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NASA JPL team hopes to give greenhouse gas-monitoring satellite ‘unprecedented’ vision
5 months, 3 weeks ago

NASA JPL team hopes to give greenhouse gas-monitoring satellite ‘unprecedented’ vision

LA Times  

It was almost 10 years ago when Andrew Thorpe received a text from the crew flying overhead in a small aircraft: They had spotted a new methane hot spot. “There’s no denying it anymore — once we see a plume, there’s no other potential source,” said Christian Frankenberg, co-principal investigator for Carbon-I and a professor of environmental science and engineering …

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Nasa's Ingenuity helicopter overcomes new challenge from changing seasons on Mars
3 years, 1 month ago

Nasa's Ingenuity helicopter overcomes new challenge from changing seasons on Mars

India Today  

The Ingenuity helicopter soared with flying colours in the changing Martian air as it completed its 15th flight on the Red Planet. Ingenuity's flight controllers on Earth are planning a series of four to seven flights to assist the rover in its search along with preparing a flight software upgrade for the helicopter, which will potentially enable new navigation capabilities …

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In its most complex flight on Mars, Earth's small aircraft crosses a kilometre mark in air
3 years, 4 months ago

In its most complex flight on Mars, Earth's small aircraft crosses a kilometre mark in air

India Today  

Three months after it first spread its rotors on Mars, the Ingenuity Helicopter has crossed a major milestone of flying for over a kilometre on an alien world. The 10th flight The flight began with Ingenuity taking off from its sixth airfield and climbing to the new record height as it headed south-by-southwest about 165 feet and captured the Raised …

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Ingenuity aces seventh flight as engineers push for operations phase post-mid-air glitch on Mars
3 years, 6 months ago

Ingenuity aces seventh flight as engineers push for operations phase post-mid-air glitch on Mars

India Today  

Weeks after suffering a mid-air glitch on the way to its new landing ground, the Ingenuity Helicopter on Mars successfully completed its seventh flight. During the seventh flight, the rotorcraft landed on a new landing ground, an area that was previously not surveyed by the craft or the Perseverance rover. The rotorcraft logged a 62.8 seconds flight time as it …

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Mars Ingenuity helicopter begins ops phase next week, will fly to new airfield during sixth flight
3 years, 7 months ago

Mars Ingenuity helicopter begins ops phase next week, will fly to new airfield during sixth flight

India Today  

After successfully completing five flights in an inhospitable Martian environment, the Ingenuity helicopter is all set for its sixth liftoff. According to Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which has designed the Mars helicopter, the flight plan begins with the helicopter lifting off to 10 meters, heading southwest for about 150 meters. The Ingenuity helicopter earlier completed its fifth flight on Mars with …

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NASA Will Soon Be Able To Name And Shame The Biggest Air Polluters And All Data Will Be Public
3 years, 8 months ago

NASA Will Soon Be Able To Name And Shame The Biggest Air Polluters And All Data Will Be Public

News 18  

NASA’s realm of coolness extends much beyond space, and in fact, closer to home too. NASA will be working with a nonprofit organization called Carbon Mapper and will have a new Carbon Mapper satellite. All the data that the Carbon Mapper satellite collects will be made public as well, and will have emissions data of countries, industries and companies as …

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NASA's Mars helicopter takes flight, 1st for another planet
3 years, 8 months ago

NASA's Mars helicopter takes flight, 1st for another planet

India Today  

NASA’s experimental helicopter Ingenuity rose into the thin air above the dusty red surface of Mars on Monday, achieving the first powered flight by an aircraft on another planet. I don’t think I can ever stop watching it over and over again.” Flight controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California declared success after receiving the data and images via …

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