Remember that awesome, mega-viral Dumb Ways to Die video from earlier this month? Well, the folks over at Cinesaurus have come up with a clever, Mars Rover-themed parody of the video that takes a look at what cool and funny things the mechanical explorer might find on the Red Planet. Take a look a “Cool [...]

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Here is new 1080 HD video of MDL Curiosity’s descent to the surface of the planet Mars, and it will blow you away! This is a full-res version of the NASA Curiosity rover’s descent to the Red Planet, taken by the MARDI descent imager. This is a super-high-def look at what it was like to [...]

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The so-called Mars Mohawk Guy has become a viral sensation, and he’s even inspired President Barack Obama. “I, in the past, thought about getting a mohawk myself, but my team keeps on discouraging me,” Obama told scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in a phone call yesterday. “And now that he’s received marriage proposals and [...]

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Here’s an interesting look at the moment NASA’s Curiosity probe landed on the surface of the planet Mars. The video below captures the NASA TV stream along with the Eyes on the Solar System computer simulation that was using live telemetry data to show what was happening in near real-time. It’s pretty awesome seeing the [...]

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Here are your top stories for this Sunday, November 27, 2011: – Pakistan at odds with USA – NASA rover goes to Mars – NBA reaches tentative agreement to end lockout – President Obama goes book shopping

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LIFTOFF!  NASA‘s Curiosity rover, the world’s largest extraterrestrial explorer, blasted off toward Mars this morning in search of ancient signs of life. It will take about 8 1/2 months for Curiosity to reach the red planet in a trek of approximately 354 million miles. An unmanned Atlas V rocket pushed the explorer into space. Over [...]

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