NASA has shared the first weather report from Jezero Crater on Mars – and the once ancient lake appears to experience frigid temperatures. The Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer (MEDA) system aboard the Perseverance rover captured the surrounded temperatures for 30 minutes February 19 at around 10:25pm ET. The data shows […]
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It has been 117 years since Orville Wright took flight in Flyer 1 for 12 seconds on a historic December day in 1903 at Kill Devil Hills near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. In the image captured by John Daniels, a member of the US Life-Saving Station at the site, Orville’s […]
NASA has pushed back the launch of the Ingenuity helicopter’s first flight on the Martian surface. Takeoff of the 4-pound (1.8-kilogram) robotic helicopter, currently attached to NASA’s Perseverance rover, is now slated for no earlier than April 11. Deployment of Ingenuity, which has become affectionately known as ‘Ginny’, had been […]
Ingenuity, a small robotic helicopter currently attached to NASA’s Perseverance rover, will attempt the first powered flight on another planet in just over a week. The 4-pound (1.8-kilogram) rotorcraft is attached to the belly of Perseverance, which touched down on Mars on February 18. Ingenuity is now ‘uncocooned’ from its […]
Members of NASA’s Perseverance rover team cheer in Mission Control after the spacecraft landed successfully. AP Insider spoke to Heather Justice, a NASA Mars Perseverance driver, who operates the rover remotely. The team has set up a successful operation but there are still a few challenges that drivers face. Justice […]
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has been seen on Mars for the first time, strapped to the belly of the Perseverance rover, ahead of its first flight next month. The debris shield, covering the small helicopter, was discarded by Perseverance on Sunday, revealing Ingenuity tucked up and stowed sideways under the vehicle. […]
Native people have had ties to land in North America since time immemorial, and now that connection is expanding to the cosmos. The Perseverance rover has been on Mars for a month, collecting data and making discoveries with each passing day. A number of the findings, through a collaboration with […]
The first British astronaut, Helen Sharman, says a child in school today will be among the original explorers to step foot on the surface of Mars in the coming decades. NASA’s Artemis program, which aims to land the first woman on the moon by 2024, has loftier goals, including landing […]