By Paul Scott Anderson, on February 22nd, 2021
Perseverance’s touchdown on Mars. Photos: NASA/JPL
Since its successful landing on February 18 in Jezero Crater, mission scientists for the Perseverance rover have been providing updates on the status of the rover, and so far everything seems to continue to go well. Today, NASA held a media briefing to show the amazing video footage […]
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By Paul Scott Anderson, on February 18th, 2021
The first low-rez raw image sent back by Perseverance from the ancient lakebed in Jezero Crater, showing many small rocks. Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
After a journey of 292.5 million miles (470.8 million kilometers), NASA’s Perseverance rover has finally reached its destination – an ancient lakebed in Jezero Crater on Mars. The rover, the most […]
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By Paul Scott Anderson, on February 14th, 2021
On Feb. 18, 2021, the Perseverance rover will land in Jezero Crater using the same sky crane technique that the Curiosity rover used in 2012. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA’s new Mars rover, Perseverance is in the final hours of its voyage to Mars, aiming for a landing in Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021. […]
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By Paul Scott Anderson, on November 18th, 2020
Artist’s illustration of the Perseverance rover on Mars. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA’s latest Mars rover, Perseverance, is now less than 100 days away from its landing in Jezero Crater on Mars (94 days at the time of this writing). The rover is currently just over 177 million miles (285 million kilometers) from its destination, […]
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By Paul Scott Anderson, on September 18th, 2020
Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket ‘It’s Business Time’ on the pad at LC-1. Rocket Lab wants to use this rocket to launch a Photon probe to Venus as soon as 2023. Photo Credit: Kieran Fanning
Last Monday, an international team of scientists announced one of the most intriguing discoveries in space to date: the molecule […]
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By Paul Scott Anderson, on August 24th, 2020
Artist’s illustration of the Perseverance rover mission in flight, leaving Earth on its way to Mars. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Mars has been in the news a lot lately, with the successful launches of NASA’s Perseverance rover, the United Arab Emirates’ Hope orbiter and China’s Tianwen-1 orbiter, lander and rover. All three missions will arrive […]
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By Paul Scott Anderson, on July 21st, 2020
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in the clean room at Northrop Grumman, Redondo Beach, California, in July 2020. NASA has now announced a new launch date in 2021 for the often-delayed mission. Photo Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the much-anticipated new space observatory that is regarded as being […]
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By Paul Scott Anderson, on April 29th, 2020
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (right) will pick up where the Hubble (left) will soon leave off, observing the universe in infrared & looking further back in time than Hubble ever could. Photos: NASA
April 24 marked the 30th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), which has given humanity some of the most […]
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By Paul Scott Anderson, on April 14th, 2020
Photo of the Mars Helicopter, after it was attached to the bottom of the rover (lower center of image). Photo Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Despite the on-going COVID-19 pandemic, preparations for the launch of NASA’s next rover to Mars this July, Perseverance, are continuing on schedule. Most recently, the engineering and technician team completed two more […]
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By Paul Scott Anderson, on March 23rd, 2020
The Perseverance rover undergoing processing at a payload servicing facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Feb. 14, 2020. Photo Credit: NASA
NASA’s Perseverance rover just reached big another milestone in its preparations for launch to Mars this summer. Key components of the rover’s sample handling system have now been installed. This system will […]
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