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0 1 7 minutes read Welcome to the WHAT THE TRUCK?!? newsletter. In this issue, skyrocketing lumber prices, where’s the Tesla Semi, two brokerage bankruptcies and more. Will it fall under $3? SONAR Downhill skiing in spring — The Truckstop.com seven-day dry van rate per mile continues its three-plus-weeklong slide, falling another 4 cents to $3.04. Although rates are declining, both freight volumes and capacity have remained stable. According to the Outbound Tender Reject Index in SONAR, carriers are still rejecting more than 1 in 4 loads.  “Spot rates were roughly 30% to 70% higher y...

Share this article NASA‘s very own Mars Ingenuity helicopter has revealed further details of the “Red Planet” with its first-ever color photo. The photo identifies a sharper focus on Mars’ rusty, red-orange sandscape that blankets the surface of the planet. The image was taken approximately 17 feet above the ground, displaying the track patterns left by the Perseverance rover, which is a remote-operated research vehicle that helped land the Ingenuity safely on Mars. The bottom of the photo showcases the Ingenuity’s shadow, alongside its spindly legs that are visibly jutting out from...

NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter logs second flight NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter successfully completed its second Mars flight on April 22, 2021 – the 18th sol, or Martian day, of its experimental flight test window. Lasting 51.9 seconds, the flight added several new challenges to the first, “So far, the engineering telemetry we have received and analyzed tell us that the flight met expectations and our prior computer modeling has been accurate,” said Bob Balaram, chief engineer for the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California. “W...

Apr 23, 2021 02:06 AM EDT NASA announced that the Mars Ingenuity helicopter had completed its second groundbreaking flight after making history earlier this week with the first powered flight on another earth. (Photo : NASA) Under its latest Mars rover mission, the space agency said that it had achieved another extraterrestrial first on its new trip to Mars: turning carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into pure, breathable oxygen. Perseverance Mission (Photo : Wikimedia Commons) An experimental robot onboard the Mars Rover Perseverance, a six-wheeled research rover that landed on Mars ...

Mars helicopter shares first aerial color photo and preps for Sunday flight Photo: Mars.Nasa.Gov So this is what the view looks like when flying on Mars. The Ingenuity helicopter captured its first color image from 17 feet (5.2 meters) above the Martian surface during its second flight on April 22. And now, it’s preparing for a third flight, scheduled for Sunday. Ingenuity autonomously flew for almost 52 seconds during its second flight, climbing 16 feet (4.9 meters) up through the Martian atmosphere. After a brief hover, it tilted at a 5-degree angle and moved sideways for 7 feet (2.1 mete...