On Sol 1037 (three days ago) the Perseverance rover observerved this transit of Mars' smallest moon Deimos.
This timelapse shows the event at 10x speed.
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! 🧵
Earlier today, the Perseverance rover captured a high resolution image of the Ingenuity using the SuperCam RMI instrument.
One rotor blade is broken off completely, the others have damaged tips.
The Jupiter moon Io - captured by the Juno spacecraft during Perijove 58.
The angle of the sun during this flyby created stunning specular reflections on the basalt covered lava lake of Loki Patera.
Out of many boring news stories eulogizing or lamenting #Ingenuity, here is a fascinating piece by Eric Berger about how the #MarsHelicopter came to be.
It's always the visionary people who in spite of difficulties persevere and make those great leaps forward. And those visionaries include many non technical roles like managers, administrators, and indeed, politicians.
#NASA 's #Juno
Perijove (orbit) 45
Altitude: 412 km
North on the left
Time: 2022-09-29T09:36
Camera: Stellar Reference Unit
File name: SRU_1_2022272T093649_45_V01
For a better view & more info, zoom in on Flickr as the image is quite large 8500x4790: https://flic.kr/p/2pspkee
Mission: Tianwen-1
Time: 2022-09-26
Camera: MoRIC
Altitude: 295 km
Long 164.030441
Lat -82.632718
Image created using 5 photos processed from https://moon.bao.ac.cn
Colourised animation processing data from: https://psa.esa.int
ESA Mars Express HRSC
Orbit: 14388
2015-05-05 T16:01:18 > T16:01:35.424Z
IDs: 5 Frames
HE388_0003_SR3 >>>> HE388_0007_SR3
1 frame added to make it smoother
Credits:
Raw Data:
ESA/DLR/G.Neukum-FUBerlin
Processing: AndreaLuck CC BY
What is proper to say for #Ingenuity, an anthropomorphism but nonetheless an expression of love, is that it stayed in the battlefield erect and functioning until the very end.
The #MarsHelicopter is still alive, and we'll probably be hearing about it for as long as it has power to transmit its beacon and #NASA continues to devote a few minutes of #Perseverance's time every sol to listening for it, which may be well into Martian autumn.
NASA's #NewHorizons
2015-07-14 at 33958 km
Instrument: MVIC
OPUS ID: Color Composite of
mc2_0299178092 Filter IR
mc0_0299178092 Filter Red
mc1_0299178092 Filter Blue
Although still far from its 2029 encounter with the asteroid, the spacecraft opened its eyes (twin cameras) and captured a total of 68 images, all within a star field in the constellation Pisces.
The spacecraft has already set a record by using a laser beam to communicate with Earth in an experiment called Deep Space Optical Communications (#DSOC).