The Perseverance Mars rover is traveling through its initial checkout and activation, retrieving some 7,000 photos to date, releasing its seven-foot-long robot arm and taking a short test drive after a post-landing software upgrade, engineers said Friday. Robert Hogg, deputy mission manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, …
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China on Monday launched its most ambitious lunar mission yet: a robotic spacecraft is expected to land on the lunar surface by the end of the week. About 4 pounds of rock and soil samples will be collected by the spacecraft and they are expected to return to Earth next …
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