May 11, 2021
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its dual-camera Mastcam-Z imager to capture this image of “Santa Cruz,” a hill about 1.5 miles (2.5 kilometers) away from the rover, on April 29, 2021, the 68th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The entire scene is inside of Mars’ Jezero Crater; the crater’s rim can be seen on the horizon line beyond the hill.
This scene is not white balanced; instead, it is displayed in a preliminary calibrated version of a natural-color composite, approximately simulating the colors of the scene as it would appear to a person on Mars. An enhanced color version is also included.
May 09 2021
Milwaukie educator David Kays announces run against the board member who was arrested on prostitution charges.
A Milwaukie educator has announced a write-in campaign for the Clackamas Community College board of directors against unopposed incumbent Dave Hunt, who recently was arrested on prostitution charges.
The election is May 18.
David Kays, a 33-year educator, is a music instructor who has taught at Lincoln High School in Portland since 2015. Before that, he taught in the Gladstone School District for 15 years. I was filling out my own ballot Friday night and realized that I couldn t vote for the incumbent, given his current legal issues, Kays said. My family had a quick discussion and agreed to write me in. By the next morning, we agreed other people might like an alternative, too, and I would be happy to serve the CCC community for a four-year term. Now I m asking for others to write me in.
April 19, 2021
The first flight of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was captured in this image from Mastcam-Z, a pair of zoomable cameras aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover on April 19, 2021. The milestone marked the first powered, controlled flight on another planet.
Flying in a controlled manner on Mars is far more difficult than flying on Earth. The Red Planet has significant gravity (about one-third that of Earth’s), but its atmosphere is just 1% as dense as Earth’s at the surface.
Stitched together from multiple images, the mosaic is not white balanced; instead, it is displayed in a preliminary calibrated version of a natural color composite, approximately simulating the colors of the scene that we would see if we were there viewing it ourselves.
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NASA s Odyssey Orbiter Marks 20 Historic Years of Mapping Mars
Odyssey’s Launch: Click (or touch) and drag to interact with this 3D model of NASA’s Odyssey orbiter, which celebrates its 20th launch anniversary on April 7, 2021. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
For two decades, the longest-lived spacecraft at the Red Planet has helped locate water ice, assess landing sites, and study the planet’s mysterious moons.
NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft launched 20 years ago on April 7, making it the oldest spacecraft still working at the Red Planet. The orbiter, which takes its name from Arthur C. Clarke’s classic sci-fi novel “2001: A Space Odyssey” (Clarke blessed its use before launch), was sent to map the composition of the Martian surface, providing a window to the past so scientists could piece together how the planet evolved.