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Nov 18, 2021 · Video footage from NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover provides a big-picture perspective of the 13th flight of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter. The 160.5-second reconnaissance sortie involved flying into challenging terrain and taking images of a specific rocky outcrop from multiple angles.
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Feb 19, 2021 · Despite that seemingly hefty price tag, Perseverance remains the 7th most expensive spacecraft in the history of NASA's planetary exploration program and the third most expensive Mars mission.
Jun 8, 2021 · While NASA is overdue for a visit to Venus, other spacecrafts from Europe and Japan have orbited the planet since Magellan. The United States has primarily focused on Mars-related missions in...
- Documenting The 'Seven Minutes of Terror'
- A Pioneering Mission
- Sights and Sounds
- Perseverance Getting Up to Speed
Perseverance isn't the first robot to document its arrival on Mars. The six-wheeled robot's predecessor, NASA's Curiosity rover, captured imagery of its own "seven minutes of terror" touchdown in August 2012. (It takes NASA spacecraft about seven minutes to reach the surface after hitting the top of the Martian atmosphere, and the trip down is haza...
Perseverance is the centerpiece of NASA's $2.7 billion Mars 2020 mission, which is pushing the boundaries of exploration in multiple ways. The six-wheeled rover will hunt for signs of ancient organisms on the floor of Jezero, which harbored a lake and a river delta billions of years ago. No robot has searched for life on the Martian surface since N...
Then there are the microphones. Perseverance totes two— the EDL mic and another in its rock-zapping SuperCam instrument. Taking microphones to Mars isn't new; NASA's Mars Polar Lander spacecraft sported a mic, and the agency's Phoenix landerhad one built into its descent camera. But neither of those instruments returned any Martian sounds. Mars Pol...
Perseverance is not yet ready to start its science work in earnest; the Mars 2020 team is still in the process of checking out the rover's instruments and subsystems. The news so far is very good on this front. "I am happy to report that Perseverance is healthy," Perseverance surface mission manager Jessica Samuels, also of JPL, which manages the M...
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Dec 28, 2021 · What has NASA’s Perseverance rover accomplished since landing on the surface of Mars in February 2021? Surface Operations Mission Manager Jessica Samuels reflects on a year filled with groundbreaking discoveries at Jezero Crater and explains the next phase of the mission. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Jun 3, 2021 · The agency has picked two new robotic missions to explore the hot hell-world of Venus, Earth’s neighbor and the second planet from the Sun, administrator Bill Nelson announced on Wednesday.
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Feb 22, 2021 · NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance mission captured thrilling footage of its rover landing in Mars' Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021. The real footage in this video was captured by several cameras that are part of the rover's entry, descent, and landing suite.
