News Archive / Tagged: Perseverance
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NASA releases 3D video of Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s 3rd flight
Michael McCabeMay 31st, 2021On April 25, 2021, the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter performed its third test flight. Recently, NASA engineers converted a video of the flight into anaglyph 3D.
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Ingenuity helicopter flies ‘half the length of a football field’
Cullen DesforgesApril 26th, 2021Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California have received data confirming a successful third flight of Ingenuity, its most ambitious yet.
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Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flies for a second time
Cullen DesforgesApril 22nd, 2021After making history as the first powered aircraft on another planet, the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flew for a second time, this time even farther and longer.
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‘Wright brothers moment’: Ingenuity takes flight on Mars
Cullen DesforgesApril 19th, 2021With NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, history has been made as humankind made the next great stride in powered flight; the first flight on another planet.
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Software issue delays Ingenuity Mars helicopter’s first flight
Cullen DesforgesApril 14th, 2021History will have to wait a little longer as the first flight of the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars has been delayed by at least a week.
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Ingenuity helicopter deployed onto the Martian surface
Cullen DesforgesApril 5th, 2021NASA’s first interplanetary helicopter has touched the surface of Mars for the first time after being deployed from underneath the Perseverance rover.
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Engineers detail plans for Ingenuity Mars helicopter’s first flight
Michael McCabeMarch 24th, 2021Now that NASA’s Perseverance rover is safely on Mars, all eyes are shifting toward the deployment of a small technology demonstration, a drone-like helicopter called Ingenuity.
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Perseverance rover begins driving across the surface of Mars
Cullen DesforgesMarch 13th, 2021In the weeks since Perseverance landed on Mars, the images, science and sounds that have come from the mission have proven to be groundbreaking.
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Perseverance rover transmits ‘iconic’ video from Mars
Derek RichardsonFebruary 22nd, 2021NASA has released never-before-seen video from Mars — the highly-anticipated views of the Perseverance rover from multiple entry, descent and landing cameras.
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NASA town hall shares updates on science missions
Laurel KornfeldOctober 2nd, 2020At a community town hall which was broadcast live on September 10, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate provided updates on the agency’s many ongoing and upcoming science missions.
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Perseverance rover launches on its journey to explore Mars
Matt HaskellJuly 30th, 2020CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – At 7:50 a.m. EDT, the ULA Atlas V rocket lifted off on its journey to Mars with NASA’s Perseverance rover, and Ingenuity helicopter.
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NASA, ULA on the eve of launch of Perseverance Mars rover
Matt HaskellJuly 29th, 2020Years of hard work and preparation have culminated in NASA’s newest Mars rover, Perseverance, sitting atop its United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at Cape Canaveral, set to leave Earth as early as 7:50 a.m. EDT (11:50 UTC) Thursday morning.
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Mars 2020 Flight Readiness Review complete, Launch Readiness Review tomorrow
Theresa CrossJuly 26th, 2020Preparations continue at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for the upcoming Mars 2020 launch, currently scheduled to liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 41 on Thursday, July 30, 2020. Most recently completed was the Flight Readiness Review, the critical review step which confirmed the readiness of the equipment, teams and resources required […]
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Perseverance mission scientist outlines rover’s instruments, mission
Laurel KornfeldJune 23rd, 2020One month before the scheduled launch of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, Roger Wiens, who serves as both principal investigator of its SuperCam laser instrument and as co-investigator of its SHERLOC team, discussed the mission’s science instruments and its purpose in a virtual webinar presented by the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI).
