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How the Mars helicopter will bring humans back to Earth
Flying a drone on Mars will bring the planet closer to home. First, it s about getting off the ground, then bringing rocks back, and, eventually, people.
Earth s first-ever helicopter on Mars, Ingenuity, is a first step to humans on Mars
As with the first human moon landing in 1969, NASA s Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, is both a small step and a giant leap. Although perhaps that should read short flight, giant journey or some other revision of Neil Armstrong s famous words.
Either way and do or die Ingenuity is a first step towards astronauts traveling to Mars and eventually coming back to Earth.
If you watched NASA’s exciting Mars Perseverance rover landing on Feb. 18, you definitely won’t want to miss the College of the Canyons Canyon Country campus spring 2021 virtual Star Party on Friday, April 23.
Jennifer Trosper, Mars 2020 deputy project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will present “Perseverance on Mars – The First Two Months.” She will provide attendees with a mission update on Perseverance, which is currently seeking signs of ancient life and collecting samples of rock and soil for possible return to Earth.
“The virtual Science Talks series continues to present timely and captivating science content for our community, including the popular biannual Star Parties,” said Dr. Ryan Theule, vice president of the Canyon Country campus. “These events are an opportunity to learn more about notable science topics while also engaging with campus staff and faculty and COC programs.”
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A Black science fiction author who believed she could write better stories than those in B-grade movies, and a former NASA senior director who gazed at the stars while growing up in a remote part of Africa have been honored with Mars Perseverance sites named after them.
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Jakob van Zyl, a brilliant engineer and manager who helped send spacecraft across the solar system, are now part of the Perseverance rover’s mission. Their names now designate where the rover landed and where it will watch the Ingenuity helicopter fly. There s a tradition for Mars rover teams to name their landing sites after someone they want to commemorate, says Kathryn Stack Morgan, deputy project scientist of the Mars 2020 rover mission.
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Using this telescope allowed the team of US and French scientists to reveal the conditions under which these sedimentary beds first formed.
Moving up through the terrain, which is several hundred feet thick, the types of bed change radically, the team explained.
Lying above the lake-deposited clays that form the base of Mount Sharp, wide, tall, cross-bedded structures are a sign of the migration of wind-formed dunes.
These dunes would have formed during a long, dry climate episode, thought to have been common and interspersing shorter, wet periods.
Mars shifted between long dry periods and wetter eras before completely drying up to the nearly dead world we see today about three billion years ago, study shows