Some call attempts to land on Mars “7 minutes of terror.” The Perseverance mission will provide the most detailed video and photos of a landing yet. We’ll watch ourselves land on another planet, for the first time ever. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/get-ready-nasa-perseverance-landing-feb2021…
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Launch of NASA Mars rover delayed again, 2 weeks left to fly
NASA has delayed the launch of its newest Mars rover yet again—to the end of July at the earliest—this time for a rocket issue. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-07-nasa-mars-rover-weeks-left.html…
Meeting the NASA Mars rover that might find life on the Red Planet
NASA’s Mars 2020 rover will search for signs of life on Mars, and New Scientist’s Leah Crane visited it in the clean room where it is being assembled Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2228915-meeting-the-nasa-mars-rover-that-might-find-life-on-the-red-planet/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Flying on Saturn’s moon Titan: What we could discover with NASA’s new Dragonfly mission
Flying on other worlds is the next leap in the exploration of our solar system. The Mars Helicopter will piggyback on the NASA Mars 2020 rover mission to demonstrate the technology. But this is only the start. The real prize will be the Dragonfly mission in 2026, sending a drone to Saturn’s largest moon, Titan – as just announced by NASA….