Follow the Regolith Challenge on twitter.com

There is now an official twitter feed for the Regolith Excavation Challenge. It was created to provide more timely updates from the field leading up to and during the competition, and also to provide an extra mode of interactivity. If you are already part of the twitter community and interested in space exploration, you may have noticed that several NASA missions have begun using the service with great effect. One of them has even surpassed the popularity of popular television personalities. Ultimately, I think twitter is a good way to keep people informed about space exploration since the complexity of space missions necessitates many smaller victories for each major milestone event that occurs. When these milestones can be years apart, filling in the gaps in between becomes an important part of telling the story. By the way, anybody twittering at or about the event should use the hash tag #regolith if you want us to see it.