architect and others about how they'll provide massive amounts of data from the lander to suit the needs of an audience ranging from professors to 8-year-olds. We've been discussing the Phoenix mission for quite a while now. The landing is on schedule for Sunday at roughly 5PM PDT. "'In previous missions, a system like this didn't exist and people were sharing images via external drives,' Bitter says. Some of the images are put up immediately and captioned, or sent to museum audiences, while others are made part of huge mosaic pictures that display the majesty of what the NASA spacecraft encounters, she says. In addition to the sheer volume of data that must be sifted through, challenges included the large, dispersed team, Holm says. 'The content management system has to be easy to use and agnostic,' she says, 'It's all about speed and accuracy of data.' Video on the Web represents one of the biggest changes for modern-day missions for the public, Holm says. 'There's a visceral response we get from people. They feel like they're really there.'"

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  1. Re:This means one thing... by DaveM753 · · Score: 2, Funny

    more Mars conspiracy theories by idiots interpreting the data! You mean Mars doesn't need women?

  2. "How NASA Will Bring the Phoenix Mars..." by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...with a web cam.

  3. I'm feeling it by SEWilco · · Score: 4, Funny

    "... They feel like they're really there."

    Can't... breathe...

  4. Re:Here's hoping... by Concerned+Onlooker · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's all worked out. This time they're not using units.

    --
    http://www.rootstrikers.org/
  5. Late Breaking News! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    > 'There's a visceral response we get from people. They feel like they're really there.'

    The Red Planet stands steadfast under the guidance of the Council of Elders.

    K'Breel, speaker for the most Illustrious Council of Elders, made the following comment:

    The ones from the third planet claim to be Masters! They claim to have sent their foulness on a Trip! The one the Monkeys call "Holm" speaks of 'visceral' experiences! Her species stands condemned by its own words!

    When a journalist suggested that the approaching contraption was merely an agglomeration of spare parts left over from an invasion craft of a design that had already been easily defeated, K'Breel immeditaely appropriated the quisling journalist's gelsac for use as a visual aid to illustrate that the concepts of 'visceral experience' and 'spare parts' were not mutually exclusive.

    (/we haven't forgotten you, TMM!)

  6. NASA on livejournal by dodecalogue · · Score: 2, Funny

    NASA rover updates in the form of teen-girl livejournals. Opportunity's latest update is over a year ago, spiritrover's is even older, unfortunately.

    http://opportunitygrrl.livejournal.com/ http://spiritrover.livejournal.com/

  7. Re:World Wide Web by NCG_Mike · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wondered if it was possible to bounce an e-mail around until the domain, "mars.net" appeared and send their postmaster a greeting from the past... "All your base... oh forget it".