A friend at NASA has sent us this curious document that reveal two things for the first time . One , it shows exactly where Curiosity bring down yesterday . The accuracy of the literal landing site compared to the target area is impressive ! *
And two , the NASA guys had a kitty on where it would bring , called Mars Madness 2012 :
Because we ’re nerd and do n’t really know anything about hoops , our billet pools calculate a slight different around here .
The name of the guy who succeed is Dan Vartolomei , an Structures and Configuration Engineer at Jet Propulsion Laboratory . Congratulations , Dan . Enjoy your $ 15 ! ( each of them put a buck each ) . And congratulations to the entire squad for landing so incredibly tight to place .
- This is the equivalent of shooting a bullet from the Empire State Building in New York to the Eiffel Tower in Paris and bump off the antenna right on its gratuity .
Update : And here ’s the prescribed estimate :
Gizmodo is get over the Mars Curiosity rover live from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena , California . break all the article here .
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