The Mars rover images a plume of debris from the impact of the descent stage that helped the spacecraft land safely on the red planet. Source: https://earthsky.org/todays-image/photo-mars-perseverance-descent-stage-smoke-plume…
Tag: Mars
The Perseverance Rover CPU Has Similar Specs To a Clamshell Ibook From 2001
An anonymous reader writes: NASA’s Perseverence rover, which is currently exploring Mars, has as it’s CPU a BAE Systems RAD 750 running at a 200 Mhz and featuring 256 Megabytes of RAM with 2 Gigabytes of storage. This is a radiation hardened version of the PowerPC G3, with specs roughly equivalent to the Clamshell Ibook that Reese Witherspoon used in Legally…
Perseverance Landing Site from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
Seen from orbit a day after a Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html…
What geologists see when they look at Perseverance’s landing site
Geologists love fieldwork. They love getting their specialized hammers and chisels into seams in the rock, exposing unweathered surfaces and teasing out the rock’s secrets. Mars would be the ultimate field trip for many of them, but sadly, that’s not possible. Source: https://phys.org/news/2021-02-geologists-perseverance-site.html…
Evidence for white dwarfs consuming Earth-like worlds
For the first time, astronomers have detected the vaporized remains of the crusts of long-dead Earth-like and Mars-like planets in the atmospheres of white dwarf stars. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/vaporized-earth-like-mars-like-crusts-white-dwarf-stars…
Water worlds may be abundant in our galaxy
A new study suggests that our Milky Way galaxy is filled with planets like Earth, containing continents and oceans. If so, life might be common in the Mlilky Way. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/water-common-on-planets-pebble-accretion-milky-way…
Mars Perseverance Sol 3
Mars Perseverance Sol 3 Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html…
Perseverance rover snaps gorgeous HD panorama of Mars landing site
Perseverance has captured a high-definition, 360-degree panorama of its surroundings on the floor of Mars’ Jezero Crater, which harbored a lake and a river delta billions of years ago. Source: https://www.livescience.com/perseverance-rover-1st-mars-hd-panorama.html