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NASA recently announced that its Mars rover, Perseverance, has collected its seventh rock sample from the Red Planet. The rover is expected to collect one more sample before it heads to the Jezero Crater's ancient river delta to find signs of ancient Martian life.
A piece of Ohio landed on Mars Monday when NASA gave the name of the Wright Brothers to a dusty plain where for the first time, a powered vehicle broke the hold of Martian gravity, rose 10 feet, hovered and safely came back to rest. Mere hours after Monday’s successful test of the helicopter named Ingenuity, NASA Associate Administrator for Science Thomas Zurbuchen christened the ground Wright Brothers Field for the Dayton inventors who first flew a powered aircraft Dec. 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. “Now, 117 years after the Wright brothers succeeded in making the first flig...
Tweet Perseverance, NASA’s latest rover to head to Mars, landed successfully on the Red Planet about 3:55 Eastern on Thursday, ushering in a new era of Mars exploration for the space agency. Perseverance, which launched in July 2020, carries a lot more scientific equipment and instruments than its sibling Curiosity, which landed on Mars in 2012. Included in that equipment is a way of collecting samples to be sent back to Earth, as well as a Mars first: A helicopter! The aerial acrobatics performed by the rover during landing included a super-sonic dive through the atmosphere, the depl...