Spacewalking astronauts tackle more solar panel advance work
A pair of astronauts are spacewalking for the second time this week to get the International Space Station ready for new solar panels By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer March 5, 2021, 12:02 PM • 2 min read CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — For the second time this week, a pair of astronauts floated outside Friday […]
Spacewalking astronauts prep station for new solar wings
Astronauts are taking a spacewalk outside the International Space Station to install support frames for new solar panels arriving later this year By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer February 28, 2021, 11:17 AM • 3 min read CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Spacewalking astronauts ventured out Sunday to install support frames for new, high-efficiency solar panels […]
China’s Mars craft enters parking orbit before landing rover
China says its Tianwen-1 spacecraft has entered a temporary parking orbit around Mars in anticipation of landing a rover on the red planet in the coming months ByThe Associated Press February 24, 2021, 3:19 AM • 3 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article BEIJING — China says its Tianwen-1 spacecraft has entered […]
NASA releases Mars landing video: ‘Stuff of our dreams’
NASA has released the first high-quality video of a spacecraft landing on Mars By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer February 22, 2021, 10:45 PM • 3 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA on Monday released the first high-quality video of a spacecraft landing on Mars, a three-minute […]
Mars landing team ‘awestruck’ by photo of descending rover
NASA has released the first close-up picture that captures a rover descending to the dusty red surface of Mars By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer February 19, 2021, 8:49 PM • 2 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The world got its first close-up look at a Mars […]
NASA’s Mars rover is about to land in the perfect place to hunt for alien fossils: an ancient lake bed called Jezero Crater
NASA’s Perseverance rover is set to land Thursday in the dried-up Martian lake bed Jezero Crater. It’s ideal for looking for alien fossils because a river deposited microbe-trapping minerals there. Perseverance will search the lake bottom, shorelines, and river delta for signs of ancient microbes. Billions of years ago, Mars was a water world with […]
NASA says a rover has landed on Mars to mine for evidence of whether life once existed there
NASA says a rover has landed on Mars to mine for evidence of whether life once existed there Source link
NASA rover streaks toward a landing on Mars
A NASA rover is hurtling toward a landing on Mars in the riskiest step yet in an epic quest to bring back rocks that could answer whether life ever existed on the red planet By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer February 18, 2021, 5:57 AM • 4 min read CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A NASA […]
Bosnia village with link to Mars enthralled by rover landing
Bosnian villagers are preparing to gather in front of a video screen in the yard of their community’s only school to watch NASA’s Mars rover attempt a difficult landing Thursday in a crater on the Red Planet named after their small village By ALMIR ALIC Associated Press February 17, 2021, 3:01 PM • 4 min […]
NASA rover attempting most difficult Martian touchdown yet
NASA’s latest road trip to Mars is almost complete By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer February 17, 2021, 4:42 PM • 4 min read CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Spacecraft aiming to land on Mars have skipped past the planet, burned up on entry, smashed into the surface, and made it down amid a fierce dust […]
