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First TV Image of Mars Ever Was Made With Crayons [Space]
gizmodo.com - 5/26/2009
First TV Image of Mars Ever Was Made With Crayons [Space]
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What you are looking at here is the very first image ever taken of the surface of Mars. It was acquired by NASA's Mariner 4 using a television camera, and rendered using crayons . Look closer: After Mariner 3 failed to take images because of a hardware problem, Mariner 4 became NASA's next big ...
ASUS Mars GPU may be the world's fastest, definitely the best looking
dvice.com - 6/2/2009
ASUS Mars GPU may be the world's fastest, definitely the best looking
— dvice.com — ASUS decided to skip all the incremental one-upmanship that's a graphics card industry standard and knock it... out of the park with its Mars 295 Limited Edition GPU. The gorgeous pair boast a performance bump of 21% more power than the standard ... (more) ASUS Mars GPU may be the world's fastest, definitely the ...
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Mars in Crayon
Boing Boing Gadgets — Jesus Diaz: The people at the JPL were so excited to receive the images that they couldn't wait for them to be processed by the lab's imager. As the first picture was beamed down as a stream of 8-bit numbers--each point indicating a brightness point--they thought of a quick way to get an image straight away: Print the numbers indicating brightness in paper strips, put them together, and color them with pastel crayons.

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Mars in Crayon -- Boing Boing Gadgets — Boing Boing
On BBG: the amazing story of how color images of Mars emerged in crayon: The people at the JPL were so excited to receive the images that they couldn't wait for them to be processed by the lab's imager. As the first picture was beamed down as a stream of 8-bit numbers--each point indicating ...