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NASA s Mars helicopter Ingenuity touches down on Red Planet
NASA s Mars helicopter Ingenuity has been dropped on the surface of the Red Planet ahead of its historic first flight scheduled for April 11. Ingenuity flew to Mars while being attached to the belly of NASA s Perseverance rover, which made a February 18 touch down on the Red Planet. #MarsHelicopter touchdown confirmed! Its 293 million mile (471 million km) journey aboard @NASAPersevere ended with the final drop of 4 inches (10 cm) from the rover s belly to the surface of Mars today, NASA s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, tweeted late on Saturday. Next milestone? Survive the night.
Ровер Perseverance записал звуки своего лазера на Марсе piter.tv - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from piter.tv Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A town quite remote heard Perseverance
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This NASA handout illustration shows a descent illustration to Mars, of the spacecraft containing NASA s Perseverance rover.
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By the time you read this, either the rover will be safely settled on the planet’s surface, or it will be destroyed. Indeed: The plan is that Nasa’s Perseverance rover will touch down on Mars at about 2.30am IST on Friday, 19 February. So yes, when you read this, you will likely know its fate.
With any touchdown on another celestial body like our own Chandrayaan from 18 months ago there’s substantial uncertainty in the operation. Will the craft withstand the heat on entry into the atmosphere? How will it decelerate from the speed it has cruised at for months? Can it land gently enough so that nothing is damaged?
Meet Swati Mohan, Indian-American leading NASA s operation Perseverance Rover landing on Mars
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Dr Mohan emigrated from India to America when she was just one-year-old
She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Cornell University and completed her MS and PhD from MIT in Aeronautics/Astronautics
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After covering a 203-day journey traversing 293 million miles (472 million kilometres), the American space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Thursday (local time) announced that its Perseverance rover has reached Mars.
Among the scientists who are part of this historic mission, Indian-American Dr Swati Mohan spearheaded the development of attitude control and the landing system for the rover.