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NASA’s Mars Helicopter Reports In

By Alana Johnson | NASA, DC Agle \ JPL on Feb 20, 2021   Featured, Science/Education  

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Reports In

Mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have received the first status report from the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, which landed Feb. 18, 2021, at Jezero Crater attached to the belly of the agency’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. The downlink, which arrived at 3:30 p.m. PST (6:30 p.m. EST) via a connection through the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, […]

NASA Tracked Small Asteroid Before It Broke Up in Atmosphere

By Alana Johnson | NASA, Gretchen McCartney | JPL on Jul 14, 2019   Featured, Science/Education  

NASA Tracked Small Asteroid Before It Broke Up in Atmosphere

  This GIF shows the flash of an asteroid impacting Earth’s atmosphere over the Caribbean Sea on June 22, 2019. It was captured by the Geostationary Lightning Mapper instrument aboard GOES-16, an Earth-monitoring satellite operated by NOAA and NASA. CIRA/CSU, RAMMB/NOAA/NASA  › Larger view When a lightning detector on a NOAA weather satellite detected something […]

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Completes Flight Tests

By Alana Johnson | NASA, DC Agle | NASA-Jet Propulsion Lab on Apr 1, 2019   Featured, Science/Education  

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Completes Flight Tests

Since the Wright brothers first took to the skies of Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, Dec. 17, 1903, first flights have been important milestones in the life of any vehicle designed for air travel. After all, it’s one thing to design an aircraft and make it fly on paper — or computer. It is quite […]



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