As NASA moves forward with its latest rover on Mars, a new film is looking back at the agency's past "opportunity" to explore the Red Planet.
" Good Night Oppy ," an upcoming feature-length documentary produced by Amazon Studios, Film 45, Amblin Television and Tripod Media, will tell the story of Opportunity, one of NASA's twin Mars Exploration Rovers, and the connection that grew between the robotic explorer and the people who built and ran it. Ryan White ("The Case Against 8," "Assassins") is directing the film, now in production.
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Perseverance Takes Its First Drive on Mars - ExtremeTech
Perseverance is about the size of a sub-compact car, weighing more than 2,000 pounds on Earth. Even on Mars, that’s a big robot. Like Curiosity, this rover used a rocket-powered sky crane to execute a soft landing on Mars . NASA wanted to make sure Perseverance was in full working order before driving it anywhere. It also needed a software update, which NASA completed in late February.
With the housekeeping done, NASA pumped the gas on March 4th. It took about 33 minutes for Perseverance to complete the maneuvers — accuracy is much more important than speed at a distance of 142 million miles (about 230 million kilometers). First, the rover drove forward 13 feet. Then, it turned in place 150 degrees before backing up another eight feet.
NASA Perseverance Rover Completes First Test Drive On Mars : NPR
An image captured by the navigation cameras of NASA's Perseverance rover shows tracks on the surface of Mars during the rover's first test drive on March 4. NASA/JPL-Caltech hide caption
The Perseverance rover took its first test drive on the surface of Mars this week, traversing some 21 feet of terrain in a short trip that scientists say represents a major milestone.
NASA said the rover ventured out from its landing site on Thursday, exactly two weeks after it first touched down on the red planet. The drive, which lasted about 33 minutes, served as an important test of the rover's mobility system.
NASA's Perseverance Rover Gives High-Definition Panoramic View of Landing Site – NASA's Mars
A 360-degree panorama taken by the rover’s Mastcam-Z instrument will be discussed during a public video chat this Thursday.
NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover got its first high-definition look around its new home in Jezero Crater on Feb. 21, after rotating its mast, or “head,” 360 degrees, allowing the rover’s Mastcam-Z instrument to capture its first panorama after touching down on the Red Planet on Feb 18. It was the rover’s second panorama ever, as the rover’s Navigation Cameras, or Navcams, also located on the mast, captured a 360-degree view on Feb. 20.
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Study Shows Mars' Early Climate Was Intermittently Warm | | SBU News
The authors, led by Robin Wordsworth of Harvard University, point out that reconciling the geology of Mars with models of atmospheric evolution remains a major challenge because Martian geology is characterized by past evidence for episodic surface liquid water and geochemistry indicating a slow and intermittent transition from wetter to drier and more oxidizing surfaced conditions.
"Mars was intermittently warmed when its atmospheric composition was altered by the input of gases derived from volcanism and meteorite impactors. These climate optima allowed water to flow across the surface, forming rivers and lakes, and the rocks and minerals we associate with water on Mars," explains Hurowitz, associate professor in the Department of Geosciences in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Mars arrivals and Etna eruption — February's best science images
Hope’s arrival . This is the first photo of Mars taken by the United Arab Emirates’ Hope spacecraft after it successfully entered Martian orbit on 9 February . The shot was snapped from an altitude of 24,700 kilometres above the red planet’s surface. Hope, now in an elliptical holding orbit while engineers test and commission its instruments, is ready to move into the ‘science orbit’ — from which the craft will begin its mission in earnest in
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Into orbit . China’s spacecraft, Tianwen-1, arrived at Mars on 10 February, the day after Hope. This video, made by compiling images taken every 3 seconds by an on-board camera, shows the craft passing Mars as it enters orbit. In a few weeks’ time, Tianwen-1 will drop a lander and rover to the planet’s surface. Between them, the orbiter and rover will explore the geology and soil characteristics of Mars, including a search for water and ice.
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Dave's World of Wonder: What's NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover up to? -
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Amazon, Amblin documentary 'Good Night Oppy' to tell Mars rover's story https://t.co/XXR03tTxtO https://t.co/bvXYxkjEfR SPACEdotcom (from NYC) Tue Mar 09 01:04:02 +0000 2021
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