Mars, NASA and Zebra
NASA has named its Mars 2020 rover, “Perseverance,” as it prepares for launch this summer. The name is a result of a nationwide contest, which accepted more than 28,000 essays from K-12 ...
it had successfully charged the batteries aboard a tiny helicopter that is hitching a ride in the belly of the Mars 2020 rover, Perseverance. Although the helicopter, aptly named Ingenuity ...
which will be printed in almost impossibly small text on a chip included on the Mars 2020 rover, are being gathered via a sign-up form on the agency’s website. Now, with just a couple of weeks ...
In April, Mars 2020 got an antenna that will enable it to communicate with Earth. NASA will be able to steer this antenna to point directly at Earth. That way, the rover won't have to change ...
Such as, say, Mars. So [Matthew Earl] sought to give Perseverance rover’s landing video some context by projecting onto orbital imagery from ESA’s Mars Express. The resulting video (embedded ...
Oh, and the Mars 2020 rover still needs a name. As it’s done in the past, NASA is enlisting the help of the public to come up with a moniker for its fancy new robot. Starting this week ...
It’s all about celestial mechanics. Illustration of NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover studying a Mars rock outcrop (not to scale). ... [+] Mars 2020 is targeted for launch in July/August ...
The Mars 2020 rover will be powered by a Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (MMRTG)—similar to the unit currently providing power to Curiosity in Gale Crater—which converts heat ...
Live updates from Friday morning's ULA Cert-2 mission that launched a Vulcan rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ...
NASA reports another fascinating discovery made by the Perseverance rover on Mars. In Jezero Crater, the device has found a ...