Keep track of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance is right now, on its journey through space towards its February 18, 2021 landing on Mars. This web app shows you where spacecraft is right now. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/follow-perseverance-rover-real-time-mars-journey-app…
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Pilot Landing At LAX Reports ‘Guy In a Jetpack’ Flying Alongside Them
schwit1 shares a report from The Drive: As if 2020 couldn’t get any weirder, airline pilots landing at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on Sunday, August 30th, reported seeing “a guy in a jetpack” flying about 300 yards off their wing while on final approach to the bustling airport. What makes the reports even stranger is that, like a scene out…
Follow NASA’s Perseverance rover in real time on its way to Mars
The last time we saw NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission was on July 30, 2020, as it disappeared into the black of deep space on a trajectory for Mars. But with NASA’s Eyes on the Solar System, you can follow in real time as humanity’s most sophisticated rover—and the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter traveling with it—treks millions of miles over the…
NASA powers up Ingenuity helicopter on Mars for the 1st time
NASA powered up its Mars helicopter Ingenuity for the first time on Aug. 7 and tested the little craft’s electronics. Source: https://www.livescience.com/nasa-powers-up-ingenuity-mars-helicopter.html
Six things to know about NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter
When NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida later this summer, an innovative experiment will ride along: the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter. Ingenuity may weigh only about 4 pounds (1.8 kilograms), but it has some outsize ambitions. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-08-nasa-ingenuity-mars-helicopter.html…
NASA Astronauts Fire Deorbiting Burn. Watch Splashdown Back to Earth
After travelling all night to return from the International Space Station, two NASA astronauts will splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico at 11:48 PT, reports CNET. “There will be about an hour of excitement prior to that moment as Crew Dragon deorbits and re-enters Earth’s atmosphere…” That 11-minute deorbiting burn should begin in five minutes (at 10:56 PT), and you can…
NASA’s Perseverance rover bound for Mars to seek ancient life
NASA’s latest Mars rover Perseverance launched Thursday on an astrobiology mission to look for signs of ancient microbial life on the Red Planet—and to fly a helicopter-drone on another world for the first time. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-07-nasa-perseverance-rover-bound-mars.html…
Mars-bound: NASA’s life-seeking rover Perseverance set for launch
NASA’s latest Mars rover Perseverance launches Thursday on an astrobiology mission to look for signs of ancient microbial life—and to fly a helicopter-drone on another world for the first time. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-07-mars-bound-nasa-life-seeking-rover-perseverance.html…
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover and Ingenuity helicopter set to launch
NASA’s Perseverance rover, which will look for signs of past or present life on Mars and test Ingenuity, the first interplanetary helicopter, is set to launch on 30 July Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2250181-nasas-perseverance-mars-rover-and-ingenuity-helicopter-set-to-launch/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
NASA has launched its Perseverance Mars rover and Ingenuity helicopter
NASA’s Perseverance rover, which will look for signs of past or present life on Mars and test Ingenuity, the first interplanetary helicopter, is set to launch on 30 July Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2250181-nasa-has-launched-its-perseverance-mars-rover-and-ingenuity-helicopter/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…