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Date Time Helicopter to attempt first trip on Mars surface The first helicopter ever to fly on another planet will soon attempt its first trip above the surface of Mars. Carried under the belly of the Perseverance rover, the helicopter, a drone-like device named “Ingenuity,” will test the feasibility of Mars flight. This is a difficult challenge compared with flight on Earth, because the Martian atmosphere is only 1% as dense as Earth’s at the surface. Ingenuity will be a technology demonstration for the Mars 2020 mission, but one day such rotorcraft could provide reconnaissance for rov...

Ingenuity Mars helicopter: The historic journey to fly on another planet CNN 3 days ago By Ashley Strickland, CNN © JPL-Caltech/NASA The Mars helicopter team is seen outside of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on December 3, 2018. When the Ingenuity helicopter takes flight this month, it will be a Wright brothers moment on Mars. This first powered, controlled flight on another planet has been years in the making -- and it has roots in the first such flight on Earth. © JPL/NASA Hitching a ride on the Mars Pathfinder mission, the Sojourner rover arrived on July 4, 1997....

Donna Shirley made space history in the 1990s as the first woman to manage a NASA program. At the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, the veteran aerospace engineer led both the Mars Exploration Program and the team that built Sojourner, the first rover to land on the Red Planet. That climaxed the Mars Pathfinder mission on July 4, 1997. Here are 11 facts about Shirley’s life and career. 1. Donna Shirley was eager to escape her small-town Oklahoma roots. Shirley was born in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, on July 27, 1941, to a doctor and a former horseback riding instructor, b...

Perseverance Martian landing point named after Octavia E Butler Alison Flood © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Joshua Trujillo/AP “Mars is a rock - cold, empty, almost airless, dead. Yet it’s heaven in a way,” Octavia E Butler wrote in her acclaimed novel Parable of the Sower. Decades later, Nasa has informally named the touchdown site of the Mars rover Perseverance after the late science fiction novelist. Nasa said there was “no better person” to mark the landing site than Butler. “Her guiding principle, ‘When using science, do so accurately,’ is what ...

mnewbanks@mariettatimes.com Kristo Kriechbaum crouches near a replica of the Curiosity rover that landed on Mars in 2012. He has worked for NASA for 15 years. (Photo Provided) MARIETTA — A 1995 Marietta High School graduate is living the dream of many kids who look to the stars for inspiration. Kristo Kriechbaum, who lives in Altadena, Calif., was “always kind of interested in engineering-type stuff.” “I enjoyed playing with Legos and Tinker Toys,” he said. The Mars Pathfinder rover launched in the mid-1990s sparked Kriechbaum’s interest. “It was tiny, no bigger than a toaster ...