NASA’s perseverance Mars rover launched at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on July 30, featuring state-of-the-art technology including high definition video equipment and the first interplanetary helicopter. Many of the tools are designed as experimental steps towards human exploration of the red planet. Crucially, Perseverance is equipped with a device called the …
Read More »Mars 2020 mission lAunch, with the Perseverance rover on board.Image: NASA / Joel Kowsky True to this dying year of 2020, yesterday’s launch of NASA’s Perseverance Mars. The rover was not without problems. As scheduled, a ULA Atlas V rocket carrying the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter gotten up of …
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket carrying NASA nuclear energy. Perseverance Mars rover it roared to life and took off from Cape Canaveral early Thursday morning, the first step in a decade-long program to look for signs of past microbial life and collect samples of rock and soil for …
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On Monday, NASA gave its latest Mars Rover Perseverance all clear to launch later this week on a mission to look for signs of ancient microbial life. “The launch readiness review is complete, and we’re actually going to launch it,” said administrator Jim Bridenstine. “We are in extraordinary times right …
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