Tag: JPL
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter recently surveyed both the parachute that helped the agency’s Perseverance rover land on Mars and the cone-shaped backshell that protected the rover in deep space and during its fiery descent toward the Martian surface on...
With its recent 21st flight complete, the Red Planet rotorcraft is on its way to setting more records during its second year of operations.
NASA has extended flight operations of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter through September. In the months ahead,...
A group of 20 young students who have shown the character trait that NASA’s Perseverance rover is named for received messages of encouragement directly from that six-wheeled scientist on Mars.
The first set of middle-schoolers in the agency’s “You’ve Got...
Members of the public can now help teach an artificial intelligence algorithm to recognize scientific features in images taken by NASA’s Perseverance rover.
AI4Mars: Rover Wheel: Parts of Perseverance are visible beside an area outlined in AI4Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
Artificial intelligence,...
With Covid restrictions a little more relaxed, scientists from Europe and the USA were finally able to team up for a long-awaited field experiment to ensure that a new Copernicus satellite called CHIME will deliver the best possible data...
Scientists tap into an array of imagers aboard the six-wheeled explorer to get a big picture of the Red Planet.
NASA’s Perseverance rover has been exploring Jezero Crater for more than 217 Earth days (211 Martian days, or sols), and...
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter provided a 3D view of a rock-covered mound during its 13th flight on Sept. 4.
The plan for this reconnaissance mission into the “South Seítah” region of Mars’ Jezero Crater was to capture images of this...
The evening of Aug. 1 felt a lot like a birthday to NASA planetary scientist Justin Simon. On that night, Simon attended a virtual watch party for researchers preparing to use NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover to conduct the...
Data received from NASA’s Perseverance rover indicate the team has achieved its goal of successfully coring a Mars rock. The initial images downlinked after the historic event show an intact sample present in the tube after coring. However, additional...
Created at NASA’s JPL, the open-source flight software called F Prime isn’t just powering humanity’s first interplanetary helicopter, it’s also powering inspiration at multiple universities.
When NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter hovered above the Red Planet April 19 on its maiden...
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