Using ‘Excess’ Equipment, SESDA 3 Animates the Martian Landscape
November 15, 2013
SESDA 3 staff supporting the NASA/GSFC Conceptual Image Lab led the creation of a video that depicts the transition of Mars from an ancient habitable world to a cold desert. The animation was created in collaboration with the new MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) mission spacecraft which is scheduled to be launched on Nov 18, 2013. The video, which has been widely distributed by national news and social media sites, was rendered entirely on computers that were recovered and recycled from excessed equipment.
More details are available at the following link:
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a020000/a020200/a020201/
