Engineers announced on Tuesday that NASA has selected a location on Mars for the first demo flight of its Ingenuity mini helicopter. The four-pound rotorcraft is preparing to make the first powered flight on another planet, demonstrating a new capability … Read More
The board is set. The pieces are almost in motion. This week NASA provided the first shot of Ingenuity, a miniature Mars helicopter. Here it’s seen stowed sideways, folded up and locked in place.The helicopter is nearly ready to make … Read More
Stunning new images of spidery frost deposits and deep canyons on Mars, as well as new gas discoveries, have rocked the science world for a month full of news on the Red Planet as a total of three new Mars … Read More
Perseverance’s SuperCam instrument recorded the first acoustic audio of laser impacts on a rock target on Mars on March 2, 2021, the 12th sol (Martian day). According to a lot of sci-fi fans, space lasers sound like “pew pew pew.” … Read More
The rover just barely moved from its landing site, but it’s sending a steady stream of visual data that is freely available to anyone to play with. Mars rover 2020 Perseverance landed in Crater Lake on the Red Planet less … Read More
NASA’s Perseverance rover landed confidently in the Red Planet Jezero Crater on February 18. The heir to Curiosity will look for traces of past life in the sedimentary layers of the water that was 3.5 billion years ago in this … Read More