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From Columbia to Mars, NASA engineer achieves dreams of reaching space
Diana Trujillo is NASA's aerospace engineering that shattered the glass ceiling to become the flight director of Mars historic Perseverance mission.
Diana Trujillo only dreamed of reaching space back in her homeland of Columbia. Today she is the flight director on the historic Mars Perseverance mission.
Trujillo is an aerospace engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab and had an instrumental part in the successful landing of the Perseverance rover on the Red Planet, according to NASA.
Perseverance rover snaps gorgeous HD panorama of Mars landing site | Space
The car-sized Perseverance captured a gorgeous 360-degree panorama of its surroundings on the floor of Jezero Crater, which harbored a lake and a river delta billions of years ago.
The photo, which NASA released today (Feb. 24), is composed of 142 individual images taken by Perseverance's Mastcam-Z camera system on Saturday (Feb. 21), three days after the rover touched down .
Mission team members had already stitched together a Jezero panorama using images taken on Friday (Feb. 20) by Perseverance's navigation cameras. But the high-definition Mastcam-Z has sharper eyes, so the newly unveiled photo is more striking and detailed.
Why NASA is Back on Mars | NOVA | PBS
Aaron Yazzie: So happy and so excited that things worked out today. Anything that NASA does I feel is for the knowledge of not only just our nation, but the world. I not only want to share it with everybody far and wide, but I specifically want to look back to my home community, the place where I come from, and share with Indigenous communities, share with the Navajo Nation all the successes that are going on with NASA because I want them to feel part of it.
Narrator: For two years, Perseverance will drill into the Martian surface in hopes of collecting fossilized microbes.
Many things are taking place:
Ice frozen under Mars' surface offers major resource to aid future settlements – WBIW
Her work in SWIM focused on radar subsurface discovery and mapping of ice deposits in Mars' northern hemisphere. Another SWIM project Bramson participated in, completed in December, examined the southern hemisphere.
Bramson said work toward finding the ice deposits – possibly created by snowfall – and determining how accessible it is from the surface has been building in recent years. Findings will offer early ideas about where Mars habitats could be located.
Mars Is a Hellhole - The Atlantic
But there Musk cuts himself off and begins to laugh. He says with incredulity, "This is not true. This is false––Mars."
He couldn't be more wrong. Mars? Mars is a hellhole. The central thing about Mars is that it is not Earth, not even close. In fact, the only things our planet and Mars really have in common is that both are rocky planets with some water ice and both have robots (and Mars doesn't even have that many).
The influence Musk is having on a generation of people could not be more different. Musk has used the medium of dreaming and exploration to wrap up a package of entitlement, greed, and ego. He has no longing for scientific discovery, no desire to understand what makes Earth so different from Mars, how we all fit together and relate. Musk is no explorer; he is a flag planter.
Mars Perseverance: Yogita Shah′s journey from a small Indian town to NASA | Asia| An in-depth
Indian-American scientist Yogita Shah is a member of the NASA team that successfully sent the Perseverance rover to the Red Planet. But her journey as a young girl in India to the world's leading space agency wasn't easy.
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The USA's Perseverance rover has successfully landed on Mars with a helicopter called Ingenuity strapped to its belly. The Mars 2020 mission is seen as a first step towards bringing samples of Martian rock back to Earth.
Watching the Skies: Mars, Pleiades star cluster pair up very closely | WOODTV.com
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The closest conjunction of Mars and the Pleiades star cluster since 1991 will take place early this week.
Two objects are said to be in conjunction when they join up or get very close together in the night sky. Mars and the Pleiades star cluster will be about 2.6 degrees apart from our perspective on March 3.
This is the closest conjunction of the pair in over 30 years. We’ll have to wait until 2038 for the next closest conjunction.
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She came to the U.S. with only $300 and worked housekeeping jobs to pay for school. Now she's a flight director for… https://t.co/5qpmu8dhgN CBSNews (from New York, NY) Sun Feb 28 13:00:00 +0000 2021
New images from Mars! The images were taken by the Mastcam-Z. It is a pair of cameras located high on Perseveranc… https://t.co/p3M4qfooYj IFLScience Mon Mar 01 09:42:24 +0000 2021
Location: Jezero Crater Planet: Mars Photographer: @NASAPersevere Us: Drooling 🤤 More on this high-def Martian pan… https://t.co/WE9Gci0MUQ NASA360 (from Earth, Orion Arm, Milky Way) Mon Mar 01 16:02:00 +0000 2021
It's been a little over a week since Perseverance landed on Mars. Here are some of the sights the rover has capture… https://t.co/knD33rxHSU WIRED (from San Francisco/New York) Mon Mar 01 04:00:12 +0000 2021
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