NASA uses Cloud to land on Mars

NASA's Curiosity Mar's Mission uses Cloud Computing

Curiosity goes "Cloud" to land on Mars

Just Think how "NASA" is keeping up with Mar's Mission data - Cloud !

Few day ago, NASA sent one of the biggest services out there for the Mars Exploration Rover and Mars Science Laboratory missions. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory used cloud services to capture and store images and metadata collected during the trip to Mars.

Till now, Cloud Computing was used to send/transmit data packets across the world. Now NASA goes one-step beyond that and used Amazon Web Services to transmit data/Pictures across Solar System (From Mars to Earth). Believe it or not. It works. And the margin for Error is 0 %.

   

One step on Mar's , Giant Leap for Cloud Computing ?

What does Amazon Web Services have to say?

"Science data is growing at an exponential rate. Some upcoming instruments will produce terabytes of data every single day," Such a deluge would have left NASA "out of data center space," making the ability to provision cloud-based machines invaluable. As NASA uses the cloud to solve its own puzzles, opportunities for other applications naturally arise.

"We can provision a supercomputing cluster in the cloud that would qualify as one of the top 500 in the world" at a cost of "a couple hundred dollars an hour," AWS said. "Think of the possibilities."

More data, More Storage, More Cost, Difficult to manage --> Problemo ?
Solution --> Go Cloud !! :-)