Nerd Fun at JPL
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After the bike ride this morning, Susan and I went to the JPL Open House. Bein’ nerds and all, this was great fun.
We saw models of the three generations of Mars rovers, from the tiny Sojourner to the current Spirit and Opportunity rovers, and the relatively huge Mars Science Laboratory rover. They also had photos of Mars in 3-D. They gave all of us anaglyph 3-D glasses to use for viewing these.
We got our picture taken with the Sergeant missile. We also had a laugh at the “Rover Xing” signs. One building had a small exhibit of art projected on blocks of aerogel. And outside they had a rover demonstration where the rover drove over kids lying on the ground.
Finally, we got our picture taken in 3-D on Mars. It was a fun afternoon.
May 6th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Oh, how I wished I could have been there (here?) this past weekend. But I was out of town, so no JPL nerding out for me!
Well, not more than usual…