It’s been another exciting week for space that included a fourth successful test flight for the Mars Helicopter, a SpaceX splashdown for Crew-1, and the delivery of the biggest rocket stage NASA has ever built. Learn more below! Ingenuity Exceeds Expectations & Gets a New Mission The Little Mars Helicopter That Could (aka Ingenuity) completed …
NASA will soon attempt to fly the first aircraft on another planet! The Ingenuity rotocopter, which weighs only 4lbs, is designed to prove that we can perform powered flight on another planet – one with a very thin atmosphere that is just 1% the density of Earth’s. To do so, its four-foot, carbon-fibre blades will …
This blog is basically a Mars Rover fan account now. But, this is unprecedented footage from ANOTHER PLANET IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM, so I hope you stick along for the ride! Today, NASA released new video footage of Percy the Rover landing on Mars. This includes a flawless 70-foot parachute deployment (that opened in seven-tenths …
Well, we freaking did it! We landed another rover on Mars. In the most difficult landing site we’ve ever attempted, with the most complex rover humanity has ever assembled. And, in the days to come, we’ll get video and audio of the landing filmed from cameras and microphones onboard the vehicle. For now, we know …
In 8 days time, I will be – by name at least – an alien. That’s when the latest rover lands on Mars, and with it, a microchip containing over 10 million names from Earth. NASA’s Perseverance Rover, which took off in July of last year, is scheduled to touch down on February 18th at …