NASA
GIFs in the Olympics! GIFs in the election! GIFs, the web scribbler’s obsession of summer 2k12!
But here’s a rather apt use for GIFs: as a concise way of conveying a small, important moment. NASA’s Curiosity Rover tested one of its wheels for the first time yesterday, and transmitted the film back to scientists on Earth. They then turned the moment into a GIF, communicating the moment in its entirety and very little else. It’s a little filmic haiku. From space.
Below, recent Pictures of the Day:
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/08/picture-of-the-day-the-curiosity-rover-spins-its-wheel/261433/
