NASA Perseverance rover lands on Mars

[LadyStanley]

I want to hear what's happening. And see the helicopter work.

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[No Fun Shogun]

Early helicopter flights will be very limited tests from what I understand, might be a while before they do anything visually monumental with it.

 

[JMCx4]

NASA (July 14, 2020): 6 Things to Know About NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter

... 5. The Ingenuity team will count success one step at a time.
Given the firsts Ingenuity is trying to accomplish, the team has a long list of milestones they'll need to pass before the helicopter can take off and land in the spring of 2021. The team will celebrate each time they meet one. The milestones include:

• Surviving the launch from Cape Canaveral, the cruise to Mars, and landing on the Red Planet
• Safely deploying to the surface from Perseverance's belly
• Autonomously keeping warm through the intensely cold Martian nights
• Autonomously charging itself with its solar panel

And then Ingenuity will make its first flight attempt. If the helicopter succeeds in that first flight, the Ingenuity team will attempt up to four other test flights within a 30-Martian-day (31-Earth-day) window. ...

 

[JMCx4]

Good news via Space.com ... The first helicopter on Mars phones home after Perseverance rover landing

 

[beowulf]

All this has been pretty damn cool. Makes me wish we could actually travel to Mars and also makes me want to re-read the Mars trilogy from Kim Stanley Robinson which I haven't read in years.

 

[NyQuil]

All this has been pretty damn cool. Makes me wish we could actually travel to Mars and also makes me want to re-read the Mars trilogy from Kim Stanley Robinson which I haven't read in years.

I really enjoyed the first two books. The third went a bit off the rails.

 

[lottster14]

What a real image. Impossible to fake.

 

[beowulf]

 

[JMCx4]

 

[JMCx4]

 

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[beowulf]

It's amazing! Crazy is watching a video from SciMan Dan on You Tube, one of his Tin Foil videos about this guy, who of course does not understand science and believe in a flat earth etc, who says it's all fake and a drone could not work on Mars as it has no atmosphere. Yes it has an atmosphere just a lot less than earth and composed of a different mixture.

 

[JMCx4]

It was heartening to see the youthful faces (above the COVID masks) in that NASA conference room & on the WebEx call. This was an historic moment no matter the immediate public interest in it, and that Team - young & old-er - have earned the right to be proud of their collective accomplishments.

 

[beowulf]

Another amazing first!

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/...3QdKYiFJa8re8J9yO328mPiL63vOZuAuaj_3cV_FWb74g


NASA has logged another extraterrestrial first on its latest mission to Mars: converting carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into pure, breathable oxygen, the U.S. space agency said on Wednesday.
The unprecedented extraction of oxygen, literally out of thin air on Mars, was achieved Tuesday by an experimental device aboard Perseverance, a six-wheeled science rover that landed on the Red Planet on Feb. 18 after a seven-month journey from Earth.
In its first activation, the toaster-sized instrument dubbed MOXIE — short for Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment — produced about five grams of oxygen, equivalent to roughly 10 minutes' worth of breathing for an astronaut, NASA said.
Although the initial output was modest, the feat marked the first experimental extraction of a natural resource from the environment of another planet for direct use by humans.



So when can I buy a few acres and move there?

 

[LadyStanley]

Now you can hear NASA's Ingenuity helicopter flying over Mars | Engadget

You can hear drone in flight (if you listen carefully). Sound/audio is new.

 

[JMCx4]

Now you can hear NASA's Ingenuity helicopter flying over Mars | Engadget

You can hear drone in flight (if you listen carefully). Sound/audio is new.

Amazing how satisfying an otherwise annoying sound can be.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Holy ****... I knew Mars was cold, but -130? That poses just a bit of a challenge for habitation...

 

[JMCx4]

From NASA JPL: NASA’s Curiosity Rover Captures Shining Clouds on Mars

 

[beowulf]

Holy ****... I knew Mars was cold, but -130? That poses just a bit of a challenge for habitation...

well...

The lowest natural temperature ever directly recorded at ground level on Earth is −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F; 184.0 K) at the Soviet Vostok Station in Antarctica on 21 July 1983 by ground measurements.

 

[tarheelhockey]

well...

The lowest natural temperature ever directly recorded at ground level on Earth is −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F; 184.0 K) at the Soviet Vostok Station in Antarctica on 21 July 1983 by ground measurements.

I would consider that an uninhabitable zone for practical purposes The crew at Vostok lives their life as if they had gone to Mars and stayed inside the spaceship.

 

[JMCx4]

Latest accomplishment for Ingenuity & its long-distance keepers ...

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Captures Video of Record Flight

May 27, 2022

Imagery has come down from Mars capturing a recent flight in which the rotorcraft flew farther and faster than ever before.

The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s black-and-white navigation camera has provided dramatic video of its record-breaking 25th flight, which took place on April 8. Covering a distance of 2,310 feet (704 meters) at a speed of 12 mph (5.5 meters per second), it was the Red Planet rotorcraft’s longest and fastest flight to date. (Ingenuity is currently preparing for its 29th flight.) ...


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