Enjoying the first normal Easter weekend in three years, residents in the Ottawa Valley were embracing the spirit of the long weekend this Good Friday.
In February, NASA made history with the successful landing of a car-sized robotic explorer on Mars, and its counterpart: a small helicopter that more recently proved powered flight is possible even in the thin atmosphere of Mars.
Together this dynamic duo will unlock even more of the Red Planet’s secrets. The Ingenuity helicopter, a technology demonstration, is set to make a second, more complex flight next week.
Meanwhile, the Perseverance rover showed that it definitely has MOXIE in more ways than one its Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE for short) extracted carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere and converted it into oxygen.