Part of an email forwarded to me by my dad about the NASA rovers on Mars
by V.E. on January 27th, 2007
filed under entertainment, favorite, ladyamedeus
“Our rover drivers, however, are nothing if not creative. If Mars doesn’t give us features to look at, they figured, we’ll make our own features. So recently, we’ve done a drive where the rover did a strange little dance as it moved along, scuffing the soil and weaving from side to side, making some of the strangest-looking rover tracks you’ve ever seen. (One of the maneuvers they came up with they called the ‘drunken sailor walk’.) It looks weird, but it works. We did 40 visodom tests on that drive, and 39 of them worked. So next time you see some strange-looking wheel tracks, it’s just the rover scuffing up the terrain so it can figure out where it is.”
See? Nerds can have fun, too… They have some much fun, it’s out of this world! LOL.
Okay, that was bad.
