‘Until we meet again’: The Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter snap a selfie as the copter prepares for its first flight on Mars that is compared to the ‘Wright Brothers’ moment on Earth NASA released an image snapped by Perseverance with Ingenuity on Mars The rover used its onboard camera to snap the selfie of … Read more
NASA has shared the first weather report from Jezero Crater on Mars – and the once ancient lake appears to experience frigid temperatures. The Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer (MEDA) system aboard the Perseverance rover captured the surrounded temperatures for 30 minutes February 19 at around 10:25pm ET. The data shows that it was just below … Read more
NASA conducted its first splash test for the Orion spacecraft in advance of the upcoming Artemis lunar missions. Cameras captured the 11-foot capsule dropping into the ‘hydro impact basin,’ a large tank of water at Langley Research Center’s Landing and Impact Research Facility in Hampton, Virginia. However, the drop was hardly a long fall -the … Read more
Back to the Moon! Most powerful rocket ever built – with boosters taller than Nelson’s Column – is set for the biggest blast-off in history NASA’s Space Launch System will produce up to 8.8million pounds of thrust Boosters taller than Nelson’s Column will be used to launch the Orion spacecraft This will see astronauts – including a … Read more
Two 15-year-olds are rescued more than a mile from shore clinging to a paddleboard after strong winds swept them out to sea The boy and girl, both 15, had been using the paddle board of Playalinda Beach, Florida last week when strong winds swept them out to sea Beach authorities immediately contacted rescue personnel who launched … Read more
Sounds of Perseverance driving on Mars: NASA releases audio clip of the rover’s six wheels ‘banging and pinging’ in the Martian dirt as it encounters a dust devil NASA released the first audio clip of Perseverance driving on Mars The raw audio is 16 minutes long and plays bangs, pings and rattles of its wheels … Read more
NASA is gearing up to send the first woman and next man to the moon which could pave the way for humans to eventually colonize Earth’s natural satellite, but a new study suggests setting up real estate will be a costly feat. Experts at Money, a credit broker for consumer credit products, released the first-ever … Read more
NASA is gearing up to send the first woman and next man to the moon that could pave the way for humans to eventually colonize Earth’s natural satellite, but a new study suggests setting up real estate will be a costly feat. Experts at Money, a credit broker for consumer credit products, released the first-ever … Read more
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and NASA plan to create moon-like gravity inside the New Shepard rocket by spinning it 11 times per minute during flight to test payloads set for the Artemis mission NASA and Blue Origin are working to recreate gravity that is found on the moon The team plans to modify Blue Origin’s … Read more
An app developer has sued Apple for copyright infringement, alleging that the company started making emoji with different skin tones years after she developed her own application that did the exact same thing. As a third-party developer, Katrina Parrott was the first to put out diverse emoji through her own app, iDiversicons, in 2013. The black, … Read more
NASA‘s Perseverance took its first drive across the surface of Mars. It was a short jaunt for the car-sized rover, which went about .01 miles an hour for about 21 feet total, including a 150-degree turn. NASA engineers called the drive a success and a ‘real milestone’ for the mission. The debut drive was one … Read more
President Joe Biden told NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Perseverance team that Indian-Americans ‘are taking over the country.’ Biden made the comment Thursday afternoon during a video chat with the team, that landed the Perseverance rover on Mars last month. ‘It’s amazing. Indian-descent Americans are taking over the country – you, my vice president, my speechwriter,’ Biden … Read more
‘We can land a rover on Mars, we can beat a pandemic’: Joe Biden congratulates NASA’s Perseverance team telling them the historic landing ‘restored a dose of confidence’ in the American people President Joe Biden gave a virtual thank you to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Perseverance team for landing the rover on Mars last month ‘We … Read more