crowdsourcing | storytelling | citizenship
Peopleâ€&#x;s Insights: Volume 1, Issue 29
@MarsCuriosity
What is @MarsCuriosity? NASAâ€&#x;s latest robot rover, Mars Curiosity, shot into the spotlight as a NASA social media team live tweeted the end of its eight-month journey to the red planet and its successful landing in August 2012.
Illustration of Curiosityâ€&#x;s rock-blasting laser in action (photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
twitter.com/marscuriosity
Transmedia storytelling The story grew with daily chronological updates on Twitter (@MarsCuriosity) and Facebook, enriched with transmedia: links to mission reports, photos from Mars and NASA HQ, live streams.
1) twitter.com/marscuriosity 2) ustream.tv/nasajpl
Storytelling in real-time NASA has been covering the story of the $2.5 billion rover on Twitter since November 2008. The story will continue as Curiosity embarks on its two-year mission to find life on Mars.
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Tomorrow we‟re going to start exploring Mars. And next week and next month and next year, we‟ll be bringing new discoveries every day, every week, to all of you. - Dr. Charles Elachi, Director, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, NYTimes
Importance for NASA To increase public support and federal funding, it is crucial for NASA to communicate achievements and benefits, and to build an emotional bond with the public. Storytelling plays a huge role in this.
1) latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-mars-curiosity-nasa-budget-20120805,0, 3468758.story 2) vator.tv/news/2012-08-06-twitter-excitement-bubbles-up-crowd-sourcing-nasa-idea
Telling the story from outer space Fitted with 17 cameras, a science lab and a space transponder, Curiosity sends photos and data to Earth via two NASA Mars Orbiters, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Odyssey.
nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/malin-4.html
Storytelling to simplify science NASA ensured that the project would be accessible to the layman, and entertaining too, by merging storytelling tactics, sound effects and graphics with science in its videos.
“7 minutes of Terror” video created by NASA‟s Jet Propulsion Lab jpl.nasa.gov/video/index.cfm?id=1090
Involving more people NASA appealed to students and children through a vote-based contest to name the next Mars Rover, and with „Tweeters and Trekkies‟ by roping in William Shatner and Will Wheaton, of „Star Wars‟ fame.
1) marsrovername.jpl.nasa.gov/ 2) wsfa.com/story/19148990/william-shatner-and-wil-wheaton-narrate-new-nasa-marscuriosity-rover-video
Coverage of the landing On August 5, 2012, Americans gathered to view a special broadcast from NASA Mission Control in science centres, museums and Times Square. @MarsCuriosity live tweeted the landing.
NASA Mission Control team celebrates the successful landing. (Photo credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)
New Yorkers gather to view the broadcast of Mission Control at Times Square. (Photo credit: MSNBC)
Amplification of the story The landing was covered by global media, trended on Twitter, was featured on the daily Google Doodle, and inspired new memes. @MarsCuriosity added half a million followers within the first 24 hours.
mashable.com/2012/08/06/curiosity-lands
Flight Director Bobak’s mohawk made him an instant celebrity (via Instagram)
Emotional impact The landing marked a milestone in US space exploration. More importantly, the event helped revive the country‟s passion for space exploration and dreams of landing a man on Mars.
facebook.com/marscuriosity
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[The successful landing of Curiosity – the most sophisticated roving laboratory ever to land on another planet – marks an unprecedented feat of technology that will stand as a point of national pride far into the future. - Barack Obama, President USA (White House release)
More People’s Insights Weekly reports Every week, we dive into one topic for discussion on the MSLGROUP Insight’s Network and discuss insights and foresights, in three key areas: crowdsourcing, storytelling and citizenship.
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