The award for best science / science fable mashup of the week perish to NASA ’s newly landed Curiosity Rover , which minutes ago not only wishedthe late Ray Bradbury , author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles a happy birthday , but also announced that its landing sight will henceforward be known formally as “ Bradbury Landing ” :
https://gizmodo.com/r-i-p-ray-bradbury-author-of-fahrenheit-451-and-the-m-5916175
Happy birthday , Ray Bradbury ! My favorite Martian chronicler would have been 92 years old today
— Curiosity Rover ( @MarsCuriosity)August 22 , 2012
In tribute , I consecrate my landing place spot on Mars to you , Ray Bradbury . greeting from Bradbury Landing ! [ pic]http://t.co/74SU9URY
oddment made the announcement just minutes after completing its first successful private road on the surface of the planet . The photo below shows oddment ’s very first tracks on the Earth’s surface of Mars :
Carl Sagan would often refer tothe complementary dance that move on between science and science fiction . Few writer did more to connect these two spheres than Bradbury , as demonstrate by the touching video feature here , wherein he dictates his poem “ If Only We Had Taller Been ” to a Caltech lecture Charles Francis Hall , pack with NASA scientist and engine driver , on the eve of Mariner 9 ’s entry into Mars orbit .
https://gizmodo.com/carl-sagans-message-to-future-explorers-of-mars-will-co-5932534
MarsMars roverNASAScienceSpace
Daily Newsletter
Get the best tech , science , and acculturation word in your inbox daily .
news program from the hereafter , delivered to your present .
You May Also Like
