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The Martian Chroniclers, Good "New Yorker" Article About Curiosity
Tom Tamlyn
post Apr 25 2013, 09:39 PM
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The April 22 issue of the New Yorker includes an excellent and lengthy (11k words) article by Burkhard Bilger about Curiosity. It's not pay-walled, and it does a nice job of covering both the science and engineering. There are sympathetic profiles of Adam Stelzner and John Grotzinger.

I spotted one slight misstatement (describing the landing system as “find[ing] clear ground”), although I’m sure that the other Dave, et al., will find more nits. But all-in-all, Bilger did a very good job. It's a useful resource to point to for friends who want to know what the fuss is about, as well as worth reading for its own sake.

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My stepdaughter lives in Manhattan. Time to give her a call & ask her to steal a few copies for me...wink.gif


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- Tom Tamlyn   The Martian Chroniclers   Apr 25 2013, 09:39 PM
- - JohnVV   well if it did not "find" clear ground ...   Apr 26 2013, 11:57 PM
- - ToSeek   I thought the line "Forty spacecraft have bee...   Apr 29 2013, 02:51 PM
- - Phil Stooke   And really only two of them ever looked for such t...   Apr 29 2013, 04:30 PM
- - dvandorn   Curiosity isn't looking for living things, rea...   Apr 29 2013, 05:45 PM
- - Phil Stooke   True! Though I was thinking of 'looking...   Apr 29 2013, 10:28 PM
- - nprev   Guys, let's please just not go here at all, al...   Apr 30 2013, 01:18 AM
- - stevesliva   Incidentally, the cover of the magazine is pretty ...   May 5 2013, 06:24 AM
- - nprev   My stepdaughter lives in Manhattan. Time to give h...   May 5 2013, 06:12 PM

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