In this artist's concept, NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter stands on the Red Planet's surface as NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover (partially visible on the left) rolls away. Full Image Details
Ingenuity, a technology experiment, is preparing to attempt the first powered, controlled flight on the Red Planet.
When NASA's Perseverance rover lands on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021, it will be carrying a small but mighty passenger: Ingenuity, the Mars Helicopter.
Quite a lot has been going on:
NASA Ends Efforts to Deploy Mars InSight's 'Mole' - Scientific American
“Success was not guaranteed,” says Tilman Spohn of the German Aerospace Center, who is principal investigator of InSight’s HP 3 instrument. But “it’s a little hard to accept that this is the end.”
There is no doubt that by the time InSight’s missions ends, scientists will have a better idea about the state, size and composition of the Martian interior than ever before. HP 3 ‘s failure, however, means the overall picture will be fuzzier than many were expecting. And as NASA’s focus shifts away from interplanetary geophysics to returning pristine rock samples from the surface, questions about the way terrestrial worlds work could remain unanswered for a generation.
Mars once had a climate similar to Iceland, Houston researchers find - HoustonChronicle.com
Gale Crater, an ancient Martian dimple 96 miles in diameter, once had a climate similar to southwest Iceland, where temperatures generally remain below 38 degrees.
Mudstones analyzed by NASA’s Curiosity rover were compared to rocks and sediment found in locations such as Idaho, Hawaii, Antarctica and Iceland.
An impressive milestone: NASA's Curiosity rover has spent 3,000 Martian days exploring the Red Planet
The rocks in Iceland had characteristics that most closely resembled the Martian mudstones, said Michael Thorpe, who was the lead author of a study published online this week in the journal JGR Planets . He’s completed fieldwork in Iceland.
Mars Uranus Conjunction Viewing Opportunity | KARK
With mainly clear skies expected for most of Arkansas this evening, it’ll be a nice opportunity to get a glimpse of the Mars Uranus Conjunction. Mars has dimmed over the last few months as Earth has been moving ahead of it in our smaller, faster orbit around the sun. But Mars still shines on a par with the sky's brightest stars. With clear skies, we should have little trouble viewing Mars as that brilliant ruddy "star" in the moon's vicinity.
Uranus, on the other hand, is quite faint, well over 150 times fainter than Mars. Uranus is said to be the outermost of the sun's planets visible with the eye alone. But seeing it by itself with the naked eye requires a very dark sky, and probably no moon (certainly no nearby moon).
And here's another article:
NASA′s rover Perseverance on the way to Mars | All media content | DW | 22.01.2021
Perseverance is NASA's fifth Mars rover and its biggest and heaviest to date. Its mission at the Red Planet starts in February 2021.
* * *
NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover (shown in artist's illustration) is the most sophisticated rover NASA has ever sent to Mars. Ingenuity, a technology experiment, will be the first aircraft to attempt controlled flight on another planet. Perseverance will arrive at Mars' Jezero Crater with Ingenuity attached to its belly.
Astronomy Update: New Mars rover and rocket launch in February | WAVY.com
There's a lot of exciting stuff happening in the next couple of weeks and months with astronomy — here and far.
Get your calendar ready to mark down some dates. On February 18, the NASA Perseverance rover will be landing on Mars. The nearly 7-month mission from launch to entry, descent, and landing is about to come to an end. If you haven't seen this full animation of E.DL. I'll attach it to the end of this video in its entirety.
During entry into Mars' thin atmosphere, the spacecraft will be traveling at about 12,000 mph. The heat shield will do the initial braking, then comes the parachute. Since the rover is so heavy, the chute will not be able to slow it down enough.
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
The "Happy Face Crater" on Mars Has Been Changing Right Before Our Eyes - Universe Today
These two images were taken by the HiRISE camera (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and shows how Mars' surface is changing over time – in this case, due to thermal erosion.
The first of these images was taken in 2011 and the other in December of 2020, at roughly the same season, and show a few different changes. There are color variations that are due to different amounts of bright frost over darker red ground, according to the HiRISE team.
Happening on Twitter
When @NASAPersevere touches down on the Red Planet in 28 days, so will an experimental helicopter attempting the fi… https://t.co/77XXMzqf4c NASA Thu Jan 21 22:32:05 +0000 2021
When @NASAPersevere lands next month, it will be carrying a very special technology experiment – an attempt at the… https://t.co/hw180jNOG2 NASAMars (from Fourth Planet From the Sun) Thu Jan 21 23:35:51 +0000 2021
When @NASAPersevere lands on Mars, it's bringing along Ingenuity. This experiment will attempt the 1st controlled f… https://t.co/72mA9fGiVs NASAJPL (from Pasadena, Calif.) Thu Jan 21 21:00:31 +0000 2021
Ingenuity is on its way to Mars to attempt the first powered, controlled flight on the Red Planet. Here's what you… https://t.co/0WTnLhE1Rc NASA_Marshall (from Huntsville, Alabama USA) Fri Jan 22 17:23:00 +0000 2021
No comments:
Post a Comment