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...
youtu.be/AYXQFnrVJFQ?s=idg&k=1614981427885 NASA喷气推进实验室 Now that the Perseverance Mars rover is on the Red Planet, mission controllers have made substantial progress as they prepare for the robotic astrobiologist to hit the unpaved road ahead. Join us as t 知识 科学科普 NASA JPL Mars ...
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- NASA's InSight spacecraft touched down safely on Mars on Monday, kicking off its two-year mission as the first spacecraft designed to explore the deep interior of another world. Launched on May 5, InSight marks NASA's first landing on Mars since the Cu...
Launched on May 5, InSight marks NASA's first landing on Mars since the Curiosity rover in 2012 and the first dedicated to studying the deep interior of the red planet.
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In a Twitter exchange on Friday, SpaceX founder Elon Musk said humanity's estimated timeframe for creating a self-sustaining civilization on Mars is two to three decades away from the first human landing. 在周五的一次推特交流中,SpaceX 创始人埃隆·马斯克表示,从人类首次登陆到人类在火星上创造一个...
NASA's Perseverance is one of the three missions targeting the red planet this month. On February 10, China's Tianwen-1 has entered the Mars orbit and started its three-step mission – orbiting, landing and roving. The probe, including an orbiter, a lander and a rover, will circle the...
" Mission Recovery Operations announced, immediately repeating the news since the landing occurred three minutes early. Officials later said the orange striped parachute opened four times higher than anticipated — around 20,000 feet (6,100 meters) — correctly basing it on the dec...
To be sure, the Red Planet has become notorious for itsdust devils, particularly at Jezero crater, the landing site of Perseverance. Mars does indeed get windy, but it's not like on Earth, say NASA jet propulsion laboratory scientists based at Caltech. The gusts can blow fast, but not ...
"Getting the seismometer safely on the ground is an awesome Christmas present," he said. The InSight team has been working carefully toward deploying its two dedicated science instruments onto Martian soil since landing on Mars on Nov. 26. Besides the seismometer, also known as the Seismic Exper...