[ad_1] The NASA rover on Mars deviated from its landing position two weeks after first reaching the red planet on a first trip that lasted 33 minutes. The rover advanced four meters, made a 150-degree turn to the left, and then fell back 2.5 meters on its test drive. “This …
Read More »NASA’s Perseverance rover navigates Mars for the first time
[ad_1] Perseverance, the car-sized rover that NASA landed on Mars last month, has made its first spin on the rocky surface of Jezero crater, NASA announced today. The rover’s six wheels drifted about 21 feet to carry out a key mobility test Thursday as engineers on Earth prepare to execute …
Read More »Media Telecon Materials – March 5, 2021 – NASA Mars Exploration Program
[ad_1] Members of the mission team are participating in a virtual teleconference to discuss the milestones achieved so far since the February 18 landing and those to come. Since NASA’s Perseverance Mars 2020 rover landed in Jezero Crater on February 18, mission controllers have made substantial progress as they prepare …
Read More »WandaVision finale: Scarlet Witch arrives, will the MCU survive? | Television and radio
[ad_1] Spoiler alert: This blog is for people who watch WandaVision on Disney +. Don’t read on unless you’ve watched episodes one through nine. ‘Save Westview or save your family’ In the end he had to go this way. The marriage to Vision, the babies who arrived in episode three: …
Read More »First ‘space hurricane’ detected over the North Pole
[ad_1] For the first time, astronomers have detected a powerful, 600-mile-wide (1,000 kilometers) hurricane plasma in landupper atmosphere, a phenomenon they call a “space hurricane.” The space hurricane lasted nearly 8 hours on Aug.20, 2014, swirling hundreds of miles above Earth’s magnetic north pole, according to a study published Feb.22 …
Read More »Perseverance rover deploys wind sensor on Mars (video)
[ad_1] From NASA Perseverance rover continues to catch up on the Red Planet. As The Perfect Landing of Perseverance on February 18, the rover team has been methodically testing its seven science instruments and various subsystems. For example, Perseverance has just deployed its wind sensor, as shown in before-and-after photos …
Read More »Perseverance seen from space by ESA’s ExoMars Orbiter
[ad_1] Just over a week ago (February 18th, 2021), from NASA Perseverance rover landed in Jezero crater on the surface of Mars. In what was truly a media circus, people from all over the world tuned in to watch live coverage of the rover landing. When Perseverance landed, it wasn’t …
Read More »Hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls captured in mass kidnapping | Voice of america
[ad_1] LAGOS, NIGERIA – On Friday, gunmen abducted 317 girls from a boarding school in northern Nigeria, police said, the latest in a series of mass kidnappings of students in the West African nation. Police and the army have started joint operations to rescue the girls after the attack on …
Read More »Outriders classes, skill tree and more in the grungy demo
[ad_1] At the first blush, Outriders it’s hard to distinguish from a sea of similar-looking looters and shooter RPGs. Destination is the benchmark comparison these days, mainly because the full-length title is perhaps the best example of the subgenre. Borderlands is another, although it’s hard to mistake that visually elegant …
Read More »NASA leaves hidden message on Mars rover parachute
[ad_1] Hobbyist puzzle fans were delighted this week when NASA revealed that it had hidden a secret color-coded message in the parachute for the Perseverance rover that landed on Mars last week. The message, written by systems engineer Ian Clark in binary code across alternating white and orange stripes on …
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