The sound of Huyghens's descent toward Titan was one of the most moving moments of my life.
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SpaceX and other space stuff
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I can't wait for a full video+audio of that descent. That's gonna be a show.
Yeah, that audio was a first for me. And the lakes. The big, frakkin' lakes! Incredible.
The Huygens/Titan team or the Perseverance team? Either way, it's way cool.
The "Ingenuity" helicopter has sent its initial check-in signal! 
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The technology demonstration has phoned home from where it is attached to the belly of NASA’s Perseverance rover.
Mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have received the first status report from the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, which landed Feb. 18, 2021, at Jezero Crater attached to the belly of the agency’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. The downlink, which arrived at 3:30 p.m. PST (6:30 p.m. EST) via a connection through the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, indicates that both the helicopter, which will remain attached to the rover for 30 to 60 days, and its base station (an electrical box on the rover that stores and routes communications between the rotorcraft and Earth) are operating as expected.
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The technology demonstration has phoned home from where it is attached to the belly of NASA’s Perseverance rover.
Mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have received the first status report from the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, which landed Feb. 18, 2021, at Jezero Crater attached to the belly of the agency’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. The downlink, which arrived at 3:30 p.m. PST (6:30 p.m. EST) via a connection through the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, indicates that both the helicopter, which will remain attached to the rover for 30 to 60 days, and its base station (an electrical box on the rover that stores and routes communications between the rotorcraft and Earth) are operating as expected.
I seem to recall in the briefing posted here, one of the team said they were going to be working through the weekend to gather and compile all the data from EDL (entry, descent, and landing), and hoped to have something to see on Monday or so. It's a lot of data, being transmitted a long way, in small amounts at a time, so it's probably good to have a bit of patience and flexibility with that estimate.
There was a launch today FROM MARS... the Mid Atlantic Regional Spaceport, that is. Northup Grumman launched a Cygnus cargo/supply mission to the ISS from Wallops Island, Virginia.
Northrop Grumman launches cargo ship to space station
Northrop Grumman launches cargo ship to space station
That article is actually a bit from David Brown’s excellent book ‘The Mission’ about efforts to get a mission to Europa approved by NASA. Highly recommended!
About 145 raw images from Perseverance now online. These are from the HazCams (Hazard Avoidance Cameras) mounted around the rover.
Images from the Mars Perseverance Rover
Alot of cameras on this rover.
Rover Cameras.
Images from the Mars Perseverance Rover
Alot of cameras on this rover.
Rover Cameras.
NASA press conference at 2pm Eastern Time. Scuttlebutt in the NASA forum is new pics and re-entry video.
OMFG!
I quit smoking years ago.
I need a cig NOW! LOL
Quality insanely good and smooth. This landing vid was wicked cool.
I quit smoking years ago.
I need a cig NOW! LOL
Quality insanely good and smooth. This landing vid was wicked cool.
