Mar's Curiosity Mission Gale Crater Landing Site Named in Honor of Ray Bradbury

 

         

 

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced yesterday that it has dubbed the landing site of the Mars rover Curiosity “Bradbury Landing” in honor of sci-fi author Ray Bradbury, who's most popular work was The Martian Chronicles, which portrayed a human invasion of Mars.. It was the Curiosity science team that chose to honor Bradbury, who passed away back in June, and the announcement coincided with what would have been Bradbury’s 92nd birthday.

“This was not a difficult choice for the science team,” said Michael Meyer, NASA program scientist for Curiosity. Bradbury "inspired our curiosity and opened our minds to the possibility of life on Mars."*Bradbury attended Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech events throughout his life, and this week’s announcement was commemorated by the agency with a video of Bradbury reading his poem “If Only We Had Taller Been” at a symposium just before the Mariner 9 orbiter reached Mars in 1971.

 

            

Comments

[Trantorian]

RIP. <3 About Ray, guess these may explain a lot:

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2012/06/ray-bradbury.html

and

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jun/06/ray-bradbury-neil-gaiman-appreciation.

[Tosca Z]

and no one deserves it more. I'll bet that at least half of the scientists who made that Mars mission possible were inspired as children (maybe later) by Bradbury's 'The Martian Chronicles'. And I would suggest that we they search for evidence of life there, they might take another look at the Chronicles to remind them that we may not see what is there.

[Barsoomian]

It is unfortunate that the first 'Martian Chronicler', Edgar Rice Burroughs, was not honored for the landing site. The presence of his John Carter books in my grade school library are what have fueled my continuous investigation of the universe.

[Genital estetik]

I think mars photos very interesting , where are ufos ? :) why they leave :)