With the recent news release from NASA about the Mars Curiosity rover, and as a continuation of our previous post “Powering Mars Research”, Brendan Babb is here again to provide us with an exciting look into Jacket’s role in Mars research from the Curiosity rover . Brendan Babb and colleague Frank Moore, at the University of Alaska in Anchorage, work with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab to improve image quality and image compression of the Mars Rover images. Here is what Brendan had to tell us about the use of Jacket in his GPU computing challenges… Brendan Babb: I was thrilled to watch the new Mars Rover Curiosity successful landing with my visiting nieces and nephews. The new rover will take pictures, …