I've been following MarsPhoenix on Twitter for a while, and was delighted to see a really neat use of Twitter -- people tweeting questions to the probe, anthropomorphized. A fun way for NASA to show what it's up to to a wide audience in a quick and accessible way.
So I'm even happier that someone tweeted a question asking what other NASA projects are also on Twitter. Here's the list:
- NASAKepler
- A search for habitable planets
- LADEE_NASA
- Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) is a NASA mission that will orbit the Moon and its main objective is to characterize the atmosphere and lunar dust environment.
- LCROSS_NASA
- Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS)
- LRO_NASA
- The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is the first mission in NASA's Vision for Space Exploration, a plan to return to the moon and then to travel to Mars and beyond.
Update:
And another, related space-twitterer: PlanetQuest
Good luck to all!
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Just wait until somebody figures out how to hack the probes so they parse the twits as commands coming from mission control.
Sounds like a project for you, Patrick. ;-)
Yeah, NASA won't mind that at all!
But then again, I vaguely remember reading about observatories providing a service that let's you look over the shoulders of researchers through the eyepiece (as if eyepieces were really there anymore!) Maybe we could tweet to the Hubble?
I've been following MARSPHOENIX too--great minds think alike, of course--and I too think it's a very cool use of the medium. See, this Web 2.0 stuff is all about imagination: stick horses with long tails in a big herd with lots of running, neighing, feeling our oats, and network effects.
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