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After over two months of silence, NASA has been able to reestablish contact with its wayward Ingenuity robotic helicopter on Mars after radio transmissions were blocked by a hill. This marks what is now the official end of flight 52.Continue ReadingCat… Continue reading NASA contacts Ingenuity Mars helicopter after two-month silence
While NASA’s Perseverance rover brought an array of impressive scientific equipment to the surface of Mars, certainly its most famous payload is the stowaway helicopter Ingenuity. Despite being little more …read more Continue reading NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Completes 50th Flight
The first aircraft to fly on another planet has hit a new milestone. NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has recently clocked up its 50th flight, and achieved a new altitude record in the process.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: Mars, Helicop… Continue reading Ingenuity Mars helicopter celebrates 50 flights with new altitude record
The first aircraft to fly on another planet has hit a new milestone. NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has recently clocked up its 50th flight, and achieved a new altitude record in the process.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: Mars, Helicop… Continue reading Ingenuity Mars helicopter celebrates 50 flights with new altitude record
It may look like a lightsaber sitting on the surface of Mars, but this titanium tube is actually a sample canister dropped off by the Perseverance rover. This could eventually be the first pristine sample of Martian soil and rock returned to Earth in a… Continue reading Perseverance drops first sample tube for potential return to Earth
Dust devils are a common occurrence on Mars, but Perseverance has now captured one from up close for the first time. The NASA rover recorded video from right inside the dust devil, as well as the first audio of the phenomenon on the Red Planet.Continue… Continue reading Perseverance captures audio and video from inside Martian dust devil
Ever since taking off on its historic first flight last year, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has been single-handedly raising the bar for the Red Planet’s aviation scene, and has now soared to its greatest heights yet. The latest outing for the Mars helic… Continue reading NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter sets an altitude record on Mars
Well, this is embarrassing! Imagine sending a multibillion-dollar rover to an ancient lakebed on Mars only to discover after a year of poking around at the rocks that it might …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: December 4, 2022
Humans might not be the first lifeforms in the solar system to face the threat of their own activity changing the climate of their home planet. A new model suggests that ancient Mars was once habitable enough to support methane-producing microbes, and … Continue reading Ancient Martian life may have died out in self-induced climate change
NASA’s Perseverance rover has captured some incredible imagery since landing on the Red Planet early last year, but none as detailed as its latest effort. A newly arrived panorama presents the Martian landscape in the most detail ever captured from the… Continue reading 2.5-billion-pixel image is the most detailed view ever of Mars landscape