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2 years ago

Perseverance drops 50% backup samples on Mars for future missions to bring home

The Perseverance rover, which recently completed its one Martian year of operations on the Red Planet, has successfully dropped five of the 10 sampling tubes with rock cores in them. ONE MARTIAN YEAR FOR PERSEVERANCE The SUV-sized rover marked its one Martian year of operations late last week as it continued to trundle on the floor of the Jazero crater, …

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3 years, 10 months ago

Swati Mohan, Indian-American scientist who led charge to land Nasa rover on Mars, was inspired by Star Trek as a kid

India Today

When Nasa landed its Mars rover Perseverance on the Martian surface, it was an Indian-American handling the controls and landing system. Swati Mohan spearheaded the attitude control and landing system of the Perseverance rover that navigated a particularly difficult touchdown. Perseverance safely on the surface of Mars, ready to begin seeking signs of past life,” flight controller Swati Mohan announced …

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3 years, 10 months ago

NASA Perseverance rover attempting most difficult Martian touchdown yet

The Hindu

Spacecraft aiming to land on Mars have skipped past the planet, burned up on entry, smashed into the surface, and made it down amid a fierce dust storm only to spit out a single fuzzy gray picture before dying. While NASA has done everything possible to ensure success, “there's always this fear that it won't work well, it won't go …

Mars Curiosity Landing Nasa Perseverance Martian Rover

4 years, 5 months ago

The Perseverance rover landing on Mars is 7 months away. Here’s what’s next

CNN

CNN — The NASA Perseverance rover has been confirmed to be healthy and is now on a journey to Mars. “The mission has 314 million miles of interplanetary space and seven minutes of terror to get safely onto the surface of Mars,” said Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s planetary science division, in a statement. Here’s what to expect for the …

Mars Spacecraft Earth Landing Miles Surface Nasa

4 years, 5 months ago

Mars Perseverance rover: The technology that might pave the way for humans on Mars

CNN

CNN — After years of designing, building, planning and testing, the NASA Perseverance rover’s launch readiness review has concluded, and it’s a go for launch on July 30. “These two new capabilities will allow us to investigate a postage stamp-size area for elemental chemistry and organic molecules,” said Ken Farley, Perseverance’s project scientist at the California Institute of Technology. Compared …

Mars Earth Help Landing Surface System Nasa

5 years ago

A Martian rover’s ‘Spirit’ed effort

The Hindu

When you want to find out something, but can’t get to where the action is taking place, what’s the next best thing? Blessing in disguise Even though Spirit’s original mission was scheduled to last only 90 Martian days – until about April 4, 2004 – mission planners were able to repeatedly extend the mission. This, apart from the fact that …

Mars Spirit Earth Mer Martian Rover

5 years ago

Four ways the Mars 2020 rover will pave the way for a manned mission

CNN

CNN — When NASA’s Mars 2020 rover lands on the Red Planet in February 2021, it will touch down in Jezero Crater, the site of a lake that existed 3.5 billion years ago. “On the science side, we’re really thinking about new discoveries we can make on the surface and how will inform what we learn when we get the …

Mars Mission Curiosity Cnn 2020 Samples Surface

5 years, 6 months ago

Curiosity rover detects abnormally high levels of methane on Mars

CNN

CNN — NASA’s Curiosity rover encountered something new on the Red Planet last week and the results could potentially have implications for life on Mars. The rover’s tunable laser spectrometer, called SAM, which stands for Sample Analysis at Mars, detected the largest amount of methane ever measured during its mission. But the agency also warned that expectations of life should …

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