The giant canopy that helped land Perseverance on Mars was tested here on Earth at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
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NASA’s InSight Gets a Few Extra Weeks of Mars Science
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The mission’s team has chosen to operate its seismometer longer than previously planned, although the lander will run out...
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Hide and Seek
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Even before the end of Ingenuity’s primary mission as a technology demonstrator, the helicopter showed that it...
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Images From NASA’s Perseverance May Show Record of Wild Martian River
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Evidence left in rocks is leading scientists to rethink what watery environments looked like on ancient Mars....
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NASA to Attempt First Controlled Flight on Mars As Soon As Monday
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A livestream will begin at 3:15 a.m. PDT that morning as the helicopter team prepares to receive the data...
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7 Things to Know About the NASA Rover About to Land on Mars
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The Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, which has started its approach to the Red Planet, will help answer the next...
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NASA’s InSight Finds Three Big Marsquakes, Thanks to Solar-Panel Dusting
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The lander cleared enough dust from one solar panel to keep its seismometer on through the summer, allowing scientists...
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Flight 39 Preview – By the Numbers
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Flight: 39 Flight date: NET 01/11/2023 Horizontal flight distance: 456 feet (139 meters) Flight duration: 75.56 seconds...
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Flight 71 Preview – By the Numbers
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Flight 71 Expected flight date: 01/06/2024 Horizontal flight distance: 358.3 meters Expected flight time: 124.92 seconds Flight altitude: 12 meters Heading: West...
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