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In a special moment, NASA rover on Mars snaps Ingenuity Mars Helicopter in flight
21Aug By adminNo Comments
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In a special moment, NASA rover on Mars snaps Ingenuity Mars Helicopter in flight

[ad_1] In a special moment, NASA rover on Mars has captured remarkable video footage of its helicopter flying and landing. The Martian atmosphere is very thin, just around one percent of Earth's, which makes it hard for things to lift off. However, NASA's experimental helicopter called Ingenuity was built to lift off using its special rotor in these unusual conditions. The small robot, with its four-foot wingspan, has managed to fly more than 50 times, even though NASA initially thought it would only be able to fly five times.Perseverance's Watchful EyeRecently, NASA's big Perseverance rover filmed the whole 54th flight of the helicopter in early August. There was a small issue during the flight that made the helicopter come back down quickly, but NASA used this flight to check if its c...
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NASA’s VIPER Moon rover clears scary test
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NASA’s VIPER Moon rover clears scary test

[ad_1] NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER), the agency's inaugural robotic Moon rover, has accomplished a significant milestone in its preparations for lunar exploration. The mobile robot recently underwent a series of rigorous tests to ensure its safe navigation off the Astrobotic Griffin lunar lander and onto the lunar surface. This operation, known as egress, poses one of the most challenging aspects of the rover's upcoming 100-day mission, according to NASA.Conducted at NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley, the recent tests utilized VIPER rover and Griffin lander prototypes. Their objective was to push VIPER's systems to their limits, ensuring that the rover performs as expected during its scientific mission. Engineers employed the Mo...
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Perseverance and the science of obtaining results
24Jun By adminNo Comments
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Perseverance and the science of obtaining results

[ad_1] The NASA Science Team is making a special effort to acquire a sample of a conglomerate rock unit located on top of the fan in Jezero crater on Mars. Unfortunately, the initial attempt resulted in a sample that was too small, and the second attempt proved unsuccessful, as reported by NASA But why is this rock so important?Eleanor Moreland, a Ph.D student at Rice University says, "Conglomerate rocks are of great interest to the Science Team due to their composition, which consists of numerous clasts of different rocks. Over time, these individual clasts become bound together, forming the conglomerate. Significantly, these clasts likely originated from distant locations and were transported to Jezero crater. Analyzing the unique clasts and cements preserved within a sample of the co...
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NASA Perseverance rover camera captures stunning clouds on Mars
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NASA Perseverance rover camera captures stunning clouds on Mars

[ad_1] NASA's Perseverance rover has been on a Mars exploratory mission for the last two years. Since its landing in February 2021, the Martian rover has not only captured breathtaking snapshots of the barren planet, but has also discovered the stunning structures and formations on the red planet. The Perseverance Rover has been collecting rock samples, analyzing the terrain, and hunting for evidence of previous microbial life on Mars. Now, the rover has made another stunning discovery by capturing drifting clouds in the Martian sky.The image was released by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory yesterday and it was captured by one of the navigation cameras aboard the Perseverance rover. The stunning clouds were captured just before sunrise on March 18, 2023, the 738th Martian day of the Mar...
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In a first, NASA Curiosity rover captures Sun rays on Mars
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In a first, NASA Curiosity rover captures Sun rays on Mars

[ad_1] In its long and remarkable tenure on Mars, the NASA Curiosity rover has reached some significant milestones and discovered some really interesting things. The rover was first deployed on the red planet in 2012 and it continues to collect samples and look for signs of life on the planet. Recently, it discovered a bizarre rock formation that looked just like a duck. And now, it has captured a stunning image of a phenomenon which is extremely rare to see on Mars — visible Sun rays.It should be noted that while sunlight does make its way to Mars' surface just like it does on the Earth, visible Sun rays is not something which is commonly seen. A visible Sun ray is seen on our planet on a hazy day when sunlight is scattered by dust, smoke or other particles. These visible rays are not...
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NASA Ingenuity Helicopter paves the way for others to explore Mars
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NASA Ingenuity Helicopter paves the way for others to explore Mars

