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CommentsHey @NASA_JPL and @NASA - your chart says that the Viking landers were solar powered. Wrong. They had plutonium-238 RTGs. https://t.co/wbVvmYvnJx
— NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) December 1, 2018
Keith's 30 Nov note: People make honest mistakes on social media. I get that. But its hard to take the JPL science communicators very seriously when they make errors like this and then do nothing to fix them. I and others have pointed this out to JPL. Three days later and the incorrect tweet is still up. Either they do not care or they do not pay attention to detail. Its also becoming obvious that a lot of people who tweet for NASA have no real background on previous NASA missions. As such thousands of people have now liked an official NASA tweet that has several errors - one of them factually incorrect and totally germane to the point that JPL was trying to make i.e. "energy generated by a rover or lander on Mars".
Keith's 3 Dec update: JPL finally took their incorrect went down after letting it misinform people for 3 days. Here is what it looked like:
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Keith's 30 Nov note: People make honest mistakes on social media. I get that. But its hard to take the JPL science communicators very seriously when they make errors like this and then do nothing to fix them. I and others have pointed this out to JPL. Three days later and the incorrect tweet is still up. Either they do not care or they do not pay attention to detail. Its also becoming obvious that a lot of people who tweet for NASA have no real background on previous NASA missions. As such thousands of people have now liked an official NASA tweet that has several errors - one of them factually incorrect and totally germane to the point that JPL was trying to make i.e. \"energy generated by a rover or lander on Mars\".\n![\"http://images.spaceref.com/news/2018/power.tweet.jpg\"](\"http://images.spaceref.com/news/2018/power.tweet.jpg\")
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