The autonomous rotorcraft NASA is planning to integrate with the agency’s Mars 2020 rover mission has successfully passed another round of important tests. The Verge reports: Earlier this year, JPL conducted tests of the helicopter in “a simulated Martian environment” that put the helicopter through temperatures as low as minus 130 degrees Fahrenheit and flew it in a vacuum chamber that…
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Bound for Mars in 2020
The spacecraft for NASA’s next Mars mission – Mars 2020 – is really beginning to take shape now. Here’s the complete cruise stage, suspended in a cleanroom at JPL. It’ll power and guide the spacecraft on its 7-month voyage to Mars. Source: https://earthsky.org/todays-image/photo-mars-2020-spacecraft-cleanroom-jpl-may-2019…
Archaeologists Discovered a Hidden Chamber in Roman Emperor Nero’s Underground Palace
Archaeologists have uncovered a hidden vault, which has sat untouched for nearly 2,000 years, in Emperor Nero’s Palace. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65464-hidden-vault-uncovered-in-neros-palace.html