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Is there any parallel set of videos where they actually convey more than 10 bits of information? I'm not interested in listening to a fun synopsis of next chapt

Is there any parallel set of videos where they actually convey more than 10 bits of information? I'm not interested in listening to a fun synopsis of next chapter of "The story of Curiosity and the mountain". Is anyone? "We found an important boundary, and the rover is now next to the important boundary." That's wonderful. I was expecting to hear at least 2 words on why it was important but it never came. These update videos are a chance to also get technical, drill into details and explain the Curiosity mission piece by piece over a long period of time, perhaps in style of minutephysics. Seems to me as a bit of a missed opportunity.

markbnine 12y ago
All science news releases go through JPL: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/news/whatsnew/ http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/news/whatsnew/ But a science planning blog gets posted here: http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/ http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/ Also nytimes has a nice tracker. No science, but select raw images: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/science/space/mars-curiosity-rover-tracker.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/science/space/mars-curios...
- yanma 12y ago
  Sweet! Just wondering if there is any references to how the A.I onboard works? I have heard that the platform is semi-autonomous, with visual odometry for motion estimation, but could not find anything that describes the techniques in detail.