Live Webcams from The NASA Desert Rats
NASA Desert Rats Live webcams Online From Meteor Crater
“Two webcams are active (approximately) from 11:00am to 10:00pm EDT. The Desert RATS is a NASA-led team of research partners working together to prepare for human-robotic exploration.”
Editor’s note: There will be a live webcast on Thursday, September 14, 2006: 2:00 pm-3:00 pm EDT (not listed on ESMD’s calendar)
Editor’s 13 Sep update: NASA HQ PAO tells me that the points made here (see below) are valid and that they are looking at a redesign of the ESMD website. This is, of course, good news – but what baffles me is how such a simple task as putting a single link on a website is so very difficult for NASA to do. This ain’t rocket science – its just HTML. Why one person (me) can do this – yet NASA with all of its resources can’t – is even more baffling.
NASA tests Linux-based planetary surface exploration robots, Linux News
Editor’s note: There is no mention whatsoever about the NASA Desert Rats on the home pages of ESMD or SOMD, NASA’s Missions Page or NASA’s Human Spaceflight page, nor is it mentioned on the home pages of several of the centers participating in this effort i.e. JSC and KSC. There is a page on GRC’s website – but I needed Google to find it. There is a press release from 1 September listed on NASA’s Breaking News page – but it offers no links to these live webcams or any of the project’s webpages.
This is not the first time NASA has mounted one of these overtly visible, exploration-related activities, issued a press release, and them promptly forgotten to provide any further information. The last time they ignored such a project already well under way was NEEMO. Here we go again.
And NASA complains that people don’t understand what they do. Small wonder, given that they routinely hide the good stuff that people can easily understand.
If you want to know how to see all the things these folks will be doing, you need to check this page at the NASA Digital Learning Network – hosted at New Mexico State University. The webcasts start on 12 September – but don’t count on NASA’s Education or Exploration Offices to let students and teachers know – and paln ahead.
