Did you hear that we touched down on Mars? Again. Late last night NASA’s rover Curiosity successfully carried out a very challenging landing on Mars so that it can explore the red planet and send data back to Earth.
How’d it get there? First there was a bunch of rocket science stuff that we don’t really understand, but the landing sequence was guided and watched by a bunch of NASA brainiacs on their MacBooks Pros. Who says hipsters are the only ones that use a Mac?
Here’s another picture of the NASA MacBook setup:
Source: Reddit
Buster Hein is a freelance writer who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Twitter: @bst3r.
5 responses to “NASA Used A Lot Of MacBooks To Get The Curiosity Rover To Mars”
Probably running Parallels or Bootcamp ;)
Looks like NASA run the whole landing operation inside a Apple store genius bar :)
lol those are old ones. well theres an example of apple quality!
Well, I could spot one badass guy on a Windows PC.
I was surprised to see so many macs but if you watch closely, you can see a lot are thin terminals connecting to a Citrix server. It seems they bought them for the classy hardware.