Short takes.(Mars rovers web site)(target practice video game)(testing the echo from duck quacks)(Brief Article)

Sensors Magazine, March, 2004

"I am flabbergasted. I am astonished. I am blown away ... Opportunity has touched down in a bizarre alien landscape ... the coolest geological field trip in human history ... this is exactly what it looked like in my wildest dreams ... I keep thinking this can't possibly be getting any better, and it just does"--Dr. Steve Squyres, principal scientist in the Mars lander project. We concur! Visit www.marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/and you will too.

* Researchers at MIT, still primarily a male institution, have concocted a video game ostensibly to benefit gents who suffer from poor aim in the bathroom. You're in Control players do their target practice at a computerized urinal outfitted with a sensor, and their performance is evaluated in an onscreen display....

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