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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Team Says Goodbye … for Now – NASA

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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Team Says Goodbye … for Now – NASA

The final downlink shift by the Ingenuity team was a time to reflect on a highly successful mission — and to prepare the first aircraft on another world for its new role. Engineers working on NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter assembled for one last time in a control room at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in … Read more

Rock Sampled by NASA’s Perseverance Embodies Why Rover Came to Mars – NASA

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Rock Sampled by NASA’s Perseverance Embodies Why Rover Came to Mars – NASA

The 24th sample taken by the six-wheeled scientist offers new clues about Jezero Crater and the lake it may have once held. Analysis by instruments aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover indicate that the latest rock core taken by the rover was awash in water for an extended period of time in the distant past, perhaps … Read more

Team Assessing SHERLOC Instrument on NASA’s Perseverance Rover – NASA

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Team Assessing SHERLOC Instrument on NASA’s Perseverance Rover – NASA

Engineers are working to stabilize a dust cover on one of the science instrument’s cameras. Data and imagery from NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover indicate one of two covers that keep dust from accumulating on the optics of the SHERLOC instrument remains partially open. In this position, the cover interferes with science data collection operations. Mounted … Read more

NASA’s Mars Fleet Will Still Conduct Science While Lying Low – NASA

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NASA’s Mars Fleet Will Still Conduct Science While Lying Low – NASA

Rovers and orbiters will continue collecting limited data during a two-week communications pause due to the position of Earth, the Sun, and the Red Planet. NASA will hold off sending commands to its Mars fleet for two weeks, from Nov. 11 to 25, while Earth and the Red Planet are on opposite sides of the … Read more

What a shot! NASA’s Perseverance Rover records Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s complicated flight — watch video

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Ingenuity collected as many as 10 images of the rocky surface of the red planet. (File image: NASA/JPL-Caltech) NASA Ingenuity Mars Helicopter: NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover has made a video of the 13th flight of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter sent by the agency. But what is unique about that? Well, this video of the flight … Read more

Swati Mohan: The Indian American scientist who spearheads NASA Perseverance Rover’s soft-landing on Mars

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Swati Mohan, the NASA scientist who spearheaded the development if attitude control and landing system of the rover. (Image: Twitter/MKStalin) An Indian-American scientist Dr Swati Mohan has been a significant part of NASA’s ambitious Mars mission involving the Perseverance Rover. As the curiosity rover soft-landed on the surface of the moon on Thursday (local time … Read more