NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has published the official video of Perseverance Rover’s first 360-degree view of Mars, and it’s amazing!
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Perseverance Rover Touchdown Photo on Mars – and its first full-color look
A car-sized rover touching down on another planet! NASA has published an amazing photo of the Perseverance Rover touchdown on Mars. For the first time in history, we have a photo of a rover’s touchdown on another planetary body.
Perseverance Rover: The Tech and Goals
Jim Bell, Arizona State University Editor’s note: On Feb. 18, NASA’s Mars 2020 mission arrived at the red planet and successfully landed the Perseverance Rover on the surface. Jim Bell is a professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University and has worked on a number of Mars missions. He …
The first photo from Perseverance after landing on Mars
NASA’s Perseverance rover successfully landed on Mars on 18 February 2021 at 3:55 p.m. EST (20:55 UTC). A few seconds after the successful touchdown, it sent its first photo from the Martian surface.
Mapping Cities’ Carbon Emissions Through Advanced Data Collection
As global emissions of greenhouse gas continue to rise, it is increasingly important for researchers and policymakers to identify exactly where and how much greenhouse gas is emitted and absorbed worldwide for global climate change mitigation. Over the past decade, Dr. Tomohiro Oda of the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) in Maryland has aimed to …
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New Horizons’ fantastic voyage began with a spectacular launch in 2006 (video)
On January 19, 2006, aboard an Atlas V rocket, NASA’s New Horizons probe started its fantastic voyage of exploration with a spectacular launch from the Florida coast toward Pluto and the mysterious realm of the Kuiper Belt beyond.
What do astronauts eat? The space diet
What do astronauts eat in space? After the holidays, interest in diets usually increases. Losing weight is in many people’s “new year’s resolutions” list. We usually want to lose weight as easily as we gained it. On the Internet, it is easy to stumble upon publications about the space diet or the diet of astronauts, …
Top 10 Most Beautiful Earth Photos Taken From the International Space Station in 2020
Here are the top 10 most beautiful Earth photos taken by the astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS), the orbiting laboratory, in 2020. Which one is your favorite? Or if your favorite image was not listed here, please leave a comment below. To see all images taken from the International Space Station and published by NASA, …
NASA announced the next Lunar Landing astronauts and one of them will be the first woman on the Moon
NASA is returning to the Moon under the Artemis program. Today, the space agency published an exciting video and announced the next lunar landing astronaut candidates. One of them will be the first woman on the Moon.
NASA’s Payload Classifications
Here’s a quick guide to NASA’s payload classification: what is a payload, how NASA classifies them, and what are payload project categorizations.