Maestro - Explore Mars the NASA's way (on your PC)

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Maestro - Explore Mars the NASA's way (on your PC)

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MarsToday.com wrote:By visiting the Maestro website, you can download a scaled-down version of the program that NASA scientists use to operate Spirit and Opportunity rovers.

During the mission, updates will be released on this site containing real data from Mars that you can add to your copy of Maestro.

In order to use Maestro, your computer must meet the following minimum requirements:

- 256 MB of memory
- 100 MB of available disk space
- A Pentium 3 or equivalent processor (G3 on Mac)
- A 3D graphics accelerator (strongly recommended)
For some reasons, Maestro website is down now but you could still download the program. If you do download the program, take note that some users complaint that the program doesn't run quite well on PC with 256MB as it requires alot more memory.


References:

1. MarsToday.com
http://www.marstoday.com


2. Maestro
http://mars.telascience.org/
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Hi,
You can see the NASA "live" broadcast from NASA website now at:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Web.html

Enjoy and wish them good luck!!!! :D
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Yes, tuning in now and waiting excitedly for the good news! Good luck to them! :)
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Wow, the spacecraft has landed successfully on mars as at about 12:50pm Singapore time!! :)
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Hope their remote driving skill improve and the robot obstacle avoiding software is better than the Pathfinder.... :P
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