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 …
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 …
