NASA and JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) released this new video to explain the unbelievably complicated procedures by which they hope to land the Curiosity rover on Mars: Why so complicated? My favorite blogger Emily Lakdawalla begins a multi-part series today, promising to explain this in great detail. There is no better person out there to [...]
Live streaming video from all over the Earth! Choose your vantage point if your location is clouded out.
Some astronomical phenomena will look very much the same regardless of your choice of vantage point. The Orion Nebula will look the same as seen from any point on the Earth from which it is visible. Indeed, it would look the same from anywhere in the solar system. It is so distant that moving around [...]
