Tiled-navigation camera images after Perseverance rover's drive on sol 784 to site 39/926. The mosaics form a 360 degree look around the rover from its new location after the drive of ~25 meters and climb of 2.3 meters.
Image credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
1 of 2 (see 2 of 2 for the 5th mosaic, the drive data & the location map)
Looking back at where it was a sol ago, #Perseverance captured an image showing the rock it had abraded a few sols earlier at RMC 39.0690. Animated zoom.
RT @TylerG1998 #OTD in 1961: Alan Shepard became the first American to visit space when he launched on Mercury-Redstone 3/Freedom 7 from Cape Canaveral LC-5. 🇺🇸
The suborbital flight lasted 15 minutes 28 seconds, with splashdown taking place approximately 487 km downrange.
RT @TylerG1998 #NASA scientists have concluded, based on Voyager 2 data reanalysis, that 4 of Uranus’ 5 large moons — Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, Oberon, and Miranda — could have miles-deep subsurface oceans.
Voyager 2 is the only probe to have visited the Uranian system.
Just in time for Star Wars Day, a trilogy of asteroids, including one the size of six Darth Vaders, is going to pass by the Earth - two of them very close, too.
But they won't hit. This is the way - as in, its orbit.
"Asteroid the size of 6 Darth Vaders to pass Earth on Star Wars Day - NASA
(...) The asteroid in question has been designated 2023 HF7, having been discovered this year, according to the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
It is also just the first in a trilogy of asteroids set to pass by the Earth on Thursday, but it will also be passing by at a much closer distance than the others.
(...) Asteroid 2023 HF7 is estimated by NASA to be around 12 meters in diameter at minimum."
I stitched one of the regular sky mosaics from Perseverance. Very noticeable is the decreased brightness of the atmosphere towards the zenith because it is very thin. https://flic.kr/p/2oxPaot
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß
Here's an intriguing idea: a liquid, self-healing mirror that could enable space telescopes 100 times as powerful as #JWST.
It's publicly funded breakthrough tech, supported by NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts. https://www.nasa.gov/ames/flute#NASA#Future
RT @GregDieselPhoto
Only remote shot I got (from Northern most area) this camera was in the storm at the 1st set up water in the body and lens dried enough to fire 3x during the launch @SpaceX@ViasatInc Falcon Heavy 4.30.23
Coverage for @earthskyscience #falconheavy#nasa#launch
"When looking at the incredible photos taken from the Apollo missions, you might assume all the rocks are basically the same gray, dusty material that the astronauts galloped across. But a look through this collection of 1,200 samples from NASA’s Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) Division shows that these geologic samples are incredibly diverse and full of surprising features."