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NASA Panel Finds Fault WIth Curiosity Rover Project's Focus 51

The Curiosity Rover that's been exploring the surface of Mars for more than two years now has a lot of fans (and quite a few headlines here on Slashdot), but not everyone feels positively toward the project. Tech Times reports that NASA revealed on Wednesday that it has renewed the funding of seven ongoing planetary exploration missions but of these, the space agency's Planetary Mission Senior Review panel, which reviewed and rated these planetary missions, was particularly critical of the Curiosity, which also happens to be the newest and the second costliest of the seven missions. The panel is disappointed that given the capabilities of the Curiosity rover, the team behind it only intends to take and analyze eight samples in two years, which translates to two samples from each of the four units it will visit during its extended mission. The Curiosity is the only NASA tool with the capabilities to detect carbon, do in situ age analysis, and measure ionizing particle flux.

Comment Re:iOS 8 feature coming to help fix this more..... (Score 1) 88

what took them so long??

also can you block buying stuff but still let you buy $0 / free apps

the big issue was needing the same password to install free apps as well as buying stuff. Free should not ask for a password / pin so you can't end running up the bill very easy and to make getting free stuff easy.

At least they turned off the old 15 min free for all that let you put in pin / password to get free stuff and then also let you buy stuff without asking for it.

and they made it so you can't need to link a CC to get free apps / updates.

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