NEWEST MARS ROVER TAKES FIRST DRIVE
FLOBI TRIES TO MAKE YOU LESS UNCOMFORTABLE
July 26, 2010ANT DRINKING FROM A RAIN DROP – BOING BOING
July 28, 2010In what probably isn’t a tribute to Spirit (which drove backwards from March of 2006 on due to a broken wheel) Curiosity took its first drive test on Friday at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory where it’s undergoing assembly. Powered by a radioisotope thermoelectric generator, the SUV-sized rover will be carrying a much larger science payload than the current Mars rovers are able to. Scheduled to arrive on Mars in August of 2012, Spirit is now officially one meter closer to its destination.
One meter down, only 188,500,000,000 meters to go.
