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Cassini HD for the iPad lets you take a free trip to Saturn today

by Mel Martin (Sep 15th, 2012)

I continue to praise the variety of Astronomy apps that are available for iOS. Today, I call your attention to Cassini HD for the iPad, which is usually US $1.99, but is free today only. The app collects more than 800 striking images from the NASA Cassini Mission that did a close flyby of Saturn ...

iPhone more powerful than Curiosity Mars rover, but so what?

by Steven Sande (Aug 7th, 2012)

One of the recurrent Internet memes since the successful landing of the Curiosity Mars rover has been that the iPhone has more processing power than the computer onboard the rover. It's true -- but some of the numbers touted in the rush of blog posts have been flawed. Let's take a closer look ...

The role of the Mac at NASA and JPL is shown off by Mars Curiosity mission

by Mel Martin (Aug 6th, 2012)

My colleague Steve Sande touched on this subject of all the Macs at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in an earlier post, and I've been doing some digging to find out more about all the Mac love at our space agency and its field centers. JPL is managed by Caltech, but it falls under NASA's ...

Macs abound at NASA/JPL Mars Curiosity mission control

by Steven Sande (Aug 6th, 2012)

For those of us who stayed up late last night to watch the streaming coverage of the Curiosity rover's landing on Mars, it was a treat to see the huge numbers of MacBooks, iPads, and even iPhones that were in the control room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The ...