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#4: A Laptop Every Ten Years
September 28th, 2015 · 49 minutes
Jason and Stephen gush over more Pluto photos and wish some Mars hardware a happy birthday before interviewing Rachel Binx from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Guest Starring: Rachel Binx
This episode of Liftoff is sponsored by:
- Luminos: A fantastic astronomy app, 10 years in the making! Now with an Apple Watch app for skygazing!
- ISS Finder: A simple and beautiful way to track the International Space Station.
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Links and Show Notes
- The Rich Color Variations of Pluto - NASA
- Large version of Pluto photo
- Perplexing Pluto: New ‘Snakeskin’ Image and More from New Horizons - NASA
- India's 1st Mars Mission Celebrates One Year at Red Planet
- ISRO Mars Orbiter Mission Objectives
- ISRO Orbital Vehicle
- NASA's MAVEN Celebrates One Year at Mars
- Watching The Martian on Space Station
- Nine Real NASA Technologies in 'The Martian'
Interview with Rachel Binx
Rachel Binx is a data visualizer, developer, and designer. She works at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California.
- Rachel's website
- Jet Propulsion Lab
- Rachel Binx, Meshu/Gifpop! - XOXO Festival (2014)
- Rachel Binx: Making sense (and art) of big data - The Daily Dot
- Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity) - NASA
- Cassini
- SMAP (Soil Moisture Active Passive) Radar
- Dawn space probe