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Still Working; Mars Opportunity Rover Takes a Shadow “Selfie”
By 2014.03.27 0 Comments Read More →

Still Working; Mars Opportunity Rover Takes a Shadow “Selfie”

Image Credit JPL JPL News Release: Late afternoon lighting produced a dramatic shadow of NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity photographed by the rover’s rear hazard-avoidance camera on March 20, 2014. The shadow falls across a slope called the McClure-Beverlin Escarpment on the western rim of Endeavour Crater, where Opportunity is investigating rock layers for evidence […]

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Planetary Resources Kickstarter Campaign Takes Off
By 2013.05.30 0 Comments Read More →

Planetary Resources Kickstarter Campaign Takes Off

In what is already turning out to be one of the more fascinating space oriented crowdsourcing efforts yet seen, Planetary Resources introduced what amounts to a public access prototype of its planned Arkyd space telescopes at a press conference yesterday.   The broadcast started late, was horribly garbled, and at times seemed more like the sort […]

Posted in: Crowdsourcing Space Exploration, Space Commerce
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