Fresh off its first terrestrial test drive, NASA’s Mars 2020 rover was displayed to media last week at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California before it’s packed up and flown across the country to Cape Canaveral in February to begin final launch preparations for liftoff in July.
The six-wheeled robot is similar in appearance to NASA’s Curiosity rover, which has explored Mars since August 2012, but the Mars 2020 rover carries an upgraded suite of scientific instruments, plus mechanisms to collect, seal and store samples of powder drilled and cored from Martian rocks.
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Elon Musk Hints That a Cybertruck Is Headed to Mars
SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been hinting that his companies might once again team up to send a car into space — and depending on how you interpret one of his latest tweets, it's starting to look even more likely that a Cybertruck could be headed to the Red Planet .
In November 2019, Musk declared via Twitter that a pressurized version of Tesla's Cybertruck would be the "official truck of Mars." The following month, he noted in another tweet that Starship would have the payload capacity for a Cybertruck.
Mars Theatre uses grant to invest in future
SPRINGFIELD, Ga. (WTOC) - When you step inside the Mars Theatre in Springfield, it's like stepping back in time.
A beautiful venue that combines its historic past, with a few necessary modern upgrades to bring you to a place that feels like home, no matter how long you've been away.
"You know it's just kind of like a reunion. People see people they haven't seen in a while, they run into friends and family and it is, it's very much a community hub," said Mars Theatre Director Allison Newberry.
Blackface again mars Philadelphia's troubled New Year parade - ABC News
PHILADELPHIA -- The mayor of Philadelphia sharply criticized two men who wore blackface while marching in the city's annual — and often racially troubling — New Year's Day Mummers Parade, calling their actions "abhorrent and unacceptable."
The group the men apparently were affiliated with, the Froggy Carr Wench Brigade, was also disqualified from Wednesday's parade and may face additional penalties. It wasn't clear Thursday whether the men were members of the group or just marching with it.
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WATCH: Star Trek: Short Treks "Children of Mars" Trailer | TREKNEWS.NET | Your daily
Star Trek: Short Treks is set to return on January 9th with “Children of Mars” the sixth and final episode of the series’ second season.
The episode will tie in and act as a prequel to the first season of Star Trek: Picard , which will debut later this month on CBS All Access.
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New engine tech that could get us to Mars faster - BBC News
If we're ever to make regular journeys from Earth to Mars and other far-off destinations, we might need new kinds of engines. Engineers are exploring revolutionary new technologies that could help us traverse the Solar System in much less time.
Because of the orbital paths Mars and Earth take around the Sun, the distance between them varies between 54.6 million km and 401 million km.
Missions to Mars are launched when the two planets make a close approach. During one of these approaches, it takes nine months to get to Mars using chemical rockets - the form of propulsion in widespread use.
What's ahead for science in 2020? Here's what we're watching | Science News
With a new year comes new science. Here's a look at the events, projects and findings our reporters are watching — or wishing — for in 2020.
When astronomy writer Lisa Grossman and physics writer Emily Conover predicted in 2018 that the Event Horizon Telescope, or EHT, would soon capture an image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the Milky Way's center, they were half right. EHT's first image came through in 2019 , but it was of the black hole at the center of galaxy M87. Grossman and Conover have their fingers crossed that Sagittarius A* gets its big moment in 2020.
WATCH: Inside look at the VBC's new Mars Music Hall
After more than a year of construction, the doors of the Mars Music Hall at the VBC will open for the first time Friday night. North Alabama native Jason Isbell will play for a sold out crowd.
"We're already getting a lot of great feedback from the artist community, the promoters, telling each other that they need to come to Huntsville," says the public relations manager for the VBC, Samantha Nielsen.
The Mars Music Hall at the VBC is meant for more intimate concerts. "We're going to be a getting a lot of shows that otherwise might be going to Nashville, Birmingham. It's a venue that's going to draw in artists that might not necessarily fill up a concert hall, or who don't want that style of seating, but they're big enough that they can fill up a 1,575 capacity venue like this."
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Happy #NewYearsDay! 2020 will be an exciting year for #NASAScience – we'll launch our next rover to Mars, collect a… https://t.co/6J8BKTHx42 Dr_ThomasZ (from Washington, DC) Wed Jan 01 15:50:02 +0000 2020
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