NASA Says There Are Still Easter Eggs on Its Mars Rover That Nobody Has Discovered:
NASA has been hinting that it hid two more Easter eggs on the Perseverance rover it’s currently steering around the surface of Mars — and that nobody has spotted them yet.
The space agency posted a few clues on Twitter, urging followers to investigate and uncover them before a big, on-theme Easter reveal this upcoming Sunday. NASA says that both hidden surprises can be seen in Perseverance’s collection of raw images. But because there are over 16,500 of those online, you may also need the hints that NASA has been dropping on Twitter throughout the week.
[...] “Hint on Easter egg #1: every vehicle has one. Hint on Easter egg #2: it’s in our nature,” NASA tweeted on Wednesday. On Friday, NASA followed up to mention that the second one is “‘wheely’ tricky to spot,” so, you know, do with that what you will.
Happy hunting!
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 03 2021, @03:08PM
Normally $25 million each, but the contractors gave them a discount for buying two or more.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 03 2021, @03:31PM (9 children)
Hey NASA, embedding Easter Eggs in stuff is SO last century. Grow up or die.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 03 2021, @05:15PM
On behalf of NASA, I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling - gotta make you understand. Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you.
Never gonna make you cry, never gonna say goodbye, never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by FatPhil on Saturday April 03 2021, @10:28PM (5 children)
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Perseverance’s collection of raw images:
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Shouldn't the ADA address this? Why can't I view this tax-payer funded information using a legacy browser that I'm comfortable with?
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 04 2021, @02:13AM
Maybe the next generation of NASA technical people are not privy to the legacy ways of doing things.
It wouldn't be the first time I've seen this happen.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 04 2021, @06:58AM (2 children)
hang on do you actually pay USA taxes?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 04 2021, @07:01AM
though i agree javascript not required to serve raw images.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Sunday April 04 2021, @10:32AM
But at least pat yourself on the back for interpretting my words correctly, they were chosen carefully for a reason. Alas, your parry - not a counter-argument, as it does not address the point in my argument - is without merit, as a financial entity legally I am inseparable from my partner, her debts are my debts, and she is a yank. So the plural "you" that applies to the pair of us has indeed paid US taxes.
And got stimmy checks - thanks Obama!
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 04 2021, @12:47PM
Tweets without Javascript:
https://nitter.dark.fail/NASAPersevere/status/1378022075261063171 [dark.fail]
https://nitter.dark.fail/NASA/status/1377267228089974791 [dark.fail]
https://nitter.dark.fail/NASA/status/1378016617397940235 [dark.fail]
JSON API for raw images of the mars2020 mission
Paged view of all images: (increment the page parameter to view next page of 50 images)
https://mars.nasa.gov/rss/api/?feed=raw_images&category=mars2020&feedtype=json&num=50&page=0&order=sol+desc&extended=sample_type::full, [nasa.gov]
Detailed info for each image: (replace id parameter with image id)
https://mars.nasa.gov/rss/api/?feed=raw_images&category=mars2020&feedtype=json&id=ESF_0042_0670681243_128ECM_N0031392EDLC00042_0010LUJ [nasa.gov]
(Score: 2) by NateMich on Saturday April 03 2021, @11:11PM (1 child)
Since this is NASA we're talking about, they probably started building it last century.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday April 06 2021, @04:12PM
To be fair, last century isn't all that long ago. Unless, you're talking about computers. Then you're going back to the age of the Gameboy "Advance", Game Cube, and notably the beginning of the age of PlayStation 2. Which also was the beginning of the Windows XP era.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 03 2021, @08:00PM
Easter egg hunts are discouraged due to the continuing COVID crisis