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DuPont Celebrates 60th Anniversary of DuPont™ Tedlar® Brand of Polyvinyl Fluoride (PVF) Film Share Article DuPont™ Tedlar® PVF film, celebrating 60 years of superior protection “We are proud of the role Tedlar® has played during the past 60 years in protecting assets for the long-term,” said Eric Wang, global business director for DuPont Tedlar®. WILMINGTON, Del. (PRWEB) April 29, 2021 DuPont (NYSE:DD) today announced the 60th anniversary of DuPont™ Tedlar®, a unique brand of polyvinyl fluoride (PVF) film that has...

Mars Exploration Fast Facts Here’s some background information about Mars exploration. The United States and the Soviet Union are the only two countries to land a spacecraft on Mars. Facts There have been nine successful US Mars landings: Viking 1 and Viking 2 (both 1976), Pathfinder (1997), Spirit and Opportunity (both 2004), Phoenix (2008), Curiosity (2012), InSight (2018) and Perseverance (2021). The only other country to land a spacecraft on Mars was the Soviet Union in 1971 and 1973. The United States, the Soviet Union, the European Space Agency and India have successfully sent spacecr...

A recent study tracing the origins of Deimos and Phobos, the two moons of Mars, brought to mind a memorable Mars-observing session more than three decades

Meet the Spartan who helped NASA go to Mars (again) As a high school student, Terry Himes dreamed of exploring space. Today, the Spartan who graduated in 1975 from Michigan State University’s College of Engineering is living his dream.     “Just today, I was building the relay commands for Mars 2020, but also Curiosity and InSight,” says Himes, a spacecraft and software engineer for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.   NASA’s Perseverance rover arrived on Mars, landing safely on Feb. 18, joining the missions Himes references. The InSight lander touched down on Mars in 2018, and Cu...

  The University of Arizona-operated High Resolution Imaging Experiment camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the Feb. 18 descent of NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, the latest rover to touch down on the Red Planet. In the image above, Perseverance's landing capsule can be seen falling through the Martian atmosphere, with its parachute trailing behind. Since entering the orbit of Mars in March of 2006, the HiRISE camera, provided and operated by the UArizona Lunar Planetary Laboratory, has photographed the surface of the Red Planet in unprecedented detail. The camera als...