NASA s Perseverance Rover 22 Days From Mars Landing
Perseverance’s Stages of Descent (Illustration): This illustration depicts the some of the major milestones NASA’s Perseverance rover will go through during its seven-minute descent to the Martian surface on Feb. 18, 2021. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Full image and caption ›
Seven minutes of harrowing descent to the Red Planet is in the not-so-distant future for the agency’s Mars 2020 mission.
NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission is just 22 days from landing on the surface of Mars. The spacecraft has about 25.6 million miles (41.2 million kilometers) remaining in its 292.5-million-mile (470.8-million-kilometer) journey and is currently closing that distance at 1.6 miles per second (2.5 kilometers per second). Once at the top of the Red Planet’s atmosphere, an action-packed seven minutes of descent awaits – complete with temperatures equivalent to the surface of the Sun, a supersonic parachute inflation, and t
6 Things to Know About NASA s Mars Helicopter on Its Way to Mars
NASA Mars Helicopter Technology Demonstration: NASA’s Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, is set to arrive at the Red Planet on Feb. 18, 2021. Its mission: to demonstrate the first powered flight on another world. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
Ingenuity, a technology experiment, is preparing to attempt the first powered, controlled flight on the Red Planet.
When NASA’s Perseverance rover lands on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021, it will be carrying a small but mighty passenger: Ingenuity, the Mars Helicopter.
The helicopter, which weighs about 4 pounds (1.8 kilograms) on Earth and has a fuselage about the size of a tissue box, started out six years ago as an implausible prospect. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California knew it was theoretically possible to fly in Mars’ thin atmosphere, but no one was sure whether they could build a vehicle powerful enough to fly, communicate, and survive autonomou
Helicopter added to NASA s Mars 2020 rover
NASA scientists and members of the Mars mission will discuss the US space agency s latest rover, which touches down on the Red Planet in a month s time on Feb. 18. Besides scientific experiments, the rover will also seek signs of ancient life on the Red Planet.
Ahead of the mission landing, a media briefing will be held on Wednesday, Jan. 27, at 4:30 p.m. EST (1:30 p.m. PST) to discuss the upcoming landing of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, said NASA. The event will air live on NASA TV, the agency s website, and YouTube.
NASA s Mars Helicopter, a small, autonomous rotorcraft, will travel with the agency s Mars 2020 rover, currently scheduled to launch in July 2020NASA/JPL-Caltech
/PRNewswire/ NASA is hosting a media briefing on Wednesday, Jan. 27, at 4:30 p.m. EST to discuss the upcoming landing of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover..
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