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NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity has been given a new mission after acing its historic test flights. The drone will soon embark on some one-way flights to demonstrate its ability to act as a scout for the Perseverance rover.Continue ReadingCategory: Sp… Continue reading Ingenuity helicopter lands new job as scout after “resounding success”
It’s the same on Mars as it is here — just when you’re getting used to your job, the bosses go and change things up. At least that’s our read …read more Continue reading Ingenuity Completes Fourth Flight on Mars, Gets a New Mission
High-altitude icy clouds may have allowed ancient Mars to host rivers and lakes by warming the planet via a greenhouse effect, according to the results of a new study. The theory could be tested by NASA’s Perseverance rover, which is currently actively… Continue reading Ancient Mars may have icy clouds to thank for its liquid water
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has notched up another first by extracting oxygen from the Martian atmosphere. On April 20, 2021, the toaster-sized Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) converted carbon dioxide into about 5.4 grams… Continue reading Perseverance makes oxygen on Mars for the first time
NASA has made history today, conducting the very first powered flight on another planet. The Mars Helicopter Ingenuity successfully took to the Red Planet skies for a brief jaunt, which will hopefully be the first of several.Continue ReadingCategory: S… Continue reading NASA’s Mars Helicopter makes historic first flight
More bad news from Mars this week, and this time not just from Perseverance. Last week the eagerly anticipated first flight of the helicopter Ingenuity was delayed for a couple …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: April 18, 2021
This time I promise I only have a couple of stories from Elon Musk’s company. SpaceX’s latest Starship test launch ended in another explosion, proving that space hardware remains hard …read more Continue reading Spacing Out: StarShip Explodes (Again), Passenger Space Flight, Space Bugs, Astronaut Bone, and Martian Water
It’s always fun to look over aerial and satellite maps of places we know, seeing a perspective different from our usual ground level view. We lose that context when it’s …read more Continue reading Putting Perseverance Rover’s View Into Satellite View Context
If you think you’re having a bad day at work, pity the poor sysadmin at Victoria University of Wellington in Australia, who accidentally nuked the desktops of pretty much everyone …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: March 21, 2021
There was a lot of enthusiasm surrounding Mars arrival of Perseverance rover, our latest robotic interplanetary explorer. Eager to capitalize on this excitement, NASA JPL released a lot of information …read more Continue reading A Technical (But Not Too Technical) Explanation of Landing Perseverance Rover On Mars