{"id":19725,"date":"2012-08-10T18:56:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T10:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/amazons-cloud-powering-nasas-curiosity-mars-rover\/"},"modified":"2012-08-10T18:56:28","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T10:56:28","slug":"amazons-cloud-powering-nasas-curiosity-mars-rover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/amazons-cloud-powering-nasas-curiosity-mars-rover\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon\u2019s cloud powering NASA\u2019s Curiosity Mars rover"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Amazon, the online super-retailer and South Lake Union Overlord, has the cloud computing system that best suits NASA\u2019s latest and greatest mission to Mars \u2014 storing images and data from the space rover Curiosity\u2019s mission.<\/p>\n

As reported by the LA Times<\/em>, NASA\u2018s Jet Propulsion Laboratory picked Amazon\u2019s web services for its Mars Exploration Rover and Mars Science Laboratory missions because there is just so much \u201clarge-scale data processing to be done.\u201d<\/p>\n

The JPL touted the speed with which images, videos and more could be uploaded to mars.jpl.nasa.gov for the public to view, and the Web infrastructure to support the data was built in two to three weeks within AWS, instead of months if the space agency had built one in-house.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this point, JPL\u2019s data centers are filled to capacity, so we\u2019re looking for ways to cost effectively expand the computational horsepower that we have at our disposal,\u201d Khawaja Shams, manager for data services at La Canada Flintridge-based JPL, told the LA Times<\/em>. \u201cCloud computing is giving us that opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

NASA\u2019s JPL has used other companies\u2019 cloud computing offerings in the past, including Microsoft, Google and Lockheed. Now, if only there were intelligent life on the planet, we could get Facebook involved in some Martian social networking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amazon, the online super-retailer and South Lake Union Overlord, has the cloud computing system that best suits NASA\u2019s latest and greatest mission to Mars \u2014 storing images and data from the space rover Curiosity\u2019s mission. As reported by the LA Times, NASA\u2018s Jet Propulsion Laboratory picked Amazon\u2019s web services for its Mars Exploration Rover and Mars […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4455,2927,190,21],"class_list":["post-19725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-amazon-web-services","tag-curiosity","tag-nasa","tag-space"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}