The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Thursday that during the past month and a half, the total number of visits to its home page, which hosted images and video feeds from the two recent rover landings on Mars, was greater than the total population of humans on Earth. NASA said its home page received 6.53 billion hits–the number of times someone pulls up a Web site–surpassing Earth’s population of 6.3 billion people. The visitor numbers cover the period from Jan. 4, when the first rover, Spirit, landed, through Thursday.
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This is incredible, let me put some perspective on this. January 4th, through the 19th of Febuary is 46 days. This works out to:
141,304,347.826 million hits a day
5,887,681.159 million hits an hour
98,128.019 thousand hits a minute
1,635.447 thousand hits a second
That is a lot of traffic.