In The News: Department of Geoscience
NASA鈥檚 Perseverance Rover spent seven months traveling 292 million miles to Mars.
NASA made history Thursday afternoon as the Perseverance rover landed on Mars, and two professors at 性视界传媒 played a part in it.
NASA made history Thursday afternoon as the Perseverance rover landed on Mars, and two professors at 性视界传媒 played a part in it.
Two 性视界传媒 scientists working on NASA鈥檚 new mission to Mars survived 鈥渟even minutes of terror鈥 Thursday as they watched the Perseverance rover鈥檚 perilous but perfect landing on the red planet.
Two 性视界传媒 scientists working on NASA鈥檚 new mission to Mars survived 鈥渟even minutes of terror鈥 Thursday as they watched the Perseverance rover鈥檚 perilous but perfect landing on the red planet.
It's a big day for exploration on Mars!
It's a big day for exploration on Mars!
If all goes right, Thursday the Perseverance Rover will be safely on Martian ground, where it can begin searching for signs of ancient life, and collecting and storing rock and soil samples.
Originally from Valais, the Swiss Arya Udry is associate professor in planetology and martian geology at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas. At 33, she is one of the researchers who will work alongside NASA on the Perseverance rover , which is due to land on the Red Planet this Thursday, February 18 at 9:55 p.m. Swiss time. This enthusiast explains to Heidi.news the hopes that the mission represents for her scientific field, Martian geology. To find in video (above), and in long version in the text below.
NASA鈥檚 rover Perseverance on Thursday neared its encounter with Mars, hewing to a trajectory that will plunge it into the atmosphere of the Red Planet to begin a sequence of maneuvers designed to avoid surface hazards and deposit the rover inside a crater that may hold remnants of ancient life. NASA anticipates the spacecraft will enter the atmosphere about 3:48 p.m. and deploy a parachute four minutes later. Touchdown is expected about 3:55 p.m.
A person can survive 30 days (or more) without food, 3 days without water, and 3 minutes without air. The latest climate research indicates all three will be in short supply as average temperatures on Earth increase. Hotter, drier conditions will reduce harvests, constrain water supplies, and make it more difficult to breathe. Great thinkers like Rex Tillerson say we will adapt, but he and his climate change denier friends fail to appreciate what that adaptation will involve.
When Arya Udry was a little girl, she would stare at the sky and ponder the possibility of life beyond Earth.