Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Nasa’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity will never fly again, the space agency gas said. …
NASA is blaming unusually soft rock for last week’s sampling fiasco on Mars. The Perseverance rover came up empty after attempting to collect its first core sample on the red planet for eventual return to Earth. Data beamed back last Friday showed that the rover drilled to the proper depth of nearly 3 inches, and pictures of the borehole looked …
Being dubbed as one of the most advanced systems to arrive on Mars, the Ingenuity helicopter has now added one more dimension to the aerial exploration of another planet. With Ingenuity, we now have this intermediate-scale imagery that nicely fills the gap in resolution,” said Perseverance Deputy Project Scientist Ken Williford of Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. NASA’s …
