This is so neat! They got video of the Perseverance Rover landing on Mars…..
Full News Conference:
Also check out all the pictures coming back at: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/images/ and https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/
Oh, just heard the rover’s cameras are running off of an Intel Commercial Computer running LINUX….first open source software on MARS!
From The Albuquerque Journal
If you have ever been to Philmont Scout Ranch like I have (three times: 1993, 1994, 1995), the story about an Amtrak change that will affect the Ranch (and those Scouts and Leaders going to it) is worth noting.
For more of my adventures at Philmont, Check out http://dankohn.info/~trail96/philmont/
https://www.sciencealert.com/earth-s-magnetic-field-flipped-42-000-years-ago-with-dramatic-consequences
maybe add servos for each finger and an arduino controller…….my own “Thing” if you remember the Adams Family.
