The rotorcraft's first flight lasted 39.1 seconds as Ingenuity lifted itself to a height of 10 feet (three meters) and then returned to the Martian surface.
While it does have the capacity to fly for 90 seconds and cover a distance of up to 980 feet (300 meters), its test runs are intentionally of limited scope as they are meant to prove only that the technology works.
Previous technology demonstrations include the Mars Pathfinder rover, Sojourner, which was the first ever rover to explore another planet in 1997.
5,200 tons of cosmic dust fall to Earth each year | Yourbasin
(NEXSTAR) – Cosmic dust falls to Earth each year, and now scientists have estimated just how much of the tiny particles from comets and asteroids make it to the green planet.
According to a new study published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters , an estimated 5,200 tons of space dust lands on Earth every year. That’s equivalent in weight to about 1,000 adult elephants.
As you can imagine, it’s tricky to quantify extraterrestrial dust. But researchers in Antarctica developed a method that allows them to track the quantity of space dust in snow, which they extrapolated to estimate the yearly output of space dust.
Penn State Scranton hosting virtual Regional Research Symposium this week | Penn State University
DUNMORE, Pa. — Coming on the heels of the campus' recent Undergraduate Research Web Showcase, Penn State Scranton will play host to the 10th Penn State Eastern Regional Undergraduate Research Symposium this week.
Beginning Monday, April 19, and continuing through Thursday, April 22, the Research Symposium will also be presented as a web showcase, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. All poster submissions can be viewed at https://sites.psu.edu/symposiumshowcase21 .
Thinking in Print: Cthulhu is overrated - The Post
Few creatures are as iconic as the Lovecraftian monster Cthulhu. The Great Old One has appeared in numerous films and video games. Despite this great acclaim and having Lovecraft's fictional universe be known as the "Cthulhu Mythos," Cthulhu is far from the most interesting or powerful creature in Lovecraft's fiction.
In "The Call of Cthulhu," Cthulhu is hyped up as an overpowered, extraterrestrial in the sunken ocean city of R'lyeh who waits for the stars to align so that it may awaken and destroy the world as we know it. It possesses the ability to telepathically influence humans by making artists and poets dream of R'lyeh and has garnered a dedicated cult that seeks to free it. Even so much as gazing upon Cthulhu induces insanity.
Neil deGrasse Tyson Thinks Science Can Reign Supreme Again - The New York Times
"In the 1960s, while we're going to the moon, you didn't need special programs to get people interested."
Neil deGrasse Tyson is perhaps the country's best-known popularizer of science. The astrophysicist, who is 62, has achieved that status through his ever-expanding body of work in television, podcasting, journalism, social media and books (his latest is the new "Cosmic Queries") and as director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He has done so at a time when, distressingly, skepticism toward established science has become increasingly widespread.
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