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Aug092012

Video: How Curiosity made it to Mars in one piece 

DateThursday, August 9, 2012 at 4:01PM

If you thought Curiosity landing on Mars was pretty cool, check out this video that shows the extreme engineering and incredible planning that went into sending the rover to Mars. What's more, the computer that is running Curiosity is a heavily modified Apple Airport Extreme. That's right, a modified WiFi router! Based off a PowerPC 750 (PowerPC G3) chip clocked at around 200MHz with 256MB RAM topped off with 2GB of flash storage, how brilliant is that.

Source: NASA JPLNews

AuthorGadjo Cardenas Sevilla | CommentPost a Comment |
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