This high-resolution image shows one of the six wheels aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, which landed on Feb.18, 2021. The image was taken by one of Perseverance’s color Hazard Cameras (Hazcams).
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NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover safely touched down on the Red Planet on Feb. 18. So what will the robotic scientist "see" on her descent and what will she do next? Join mission experts for update about the rover – the biggest, heaviest, cleanest, and most sophisticated six-wheeled robot ever launched into space – including imagery it captured and its mission to explore Mars.
I hope that nothing goes wrong with Perseverance's landing on Wednesday, after all NASA landed Curiosity on Mars with no trouble so they can do it again with Perseverance.
I hope that the helicopter fly's too sferrin, I would like to see how the rotors cope in the Martian atmosphere. Would this be a prelude to a much larger Mars helicopter in the future post Perseverance?
CFD is pretty good these days, so I suspect the helicopter will fly just fine.
A larger helicopter would be interesting. When I worked at Sikorsky, many years ago, a few of us started brainstorming a Mars helicopter. We concluded that the hardest thing would be how to fold the thing up to fit in the aeroshell for landing on Mars. Inflatable rotors were one idea.
I hope that nothing goes wrong with Perseverance's landing on Wednesday, after all NASA landed Curiosity on Mars with no trouble so they can do it again with Perseverance.
I hope that the helicopter fly's too sferrin, I would like to see how the rotors cope in the Martian atmosphere. Would this be a prelude to a much larger Mars helicopter in the future post Perseverance?
CFD is pretty good these days, so I suspect the helicopter will fly just fine.
A larger helicopter would be interesting. When I worked at Sikorsky, many years ago, a few of us started brainstorming a Mars helicopter. We concluded that the hardest thing would be how to fold the thing up to fit in the aeroshell for landing on Mars. Inflatable rotors were one idea.
A larger helicopter would be interesting. When I worked at Sikorsky, many years ago, a few of us started brainstorming a Mars helicopter. We concluded that the hardest thing would be how to fold the thing up to fit in the aeroshell for landing on Mars. Inflatable rotors were one idea.
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"When NASA's Perseverance rover landed on Mars this week, it also brought the Linux operating system to the Red Planet," reports PC Magazine: The tidbit was mentioned in an interview NASA software engineer Tim Canham gave to IEEE Spectrum. The helicopter-like drone on board the Perseverance...
The Ingenuity helicopter, sidekick and traveling companion to NASA's Perseverance rover, has checked in with a good report and is "operating as expected," according to the agency. It will be the first helicopter to fly on another planet.
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This video shows the first 360-degree view of the landing site of NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars, as captured by the rover’s color Navigation Cameras, or Navcams. The Navcams are on the remote sensing mast (or “head”) of the rover. Perseverance possesses the most cameras of any Mars rover to date, with 19 on the rover. Perseverance landed on Mars’ Jezero Crater on February 18, 2021. These images were obtained on February 20, 2021. A key objective for Perseverance’s mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet’s geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith. Please note: Not all browsers support viewing 360 videos. YouTube supports their playback on computers using Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Opera browsers. For best experience on a mobile device, play this video in the YouTube app. For more information about Perseverance, visit https://mars.nasa.gov/perseverance Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
"The huge parachute used by NASA's Perseverance rover to land on Mars contained a secret message," reports the Associated Press — thanks to the rover's puzzle-loving systems engineer Ian Clark. "During a live stream discussing the landing, one Nasa commentator said: 'Sometimes we leave messa...
An anonymous reader writes: NASA's Perseverence rover, which is currently exploring Mars, has as it's CPU a BAE Systems RAD 750 running at a 200 Mhz and featuring 256 Megabytes of RAM with 2 Gigabytes of storage. This is a radiation hardened version of the PowerPC G3, with specs roughly...
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