So this question arises: if the plan for #Flight53 was to scout and cover 203m of ground, why did it do a straight line flight of only 142m? Even if this is a preliminary localization, still the flight seems rather abnormal.
During the coming solar conjunction of Mars, and the moratorium in communications, #Ingenuity will use its color camera to study the movement of sand, which poses an ever-present challenge to Mars missions.
Only three humans have ever witnessed an eclipse of the Sun by the Earth. It happened while the Apollo 12 crew was returning home from the Moon, on November 21, 1969.
Fortunately, the astronauts filmed the moment so you can share in the experience.
Cet été, j'ai eu la chance de visiter le JPL, ce centre de la NASA où sont conçues, assemblées et testées la plupart des sondes et rovers américains qui explorent le Système solaire. Un récit de ma visite pour vous emmener dans cet endroit mythique. 1/37 @nasajpl@NASA#NASA#JPL
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! 🧵
Next week, #NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies turns 60, and we are celebrating our anniversary with some retrospective talks on our history… and forward thinking talks about our future.
I have been appointed to present “History and Future of #Climate Modeling”, so I’ve been interviewing many GISS alumni.
The back-stories to the published development are fascinating.
I’ve asked my boss to get a film maker to document these oral histories better. It would make a great documentary imho.
That sounds interesting but is quite risky, as the terrain is difficult and the rover would have to drive up into the Neretva riverbed, and across the regolith megaripple field to get a good visual of the heli, and that's assuming the #MarsHelicopter is still on the top of one of those megaripples.
The maps show visibility and terrain. Contours are 1m.
From time to time #Perseverance uses its fixed down looking camera, or EDL_RDCAM, to record movies of, well, the ground 🥴 , probably while the ground radar RIFMAX does its thing. And let's not forget that it's the same camera that captured those epic images during the rover's descent to the Martian ground.
Debayered, processed EDL_RDCAM
Image captured from RMC 51.0030
Sol 1094, LMST: 12:55:27
These unofficial Mastodon accounts of space agencies are bots that merely share news items the agencies publish elsewhere, yet the accounts have quite a lot of followers:
Two days ago the Perseverance rover captured these pictures of the Mastcam-Z calibration target with her arm-mounted WATSON camera.
I love these images that show the rover hardware, perhaps it's time for another full selfie? 📸
Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS / Simeon Schmauß
On Sol 998, #Perseverance moved farther southwest about 30m, to RMC 47.3056, apparently back toward Jurabi Point.
The map shows its new estimated location along with the (guessed) path it took and a new prediction for its next drive (green dashed line), just for fans.
This localization is based on metadata from just one image.
EDIT: The path for last drive changed to 'estimate' and is being updated as more metadata become available.
Moon mining gains momentum as private companies plan for a lunar economy (www.space.com)
"This is now becoming so real."