[ad_1] The outstanding performance by the NASA Ingenuity has given the confidence to scientists to build more space helicopters that will explore Mars and other areas of the solar system. The NASA Perseverance Rover has been leading a path-breaking exploration of the surface of Mars. However, the Mars rover also has a partner in crime that has been flying around mapping the vast area of the red planet. It is called the Ingenuity helicopter and it has been making waves in the astronomy community for its efficiency and performance. Even NASA scientists have said that the space helicopter has surpassed their expectations by a significant margin. While it was an experiment to begin with, the successful run of course by NASA Ingenuity can now lead to a fleet of similar space aircrafts that...
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OTT release: ‘Good Night Oppy’ about NASA’s rover mission may make you cry
22Nov By adminNo Comments
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OTT release: ‘Good Night Oppy’ about NASA’s rover mission may make you cry

[ad_1] "Good Night Oppy", currently in select US cinemas, begins streaming on Amazon on Nov. 23. When "Good Night Oppy", which follows NASA rovers Opportunity and Spirit before and after they land on Mars, launched at a film festival in September, the documentary had an unexpected effect on audiences: they cried."It's funny because I promise you we were not having conversations in the edit room on how we would make people cry," director Ryan White told Reuters. "It is kind of the shocking resounding response to this film seems to be people coming up to me sheepishly with their hand over their mouths saying 'I cried about a robot'."   The film, which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado in September, looks at the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission, which NASA launched...
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Bizarre! A duck! On Mars? Look what NASA Curiosity Rover just shot
10Nov By adminNo Comments
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Bizarre! A duck! On Mars? Look what NASA Curiosity Rover just shot

[ad_1] NASA’s Curiosity Rover has captured a bizarre image of a duck on Mars. Here's more about it. Is that you Daffy Duck? That was our first thought when we had a glance at the latest image captured by NASA's Curiosity Rover! The rover has been on a Mars exploratory mission since its launch in 2011 and it has not only captured breathtaking snapshots of the barren planet, but has also discovered the potential signs that life may have existed on the planet. As is clear, the ‘Duck' that was captured is not a real creature, but it is certainly among the most bizarre things captured on the surface of the red planet. It looks like someone actually made it. Aliens?Earlier this year, the Martian rover spotted a spiked rock formation which formed as a result of the erosion of soil due to hig...
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Wow! NASA Curiosity Rover reaches finally mineral-rich salt region on Mars
20Oct By adminNo Comments
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Wow! NASA Curiosity Rover reaches finally mineral-rich salt region on Mars

[ad_1] NASA’s Curiosity Rover has finally made its long-awaited trip to the Salty Region on Mars. But what did scientists find out? NASA's Curiosity Rover has been on its Mars exploratory mission for the last decade. Since its launch in 2011, the Martian rover has not only captured breathtaking snapshots of the barren planet, but has also discovered the potential signs that life may have existed on the planet. NASA scientists have been attempting to send the rover to the salty region of Mount Sharp for some time and now, the Curiosity Rover has finally made that long-awaited journey.The rover recently reached the salty region of Mount Sharp which NASA suspects to be mineral-rich, calling it a “sulfate-bearing unit”. According to a NASA blog, scientists have believed this region was ho...
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Tech in space: Mars rover sees hints of past life in latest rock samples
16Sep By adminNo Comments
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Tech in space: Mars rover sees hints of past life in latest rock samples

[ad_1] NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has detected its highest concentrations yet of organic molecules, in a potential signal of ancient microbes that scientists are eager to confirm when the rock samples are eventually brought to Earth. While organic matter has been found on the Red Planet before, the new discovery is seen as especially promising because it came from an area where sediment and salts were deposited into a lake -- conditions where life could have arisen. "It is very fair to say that these are going to be, these already are, the most valuable rock samples that have ever been collected," David Shuster, a Perseverance return sample scientist, told reporters during a briefing. Organic molecules -- compounds made primarily of carbon that usually in...
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