NASA is making images from their new Webb Telescope available to the public on Flickr and other social media sites under very generous Creative Commons licenses. Talk about spectacular, the images are wonderful, go check them out.
I just found out this morning that NASA is about to launch a new Mars rover vehicle named Curiousity.
Curiosity weighs over a ton and is loaded with all sorts of scientific instruments. It is so big that they are going to lower it on the surface via a crane from a hovering craft above the surface. How NASA can do that from a gazillion miles away is beyond me!
Once there it will roll around on it’s six wheels, collect samples and engage aliens.
One thing I’ve never understood is how such a fragile machine that has to be assembled in a clean room can survive a thundering ride aboard a Saturn V rocket.
Used to be everybody was excited about space exploration, especially kids. We all wanted to be astronauts or scientists. Now most of the kids I talk with want to be video game designers.
Check out the NASA Curiosity site, lots of good stuff there for grownups, kids, and teachers.
