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NASA Panel Finds Fault WIth Curiosity Rover Project's Focus
The Curiosity Rover that's been exploring the surface of Mars for more than two years now has a lot of fans (and quite a few headlines here on Slashdot), but not everyone feels positively toward the project. Tech Times reports that NASA revealed on Wednesday that it has renewed the funding of seven ongoing planetary exploration missions but of these, the space agency's Planetary Mission Senior Review panel, which reviewed and rated these planetary missions, was particularly critical of the Curiosity, which also happens to be the newest and the second costliest of the seven missions. The panel is disappointed that given the capabilities of the Curiosity rover, the team behind it only intends to take and analyze eight samples in two years, which translates to two samples from each of the four units it will visit during its extended mission. The Curiosity is the only NASA tool with the capabilities to detect carbon, do in situ age analysis, and measure ionizing particle flux.
NASA Panel Finds Fault WIth Curiosity Rover Project's Focus
This happened with Hubble too.
Better known as 318230.
It's a 3-trillion-dollar dog!
Tie their pay to productivity and provide bonuses to exceeding explicit, ambitious goals.
... to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.
Good idea. Maybe we could make a reality TV show about that.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Thought it was about projector focus.
Never mind.
Have gnu, will travel.
It's a 3-trillion-dollar dog!
Not just any dog through, it's a space-dog. And it has lasers, that has to count for something, too.