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Near the California-Nevada border, Death Valley National Park is the hottest place on Earth, with summer temperatures reaching 120 degrees Fahrenheit in the shade.

PYTHON image sensors add vision to Mars Perseverance EDL

On July 30th 2020, the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter were launched into space. They arrived at Mars on February 18th 2021 to search for evidence of past life and find signs of habitable areas. by Dr David Maddison

“I always just followed my curiosity,” Keith Comeaux said. Ironically enough, his curiosity led him to Curiosity. Comeaux, a 1989 LSU graduate, works at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, where he’s been instrumental in the past two Mars rover missions. The Baton Rouge native served as the flight director for Curiosity’s 2012 entry, descent and landing on Mars. As the Mars 2020 mission manager, Comeaux led the team through the launch, cruise, approach, entry, ...

NASA, Perseverance in epicly successful entry, descent, and landing at Jezero Crater, Mars February 18, 2021 After years of hard work and labor, NASA succeeded in the most complex landing ever attempted on another planet. Perseverance safely touchdown at Jezero Crater at an actual time on Earth of 15:43 EST (20:43 UTC) — with confirmation of landing received 11 minutes 22 seconds later through the Madrid, Spain facility of the Deep Space Network at 15:55 EST (20:55 UTC). Arriving at Mars, and...