Mars

Entry, descent, and landing on Mars is a challenge for any mission, with vehicles enduring extreme gravitational forces, high temperatures, and pressure changes ...

Our landing spot set us up nicely to image an area of interest for the Perseverance science team on Flight 2, near ‘Séítah’ ridge,” said Håvard Grip, chief pilot of Ingenuity at JPL. And if not, the pictures are still phenomenal and inspiring,” Ian Clark, who worked on Perseverance’s parachute system, said in a statement. Start your Independent Premium subscription today.

NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter has gone viral after snapping photos on the Red Planet of what looked like a flying saucer — but was actually landing gear from ...

“If they either reinforce that our systems worked as we think they worked or provide even one dataset of engineering information we can use for Mars Sample Return planning [an upcoming campaign to analyze Mars surface samples], it will be amazing,” said Clark, a former Perseverance engineer. It had been dispatched by the space agency to survey debris from the Perseverance rover’s historic landing on Feb. 18, 2021. The 10 pics show a UFO-esque conical “backshell” that protected the rover in deep space and during its fiery descent toward the Martian surface.

Nasa's Ingenuity helicopter has discovered “otherworldly” images on Mars. The images have been shared worldwide, with many people commenting on the “sci-fi ...

Earth has been launching missions to Mars since the 1960s, with Nasa’s first successful flyby of the planet taking place in 1965. It exudes otherworldly, doesn’t it?” What has the reaction been to the Mars wreckage?

The Ingenuity helicopter has captured a unique bird's-eye perspective of the gear that helped land the Perseverance rover on Mars.

NASA released images of the parachute and backshell that helped the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter land on Mars -- images the agency says will ...

Ingenuity is a technology demonstration mission that set out to prove it was possible to fly a helicopter in the thin Martian atmosphere. "And, the [parachute's] canopy shows no signs of damage from the supersonic airflow during inflation." "If they either reinforce that our systems worked as we think they worked or provide even one dataset of engineering information we can use for Mars sample return planning, it will be amazing.

I did some very light processing of this Ingenuity helicopter image showing the Perseverance parachute and back shell (center rear of the image). NASA/JPL- ...

It logged the first powered, controlled flight on another planet, and has remarkably kept going despite being a high-risk technology demonstration. It gives a different perspective on the detritus than what we saw when the rover captured a recent photo of the site. And if not, the pictures are still phenomenal and inspiring."

“There's definitely a sci-fi element to it,” Ian Clark, an engineer who worked on Perseverance's parachute system, said of photographs released on Wednesday. “ ...

And if not, the pictures are still phenomenal and inspiring.” “Perseverance had the best-documented Mars landing in history, with cameras showing everything from parachute inflation to touchdown,” said JPL’s Ian Clark, former Perseverance systems engineer and now Mars Sample Return ascent phase lead. From a NY Times article on the photos:

The UAE's Hope spacecraft reached Mars in February of 2021 on a mission to study the Martian atmosphere, an arrival that happened to correspond with a solar ...

It turned out that sections of the Martian crust still act as powerful magnets even after the planet’s global magnetic field shut off ages ago, generating local magnetic force fields that catch charged particles and generate an aurora glow. “We have ideas, but no solid explanation for why we are observing intense aurora of this shape and at planetary scales.” Called a “sinuous discrete aurora,” it consisted of worm-like tendrils of ultraviolet light in the upper atmosphere and snaking halfway around Mars.