NASA employees are running the Mars Curiosity rover from home.
Two days after the space agency instructed its employees to
work remotely, its most remote employee sprang into action as the Curiosity
rover began drilling a rock sample.
This was made possible by what science operations team chief
Carrie Bridge called “classic, textbook NASA.” She explained:
“We’re presented with a problem and we figure out how to make things work.
Mars isn’t standing still for us; we’re still exploring.”
Operators are using headsets, monitors, and other equipment from home to remotely control the robot. Tasks take an hour or two longer than they normally would, but the rest is business as usual.
Paying forward the gift of creativity
Creativity is one way we express the divine image in which
we were created. In fact, acting creatively was our first action after we were
created.
Shortly after God made man and “every beast of the
field and every bird of the heavens,” he “brought them to the man to
see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature,
that was its name” (Genesis 2:19).
Artist Julia Cameron is right: “We are ourselves
creations. We are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves.
This is the God-force extending itself through us. Creativity is God’s gift to
us. Using creativity is our gift back to God.”
Maya Angelou added: “You can’t use up creativity. The
more you use, the more you have.”
These are unprecedented days on so many levels. Every one of
us is facing challenges we couldn’t have anticipated a few months ago. But an
obstacle can be an opportunity. One way we can join God in redeeming this
pandemic is by serving him and others in ways we were not doing before the
pandemic began.
Stay-at-home regulations can be an invitation to more time alone with…
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