The Ingenuity helicopter is too damaged to ever fly again. Yet before its final flight, NASA’s historic Mars craft captured a sprawling view of the Martian desert. In the aftermath of a “rough” landing during its 72nd flight, the small experimental chopper was left with...
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January 27, 2024 albert
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Planetary scientists analyzed a giant earthquake on Mars (a marsquake) and determined it didn’t come from a large meteorite impact. The quake came from inside the planet. Mashable
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NASA’s adventurous Perseverance rover is currently perched over a big Martian impact crater. And it has a glorious vista. While searching for clues of past habitability and potential hints of extinct life in Mars’ desert, the rover snapped 152 images overlooking the Belva crater, which...
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May 20, 2023 albert
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Mars‘ landscape may be barren and dangerous to human life, but thanks to photos like this from NASA’s advanced rovers, that doesn’t stop it from looking any less stunning. Although humans have yet to set foot on Mars, robotics and other technologies have allowed astronomers to...
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October 10, 2021 albert
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Mars doesn’t have too many cloudy days, so this new set of images from a NASA-operated rover is a full-on treat. The Curiosity rover has been gathering data on the Red Planet since it touched down in Aug. 2016. And now, while many space watchers’...
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It started with 28,000. NASA just narrowed it down to one. The next Mars rover, which has been going by Mars 2020, has a name: Perseverance. (We’re officially giving it the nickname “Percy.”) The space agency announced the winning name Thursday during a livestreamed event...
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The Richard Branson-backed small satellite launch operation Virgin Orbit wants to be the first to dedicate a mission to bringing commercial CubeSats to the “Red Planet,” the company announced today. Working with Polish satellite company SatRevolution, Virgin Orbit has established a consortium along with a...
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October 9, 2019 albert
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Obama wants Americans to go to Mars by the 2030s, Google acquires FameBit, a new report from The Wall Street Journal hints at Amazon opening grocery stores, Navya gets closer to building an autonomous shuttle and Greylock closes its 15th fund. All this on Crunch...
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