Perseverance rover snaps first Mars photos after communications blackout. They're stunning.
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has emerged from its first "solar conjunction" blackout and gotten back to work on the Red Planet. It's even phoned home with its first Mars photos since reawakening.
The car-sized Perseverance and other Mars spacecraft had to stand down for about two weeks recently when the Red Planet slipped behind the sun from Earth's perspective.
Microbes could help future Mars explorers make rocket fuel and oxygen on the Red Planet | Space
Future Mars astronauts could make rocket fuel on the Red Planet using air, water and sunlight, a new study finds. The technology could fuel the astronauts' flights back to Earth.
Making rocket fuel on Mars instead of shipping it from Earth could not only save billions of dollars, but it could also generate tons of oxygen to help people exploring Mars breathe, scientists added.
Help NASA's Rovers to Explore Mars With the AI4Mars Project | Digital Trends
Artificial intelligence could be a huge help to Mars rovers like NASA’s Curiosity or Perseverance, but first these A.I. systems need to be trained on what to look for.
The AI4Mars project was launched last year , and users have already labeled nearly half a million images to help develop the Soil Property and Object Classification (SPOC) algorithm.
ESA's Mars Express Orbiter Will Try to 'Listen' to China's Mars Rover
However, it can not get this data back to Earth on its own. Instead, it requires the help of orbiters such as the European Space Agency's (ESA) Mars Express. Why?
Rovers use these radios to send their data up to Mars's roaming orbiters, which then forward it back to Earth where scientists eagerly await to receive it and analyze it.
Europe's Mars orbiter to read the signals in 'blind' dates with China's rover | South China
Frosted Gullies In Mars' Northern Summer - SpaceRef
Although it was late summer when we acquired this image (2010), you can see frost within the gully alcoves. These alcoves are on the poleward facing crater wall and so spend much of the time in shadow. This allows the frost to survive.
The full-image shows that the opposite (south-facing) wall has similar gullies, but no frost during this season. Scientists are analyzing many images like this in order to try and answer the broader question of whether liquid water is responsible for the these gullies or not.
From stargazing to managing a NASA Mars mission
Bruce Banerdt has the job he's been dreaming of since he was a child growing up in the California desert, watching Neil Armstrong's "giant leap for mankind" on TV. "I always wanted to go to space," he says.
Not that Banerdt is an astronaut. He's principal investigator for a Mars mission. Astronauts, he realised growing up, spend a lot of time running other people's experiments.
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