NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (which is on a mission to, amongst other things, map the moon’s surface as a precursor to future manned missions) was recently moved into a orbit of 25 km above the moon’s surface. One of the things that the orbiter did while in that orbit was to take the following image of the Apollo 17 landing site:
More information (and more images) are over at the NASA press release here.
We’ve had some issues within our department previously with the misuse of SVN. In particular, some folks were merging changes from their development branch to the trunk branch, then forgetting to commit the trunk branch – which would result in hell breaking loose a bit further down the line.
In an attempt to sort this problem out, we set up a war board system that monitors the trunk SVN repositories for any uncommited stuff. When it finds anything, it starts flashing alerts, and the developer responsible then has to drop whatever he’s doing and fix it. It’s worked well.
Until today, when we rigged it to additionally play the Star Wars Imperial March…