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Mars and Me
Personal blog · marsandme.blogspot.comscience
Mars and Me is a personal blog at marsandme.blogspot.com about science. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog as a diary by Scott Maxwell, a driver of the Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers. One commenter recommends it to Mars rover fans.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The unofficial diary of a Mars rover driver, five years delayed
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-05-04
What Hacker News says?
https://marsandme.blogspot.com/ is Scott Maxwells blog about driving Spirit + Opportunity
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on “SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit”HD video would also be competing with science data for both storage and transfer time. If you read the blog of the MER driver at http://marsandme.blogspot.com/ you can see this tension already play out sometimes, both in scheduling nice panoramic pictures and managing the data storage until a transfer window opens. Science normally wins. :) One of the surprising thing to me about the internet response to curiosity i…
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on “This is what Curiosity saw as it landed on Mars”Recommended reading for Mars rover fans: a diary of a Mars rover driver. http://marsandme.blogspot.com/
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on “Mars rover reaches Endeavour crater, finds signs of ancient Martian water”