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Tag Archives: Mars Rover
What a rocket launch looks like… from space.
What a rocket launch looks like from space. This is from APOD. The launch of a Soyez resupply mission for the ISS. One of these days, I’ll make a radio contact with the ISS as it passes over. Meanwhile, on … Read More
WATCH – 18 Feb 21 – Mars Rover “Perseverance” to land at approx. 1555 EST
UPDATE 19 Feb: Just too cool… Perseverance has microphones. HERE From NASA: Tune in for live coverage and landing commentary from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) beginning at 2:15 p.m. EST on the NASA TV Public Channel and the agency’s website, … Read More
Seven minutes of terror
No, I don’t mean the homily at “liturgy” by Sister Randi over at the merged cluster of “Sing A New Faith Community Into Being Faith Community” in the Diocese of Libville. Here is a video explaining the landing of Perseverance … Read More
LAUNCH! PERSEVERANCE has MOXIE
This morning I arose to view the launch of the Mars rover Perseverance. It’s on its way to Jezero Crater. An Atlas V took the rover up. As I write, we are waiting for the Centaur rocket to burn. The … Read More
One year ago…. Opportunity was declared dead.
It was one year ago that the Mars rovers Opportunity was declared dead. HERE A sad day. But we now have a SPACE FORCE! A different sort of opportunity was declared dead just the other day at the release of … Read More
Opportunity: R.I.P.
How sad. Mars rover Opportunity seems to have come to the end of its mission. HERE Low batteries and a bad dust storm. That was it. A 3 month mission lasted almost 15 years.
A massive storm has changed the appearance of Mars!
From Spaceweather I learned that a massive dust storm on Mars has changed the appearance of the planet. DUST STORM SWALLOWS MARS: A martian dust storm that started in late May, silencing NASA’s Opportunity rover, [sigh] has now wrapped itself around … Read More
How Spirit got there
Poor little Spirit isn’t working anymore (so far as we know), but this is how he got there!
JUST TOO COOL: Of Niobids and Rovers
This is simply too cool. Every once in a while, we find something from antiquity that we knew about but thought lost. Check this out, from Gazzetta del Sud. Dorothy King’s PhDiva has a lot of photos. With a biretta tip … Read More
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Tagged Curiosity, Mars Rover, NASA, Niobe, Ovid
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Cool spacey stuff: bouncing on Titan and Martian carwashes
First, The Huygens probe has landed on Saturn’s moon, Titan. There is a description and animation of how it hit the surface and then bounced, slid and wobbled into its resting position. HERE. Huygens was ferried to Titan by the … Read More
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