Think it's nifty when your carrier deigns to provide your smartphone with that long awaited OTAupdate? That's nothing. Over the weekend, NASA's Curiosity rover will be receiving its first long-distance OTA update -- all the way out there on Mars. The goal is to transition both redundant main computers from software suited for landing the vehicle to software optimized for surface exploration -- such as driving, obstacle avoidance and using the robotic arm. NASA calls it a "brain transplant" and points out that the software was actually uploaded during the flight from Earth. Now can someone please enable OTA downloads for the human brain? We'd really like to know kung fu. PR after the break.
2 comments:
I watched the landing, the amount of energy at mission control was superb. People went crazy, It's amazing what you can do with a few billion dollars...
This is so cool, this project has been incredibly interesting and it's been great to watch and read up upon, here's hoping that these searches get some proper results.
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