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The China National Space Administration released new images today to commemorate the early success of the mission.

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China postponed a supply mission to its new space station Thursday for unspecified technical reasons, while photos sent back from Mars by its newly arrived rover earned plaudits from NASA despite only sporadic contacts between the Chinese and American space programmes. The Tianzhou-2 cargo spacecraft was expected to have been launched early Thursday morning. China Manned Space announced the delay on its website but didnt say when the rescheduled launch may occur. It would be the first mission...

China’s ‘Zhurong’ Rover Is About to Land on Mars Image: Xinhua Later today, China will attempt to become just the second country to successfully deploy a probe on Mars. Here’s what we know about this historic mission and how China will attempt to overcome its own “seven minutes of terror.” Advertisement After months of waiting, the cat is finally out of the bag. China’s secretive space agency had been tight-lipped about the timing of the landing, but Ye Peijian, a member of the Ch...

Alerts This is the first color image of the Martian surface taken by an aerial vehicle while it was aloft. The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured it with its color camera during its second successful flight test on April 22, 2021. It goes without saying that NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter has delighted the world in recent weeks, and it’s not done yet. NASA has released the first color aerial photos of the surface of Mars taken by Ingenuity in its successful second test flight earlier this...

Now to recreate re-entry with a short drop onto a hard floor Richard Speed Tue 6 Apr 2021 // 10:32 UTC Share Copy We bring our Lego My Own Creation (MOC) odyssey to a close today with a bit of unabashed self-indulgence in the form of a Skylab model and Skylab modification for the enormous Lego Saturn V. Why two? Simply because in spite of the sheer size of the Lego Saturn V, the scale means that a model of Americas space station to fit might seem a little small. Instead,...

Alerts Mosaic view of a Martian rock dubbed “Yeehgo,” captured by the SuperCam instrument on the Perseverance rover. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/CNRS/ASU/MSSS Unprecedented audio recordings taken by NASA’s Perseverance rover are transporting us to the surface of the Red Planet, allowing us to hear the sound of a gentle alien breeze, and the click-clicking of lasers zapping a Martian rock. Advertisement We’re exactly three weeks into the Perseverance mission, so it’s still early...

Portland firms tech helps Perseverance rover roam Mars A Beaverton company is celebrating a project that is out of this world. Test and measurement equipment built by Tektronix played a key role in the buildout of the Mars Perseverance rover. The rover landed on Mars on Thursday, Feb. 18 — Earth time — and is designed to better understand the geology of Mars and seek signs of ancient life, according to NASA, the agency in charge of the mission. The mission is to collect and store a...

Mars Rover Landing Site Named After Sci-Fi Legend Octavia Butler Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona That magical spot in Jezero crater where NASA’s Perseverance rover made its historic landing last month has been named “Octavia E. Butler Landing” in honor of the late sci-fi author. Advertisement “I can think of no better person to mark this historic landing site than Octavia E. Butler, who not only grew up next door to JPL [NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory] in Pasadena, but she...

NASAs Curiosity rover marks five years exploring Mars NASAs Curiosity rover marks five years exploring Mars The National Aeronautics And Space Administrations (NASA) Curiosity Rover Is Marking Five Years Of Exploring Mars. It Was Launched With An Aim To Gather More Information About The Red Planet. News Nation Bureau | Edited By : Vivek Arya | Updated on: 07 Aug 2017, 05:54:45 PM New Delhi: The National Aeronautics and Space Administrations (NASA) Curiosity rove...