{"id":5575,"date":"2012-08-10T19:56:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T00:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5575"},"modified":"2012-08-10T19:56:35","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T00:56:35","slug":"nasa-upgrades-mars-curiosity-software-from-350m-miles-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5575","title":{"rendered":"NASA upgrades Mars Curiosity software &#8230; from 350M miles away"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;We need to take a whole series of steps to make that software active,&#8221; said Steve Scandore, a senior flight software engineer at NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. &#8220;You have to imagine that if something goes wrong with this, it could be the last time you hear from the rover.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/9230151\/NASA_upgrades_Mars_Curiosity_software_..._from_350M_miles_away\">NASA upgrades Mars Curiosity software &#8230; from 350M miles away &#8211; Computerworld<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Curiosity, while working on Mars alone, needs to be told what it will do every day &#8212; move across the bottom of the crater, zap a rock with its laser, scoop up a soil sample. And once a team of NASA scientists make the daily decision as to what the rover will do, programmers have to begin furiously working on up to a 1,000 different commands that will be uploaded to the rover.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We need to take a whole series of steps to make that software active,&#8221; said Steve Scandore, a senior flight software engineer at NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. &#8220;You have to imagine that if something goes wrong with this, it could &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5575\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[513,342,512],"class_list":["post-5575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","tag-nasa","tag-software-upgrade","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5576,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5575\/revisions\/5576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}