1 NASA has flown an aircraft on another planet for the first time. On Monday, April 19, Ingenuity, a 1. 8-kilogram drone (无人机) helicopter, took off from the surface of Mars, flew up about three meters, then hovered for 40 seconds and took photos above with one of its two camera...
February 2021 has been a historical month forMars exploration. While humans have been exploring the red planet for well over 50 years, first landing on its surface in 1971 and then launching the first successful rover in 1997, this year has seen several firsts, namely the first time that th...
The deep-space telescope caught itsfirst direct imageof another alien world. The planet is roughly 385light-yearsfromEarthand looks like a splotch beside the store HIP 65426. Webb saw the exoplanet using its Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and theMid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), which each look...
NASA will also attempt to fly a small helicopter that caught a ride on the rover. Called Ingenuity, it would be the first human-made vehicle to fly on another planet. The mission could help pave the way for humans to go to the red planet. NASA aims to per...
People were running around screaming orders at each other as petabytes of corrupted data loaded itself onto our harddrives. We were frantically trying to find a way to redirect the station so that it would burn up completely in the atmosphere and not rain down as debris on innocent people. Bu...
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Nelson expressed hope that the brightest minds at NASA, JPL and private space companies would find the right solution. "These are folks who can figure out rather difficult things," he said. I'm Bryan Lynn. unwieldy [ʌnˈwi...
Humans first visited the Moon in 1969. The last time we went was 1972, over 50 years ago. Back then, astronauts in the Apollo program made their journeys in spacecraft that relied on remarkably basic electronics that are totally unsophisticated compared to what you might find in an expensive...
She said that date, along with any information on the numberof samples to be transported, will only be included in future missionproposals. "We've never launched from another planet, and that'sactually what makes Mars sample return such a challenging andinteresting mission," Fox said. ...
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