First Aerial Color Image of Mars
Full image and caption › Yesterday I got to write the entry for the second successful experimental flight test from "Wright Brothers Field" in the project's official logbook, which is called "The Nominal Pilot's Logbook for Planets and Moons.
As many of you know, we carry a piece of the original Wright Flyer aboard our helicopter. Even though we are conducting our flight tests in a tenuous atmosphere over 180 million miles (290 million kilometers) from Earth, we model our methodical approach to experimental flight on the Wright brothers' approach. Our plan from Day One has been to prepare like crazy, fly, analyze the data (like crazy), and then plan for an even bolder test in the next flight.
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Flies Faster, Farther on Third Flight – NASA's Mars Exploration
The craft’s April 25 flight was conducted at speeds and distances beyond what had ever been previously demonstrated, even in testing on Earth.
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter continues to set records, flying faster and farther on Sunday, April 25, 2021 than in any tests it went through on Earth. The helicopter took off at 4:31 a.m. EDT (1:31 a.m. PDT), or 12:33 p.m. local Mars time, rising 16 feet (5 meters) – the same altitude as its second flight . Then it zipped downrange 164 feet (50 meters), just over half the length of a football field, reaching a top speed of 6.6 feet per second (2 meters per second).
How NASA and SpaceX Will Get People From Earth to Mars and Safely Back Again
This artist’s concept depicts astronauts and human habitats on Mars. NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover carries a number of technologies that could make Mars safer and easier to explore for humans. Credit: NASA
The biggest challenge (or constraint) is the mass of the payload (spacecraft, people, fuel, supplies, etc.) needed to make the journey.
But it could launch only 140 tonnes (5% of its initial launch mass) to low Earth orbit, and 50 tonnes (less than 2% of its initial launch mass) to the Moon.
The Edge of Mars - DCD
Edge computing is designed to help when applications need a fast response, but are a long way from central IT resources. The most extreme example of this right now is a self-driving vehicle doing detailed science work, 62 million km away from Earth on the surface of Mars.
NASA's Perseverance rover has to handle its environment in real time, but signals take 12 minutes to go from there to NASA's Mission Control. Besides the delay, Internet communications over that distance are unreliable, so Perseverance has to be prepared to make a lot of decisions locally.
Elon Musk Says 'People Will Probably Die' When Humans Fly to Mars | PEOPLE.com
Elon Musk has said he thinks SpaceX can send humans to Mars by 2026, while NASA has said it hopes for a mission as early as the 2030s
Elon Musk 's SpaceX may not have plans to send humans to Mars anytime soon — but when it does, those on board may want to take caution.
The tech mogul and SpaceX CEO warned in a recent interview that "a bunch of people will probably die" in the beginning stages of Mars exploration as his company works out the kinks of traveling to the Red Planet.
Astro Bob: Mars crawls up Castor's leg | Grand Forks Herald
Once, while camping in the Quetico in Canada, a mouse crawled under my jeans and up my leg. My brother and I were relaxing around the fire at the time. I instantly stood up and shook and slapped my legs, forcing the mouse to make a hasty exit. This week, Mars takes me back to that moment as it slowly crawls up Castor's left leg under his toga. Castor is one of the Gemini twins. He and his brother Pollux embrace in the western sky at the end of evening twilight.
As the Red Planet surreptitiously pads its way up Gemini it passes very close to M35, one of the finest star clusters in the sky. On Monday, April 26, and Tuesday, April 27, the planet and cluster will be in conjunction and separated by just a half-degree or one full-moon-diameter.
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter aces first longer-range flight on Mars – Spaceflight Now
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter flew farther and faster Sunday than the rotorcraft’s first two test flights in the Martian atmosphere, traveling the length of a football field while exceeding distances and speeds achieved during testing on Earth, officials said.
On Sunday’s test flight, the diminutive rotor-driven drone flew a distance of some 164 feet (50 meters) from its takeoff location, then returned to the same flat patch of Martian terrain for a controlled landing, logging around 330 feet of distance traveled in about 80 seconds.
Mars Ingenuity drone flies length of football field – video | Science | The Guardian
Nasa's Ingenuity helicopter stretched its rotors on Sunday 25 April, taking its third flight on Mars.
The flight was Nasa's most ambitious to date, with Ingenuity rising to a height of five metres and then accelerating horizontally for 50 metres before returning to its take-off point.
Happening on Twitter
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Faster, farther, bolder. #MarsHelicopter is set for flight No. 3 on April 25. https://t.co/1wUTLiBm7d Flight pla… https://t.co/oPkEsJ6A45 NASAJPL (from Pasadena, Calif.) Fri Apr 23 20:23:34 +0000 2021
With two flights down, the #MarsHelicopter is ready to get sporty. Flight #3 planned for this Sunday, and it'll eve… https://t.co/Rihj1jMWgK NASAPersevere (from Jezero Crater, Mars) Fri Apr 23 20:53:15 +0000 2021
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