The space agency posted today about how the team has adapted to the unprecedented situation of having to manage an important, ongoing mission involving hundreds of people, without any of those people meeting in person.
“We’re usually all in one room, sharing screens, images and data,” said team lead Alicia Allbaugh. Now they’re not only in separate rooms, but on different schedules and computing setups. “I probably monitor about 15 chat channels at all times. You’re juggling more than you normally would.”
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NASA gets ready to send a helicopter to Mars
NASA's Perseverance rover and Mars 2020 mission are rapidly taking shape as we speed toward the expected launch window which begins in mid-July. The robot is the most advanced piece of technology NASA has ever sent to the Red Planet, and it's packed with instruments that will teach scientists all kinds of interesting things about our dusty neighbor.
Now, with around 14 weeks until the beginning of the launch window, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has reached a critical step in the final assembly of the rover by installing the Mars Helicopter. Yes, you read that correctly.
Space scientists use COVID-19 lockdown as dry run for Mars mission | Back Page | unionleader.com
TOULOUSE, France — French space scientists are using the COVID-19 lockdown as a dry run for what it will be like to be cooped up inside a space craft on a mission to Mars.
The guinea pigs in the experiment are 60 students who are confined to their dormitory rooms in the southern city of Toulouse — not far removed from the kind of conditions they might experience on a long space mission.
When the French government imposed movement restrictions to curb the spread of the virus, space researcher Stephanie Lizy-Destrez decided to make the most of a bad situation, and signed up the student volunteers.
NASA spots a 'dragon' on Mars - CNET
MRO's camera originally captured the dragon-like picture back in 2007. It highlights the wealth of historical imagery in the HiRise archives. The orbiter has been in residence at Mars for over 14 years and continues to send back valuable views of the planet's surface as it investigates the history of water there.
Many things are taking place:
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Settling on Mars | Manufacturing Organic Compounds
Chemistry professor and project lead Peidong Yang says the group is working on similar systems that could produce “sugar and carbohydrates”—again a souped-up biohybrid based on how plants operate.
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And in the long term, this NASA-sponsored research could indeed make a big difference. “For a deep space mission, you care about the payload weight,” Yang said. “[B]iological systems have the advantage that they self-reproduce: You don’t need to send a lot. That’s why our biohybrid version is highly attractive.”
Wake Up And See Jupiter, Saturn, and Mars In Line With The Moon
With plenty of people working from home, and kids distance learning, getting up early might not really be a thing right now, but it's worth it over the next two mornings. Over the next two mornings, you'll be rewarded by waking up early with seeing Jupiter, Saturn, and Mars all in a 'line' with the moon. If you've got kids consider it their science lesson for the day.
This morning was the first of three days to see this phenomenon before it happens again in roughly 20 years according to Space.com .
Stunning photo of 'massive DRAGON' on Mars taken by Nasa probe revealed
HiRISE's official Twitter account posted the image and wrote: "We rotated this image of light-toned blocky material in southwestern Melas Chasma because from this perspective, it resembles a fabled Chinese dragon."
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HiPOD 11 Apr 2020: Year of the Dragon
We rotated this image of light-toned blocky material in southwestern Melas Chasma because from this perspective, it resembles a fabled Chinese dragon.
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