MARS LANDING AN INTERACTIVE ONE FOR PUBLIC.Byline: Tony Knight Daily News Staff Writer From a festival in the Pasadena Civic Center where Mars pictures will be broadcast on a 25-foot TV screen, to a 1,000-page Web site where armchair astronauts can ``mouse around'' mission control, there are many ways the public can interact with the Mars Pathfinder mission. Astronauts Buzz Aldrin Colonel Buzz Aldrin, Sc.D (born January 20, 1930 as Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr.) is an American pilot and astronaut who was the Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 11, the first lunar landing. , Sally Ride and Story Musgrave will be on hand at the three-day Planetfest, July 4-6, at the Pasadena Civic Center sponsored by the Planetary Society. A giant screen will broadcast NASA TV programming with video from mission control and Mars images relayed from Pathfinder as soon as they are processed and released. The festival will include appearances by mission scientists, prominent astronomers and famous science fiction writers. Children can use 16 computers to access remote rover sites around the world. Adults can tour eight rooms of cutting-edge Space Age wizardry wiz·ard·ry n. pl. wiz·ard·ries 1. The art, skill, or practice of a wizard; sorcery. 2. a. A power or effect that appears magical by its capacity to transform: in the Hall of Technology. Tickets are available from Ticketmaster. For information, call (800) WOW-MARS. The landing will be broadcast on KLCS (Channel 58), the Los Angeles Unified School District's television station. ``Mission Mars'' will be broadcast from noon to 6:30 p.m. A live feed from NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory “JPL” redirects here. For other uses, see JPL (disambiguation). Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a NASA research center located in the cities of Pasadena and La Cañada Flintridge, near Los Angeles, California, USA. in Pasadena will be viewable on all area PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, stations from noon to 2 p.m., said Linda Reavely, KLCS producer. JPL (language) JPL - JAM Programming Language. and NASA scientists have arranged for 20 Web sites at National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), civilian agency of the U.S. federal government with the mission of conducting research and developing operational programs in the areas of space exploration, artificial satellites (see satellite, artificial), research laboratories and universities around the world to mirror the JPL Mars Pathfinder Web site. The combined sites can accommodate up to 56 million hits per day, JPL officials said. For a list of mirror sites, visit the following Web address - http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/. The JPL Web site features about 1,000 pages, including real-time images from mission control and the nearby Mars Room, where mission engineers have placed a duplicate lander and rover in a sandy, rocky environment for testing purposes during the mission. The latest images and real-time data from Pathfinder are available, as well as lesson plans and teaching aids for teachers, maps of Mars and Viking images of the landing site. |
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