Stories tagged “Lander”

• Martian Oops One

  It was late one night at the Jet Propulsion Laboratories in Pasadena California. Two graduate students were sitting at the control panel for the Viking Two Lander. Their job? To sit there and monitor the lander until the day crew came back. One of them...

  • Author: Radical Yellow Duck
  • Posted almost 3 years ago.

• Martian Oops Three

  Computers have really improved since the 1970’s. And one way you can tell that is by the amount of memory available for programs. It seems to be a fact of life that computer programs will expand to fill up all available memory and then some. And a re...

  • Author: Radical Yellow Duck
  • Posted almost 3 years ago.