Ingenuity's 54th flight as captured by the Perseverance rover. Roughly 18 seconds into each video, a pre-flight check or "wiggle" test of Ingenuity's propeller blades is performed which is seen just prior to blade spin-up and takeoff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6LfHhGGquo
To celebrate the recovery of communications with #Voyager2, here is a bunch of classic Science Magazine, Nature, and Nature Astronomy covers featuring the adventures of the epic spacecraft, now located 19.9 billion kilometers away from Earth 🌍 📡 🚀
Ingenuity Mars helicopter captures Perseverance rover from an altitude of 5 meters during a test flight on August 3, 2023, at the time the distance to the rover was 57 meters (188 ft).
Attached is a roughly processed and resized RTE image from mission sol 872.
How does "The first robotic servicing mission on the surface of Mars" sound to y'all?
Well, if you're #NASA#JPL, this awesome headline could be yours for the low cost of a few nitrogen puffs!
This thread is just me fantasizing how Perseverance could potentially use its gDRT to clean the dusty solar panel and camera lens on Ingenuity and make history with this extraordinary servicing operation! 🧵
Cela faisait un moment que je n'avais pas traité les images de #Curiosity. J'ai laissé mes occupations de côté pour assembler les 77 images constituant cette vue sur la colline Kukenán, un mille-feuille minéral de 150 m de haut.
Envie de parcourir cette mosaïque ? Suivez-moi ! 1/6 #marsrover#NASA#JPL#Mars
Perseverance checks out it's wheel tracks after it traversed across some rock strewn terrain. This is a mosaic of three processed overlapping mast camera images acquired on mission Sol 853. Zoom in and you will see the wheel tracks in the sand between the rocks, you can also see a few rocks that have been disturbed by the rover's wheels. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS
A nice drive of ~44 meters for Curiosity on Sol 3880 brings the rover a little closer to a cluster of impact craters. Post drive images, a map and the drive data is attached.
The "large boulder the size of a small boulder' in front of Perseverance rover is being imaged by the SHERLOC camera on Sol 845. The rover's HazCam also captured SHERLOC taking the image of the top of the boulder.
Six Years ago Curiosity Mars Rover checked its wheels. Here's one of the hand-lens images, it just happened to capture the Murray Buttes in the background. The rover is scheduled to have another wheel check soon.
I guess I never did an #introduction, so this seems like a good time to do one.
I'm Jenny. I am a huge geek who loves all things #STEM. I have been in #HVAC for 25+ years and have been luck to work at the intersection on data, marketing, and technology the whole time.
My passion is getting girls into stem and showing kids that engineering is everywhere. I'm a #nasa / #jpl Solar System Ambassador. I love technology, photography, AI, AR, rock climbing, my husband, and our 2 black labs.
I have located the location of Flight 52 which occurred on Sol 776 (April 27, 2023). Communications were lost just before landing for 63 days. These images just came down from that flight after Perseverance drove to a location to receive a signal.
Up! Up! And Finally... Over! Curiosity Rover mission update for Sols 3873-3875. Written by Catherine O'Connell-Cooper, Planetary Geologist at University of New Brunswick
That’s a wrap for the official full dry-run of our first System Test of the #Europa#Clipper mission! This test lasted one week, had the team work around the clock, to simulate the Launch, Cruise, Jupiter Orbit Insertion and Science Tour near Europa!
Thanks to the team for the exceptional teamwork and collaboration, and I am looking forward to more system-level testing together for Clipper! #NASA#JPL#EuropaClipper#spacecraft#DareMightyThingsTogether
A Titanic-sized asteroid is slated to pass by Earth Saturday according to the Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which monitors the orbits of near-Earth objects for NASA....
Featuring a drawing of the Ulysses spacecraft leaving Jupiter, traveling southward in the previously unexplored dusk sector. Also featured: the large Io plasma torus and a small Auroral Oval. Credit: Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Sending a rover to Mars to do geologic fieldwork inevitably leads to frustration. Collecting a rock sample is one of the simplest things a geologist does on Earth. But a second attempt last week shows how hard it is to do on Mars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPL_k-VOkOM
NASA helps spot wine grape disease from skies above California (phys.org)
In a case study, scientists detected the costly infection in cabernet sauvignon grapevines before they showed symptoms visible to the human eye.
Titanic-sized asteroid will pass by Earth this weekend. Here's where you can track it (68k.news)
A Titanic-sized asteroid is slated to pass by Earth Saturday according to the Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which monitors the orbits of near-Earth objects for NASA....