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On its ambitious sixth flight, the Mars helicopter Ingenuity encountered an airborne navigation glitch that caused it to tilt back and forth while making unplanned velocity changes, but the small drone-like craft was still able to land safely, mission managers at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena said today.
The sixth flight of the history-making helicopter the first to perform controlled flight on another world was planned as one of its most daring excursions to date. The helicopter was programmed to travel a total of more than 700 feet, demonstrating its aerial photography skills by snapping stereo images of terrain to its west while it flew, then touch down in a new landing field.
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11 history-making Mars Perseverance rover moments, captured on camera
In the days following Perseverance’s Mars touch-down, NASA’s latest rover has been busy sending images back to Earth. Perseverance will look for signs of past microbial life and provide important information that will help scientists prepare for future human exploration on the Red Planet.
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A Slow Descent This high-resolution still image is part of a video taken by several cameras as NASA’s Perseverance rover touched down on Mars on 18 February 2021. A camera aboard the descent stage captured this shot.
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Actor Vivek Oberoi Initiates Educational Scholarship Worth 16 Cr for Rural Children
90 virtual learning centres will be set up in smaller cities which will impart training to students for IIT exams and medical entrance exams.
| 19 Feb 2021 3:45 PM GMT
MUMBAI: Bollywood actor Vivek Anand Oberoi has initiated a campaign that intends to provide educational scholarships for children born to farmers in rural India. The scholarship is worth Rs 16 crore. The scholarship also aims at assisting children in villages crack competitive examinations like JEE and NEET.
The Saathiya star said he wants to ensure that bright students are not held back from higher educational opportunities due to obstacles like the geography they belong to.