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It is actually quite deliberate. NASA and JPL are big on always communicating their work as a team effort, rather than highlighting individual contributors. As
by Anzate 8y ago
It is actually quite deliberate. NASA and JPL are big on always communicating their work as a team effort, rather than highlighting individual contributors. As a practical example, notice how, during critical events (anytime you have a live-stream from Mission Control), everyone in the room wears the same shirt.
Another fun anecdote on the "one NASA" philosophy (albeit at a different scale) is that the Pathfinder lander (if memory serves me right) had a JPL sticker visible from the cameras at landing. NASA was not impressed: although designed, built and managed by JPL, this was a NASA mission. So Curiosity (also designed, built and managed by JPL) only has NASA stickers - but the wheels have a pattern that spells out "JPL" in Morse code and is visible in the rover tracks.
- cjsawyer 8y agoThe holes were for (to paraphrase) “allowing sand to fall out of the wheels”. Very sneaky :)
- overlordalex 8y agoThis is not true - their original (and current) purpose is to calibrate the distance travelled by looking at the marks the tracks make - you can look at the distance between marks and use the circumference of the wheel to determine the distance travelled. The actual pattern meaning was snuck in by the engineers and the director was only told about it after he had approved the design.
- gitgud 8y agoThere's a reason everyone wears the same shirt now, after all the attention the guy got on the rosseta comet mission for his shirt. https://i.imgur.com/vEhcUjr.jpg https://i.imgur.com/vEhcUjr.jpg
- deepfriedbits 8y agoDifferent agency, though, right? NASA’s ethos predates the Matt Taylor situation.
- hiccuphippo 8y agoI hope everybody sports a mohawk after curiosity's mohawk guy got all that attention. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobak_Ferdowsi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobak_Ferdowsi
- alex_duf 8y agoBobak is so cool
- amiga-workbench 8y agoThat whole incident was such a farce.
- mirimir 8y agoI'm reminded of Caltech vs MIT. And DEI vs FEIF :)