NASA's Ingenuity helicopter breaks altitude record on 59th Mars flight | Space
The little chopper rose 66 feet (20 meters) above the red dirt during its Sept. 16 sortie.
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Crying over the mars rovers
oh to be a little robot sent to another planet to learn and learn and sing yourself happy birthday until you can’t anymore
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Phobos solar eclipse captured by the Perseverance Mars Rover
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New Display at Mission: SPACE in EPCOT
Guests visiting the Mission: SPACE attraction at EPCOT in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., may notice a new addition created through the combined magic of Walt Disney Imagineering and NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover team.
Guests visiting the Mission: SPACE attraction at EPCOT in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., may notice a new addition created through the combined magic of Walt Disney Imagineering and NASA’s…
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The Ingenuity Mars helicopter has reestablished contact with NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover following two months of radio silence.
The comms dropout was expected. Following Flight 52 on April 26, the rotorcraft landed in an area where a hill blocked communication between it and the rover. And while 63 days is a long time to wait for the results of a flight, data indicates all is well with the mighty helicopter, and Ingenuity may fly again soon.
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Losing my shit over Perseverance's pet rock.
I want what they have
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Perseverance rover reveals Martian lakebeds are surprisingly volcanic
Perseverance rover reveals Martian lakebeds are surprisingly volcanic
Igneous rocks provide a timeline of a crater lake.
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Since it landed on Mars in February 2021, the rover Perseverance has been exploring Jezero Crater, a 50-kilometer-wide impact feature. The purpose of the mission is to find evidence that Mars once had or still has areas that could support life.
Jezero was chosen as the landing site because it was clearly a lake of standing…
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Haven't seen anything about Ingenuity on tumblr yet, so I guess I'll make a post about it
Ingenuity (sometimes called Ginny) was an companion craft to Perseverance, one of the rovers currently on Mars. As opposed to any of the past rovers, however, Ingenuity was a rotorcraft intended to fly above Mars' surface.
After landing on Mars in February of 2021 and completing its first flight on April 19th, 2021, Ingenuity became the first aircraft to fly on another planet. Its original goal was only 5 flights, but it well surpassed that number, logging 72 flights with over two hours of in-air time.
On January 18th, 2024, Ingenuity lost contact with Perseverance midway through a flight, and a few days later, NASA had confirmation that the rotors were damaged, leaving Ingenuity incapable of flight.
So long, Ingenuity. You did so much <3
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An incredible, record-smashing, pioneering mission.
Rest well, Ginny. Thank you for all you taught us.
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An experiment that took place on Mars has shown that it's feasible to extract breathable oxygen from the thin Martian atmosphere.
From its little home in the belly of NASA's Perseverance rover, the briefcase-sized Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) Experiment (MOXIE) has been repeatedly breaking apart molecules in Mars air to generate a small, but steady supply of oxygen.
Now, MOXIE is getting set to retire, after a job well done.
"MOXIE's impressive performance shows that it is feasible to extract oxygen from Mars' atmosphere – oxygen that could help supply breathable air or rocket propellant to future astronauts," says NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy.
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NASA's Perseverance rover spots a giant dust devil on Mars
On a sunny day on Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover spotted a tornado of dust whirling on the horizon. The rover captured a video of the dust devil, which was about 1.2 miles (2 kilometers) tall and 200 feet (60 meters) wide, as it moved across the western rim of Jezero Crater.
The video, which was released by NASA on Friday, was taken on Aug. 30, 2023, the 899th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The rover used one of its navigation cameras to take 21 frames, four seconds apart and then sped up the video by 20 times to show the dust devil's motion. ...
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EVERYONE
ITS CURIOSITY'S SIXTH BIRTHDAY
ON MARS
EVERYONE SAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY
IT LANDED ON MARS ON RISHABHA 13, 31 (AUGUST 6, 2012)
TODAY IS RISHABHA 13, 37
6 LONG YEARS OF VALUABLE SCIENCE
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CURIOSITY
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Mars
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hello there
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Edit: if I may add something, I'm not referring to their ground control when I say Spirit and Oppy are controlled by Macbooks. I mean the actual computer brains inside the rovers - as well as those for most of the 1990s-2000s Mars missions - were the same computers that were used in Macbooks. Enjoy!
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By Jonathan Amos, Science correspondent@BBCAmos
Nasa says its Perseverance rover has essentially completed the job it was asked to do when it landed on Mars in February 2021.
The robot's basic requirement was to survey an ancient crater lake and to collect rocks that would aid the quest to identify evidence for past life.
This primary objective had been accomplished, the mission team told a major conference in San Francisco.
The announcement was made on the 1,000th Martian day of the mission.
"It's a pretty incredible achievement and we've done an amazing amount of science," said Nasa's director of planetary science, Dr Lori Glaze.
This does not mean Perseverance is about to park up and "switch off the engine".
Plenty of challenges lie ahead.
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