NASA Orbiter Views Sites of Fiction Film's Mars Landings (MRO)

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http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4726

NASA Orbiter Views Sites of Fiction Film's Mars Landings
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
October 5, 2015

Images from a NASA Mars orbiter's telescopic camera reveal details of
real regions on Mars where a new Hollywood movie, "The Martian," places
future astronaut adventures.

Really? NASA PAO must not know what to do with itself these days. :-P

Jeff
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In article ,
says...

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4726

NASA Orbiter Views Sites of Fiction Film's Mars Landings
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
October 5, 2015

Images from a NASA Mars orbiter's telescopic camera reveal details of
real regions on Mars where a new Hollywood movie, "The Martian," places
future astronaut adventures.

Really? NASA PAO must not know what to do with itself these days. :-P

I think it's worse than that. I think they THINK they know what they're
doing. It's along the lines of:

"If we get just enough people interested in space, our budget will go back
to its Apollo highs"
"Look a space movie, let's hype it to get people interested in space"
"People like the movie, therefore our budget will go up."

Of course this syllogism is broken in so many ways.



Jeff

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