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Maybe it's just me, but can I make a request to others who are interested in the NASA Curiosity rover? Can we please stop linking to blog-o-spam and link to the
by randomdrake 14y ago
Maybe it's just me, but can I make a request to others who are interested in the NASA Curiosity rover? Can we please stop linking to blog-o-spam and link to the real sites, from NASA[1]? The sources are clearly provided, but the blog doesn't bother to link to the actual, full-resolution picture page[2], which provides full-resolution JPG or TIFF and additional information, in any way. I'm as interested in the mission as any other self-respecting hacker, but I'm tired of having to click through every time to get to the actual site. Considering the actual site contains real details and real pictures, from the horses mouth, as it were, it seems like we should all be making an effort to link to NASA whenever possible.
[1] - http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images/?ImageID=4372 http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images/?ImageID=4372
[2] - http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA16029 http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA16029
Edit: if the blog, in question, has real value to add to what NASA is supplying then, by all means, link to it. But for cases like this where the link doesn't really provide anything additional and leaves out important links like those to the NASA Photojournal page, it'd be better (IMHO) to link directly to the NASA page.
- itsclearleon 14y agoThey link to the photo journal at the bottom of the post as well as some other resources.
- randomdrake 14y agoThey link to the JPL multimedia image page. They do not link to the Planetary Photojournal page, where, one can find additional information and the various full-resolution options.
- nkoren 14y agoActually, in this case I'm glad they didn't. Photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov has gone, so I didn't have any way to see this image until finding this post on HN.
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