Nasa’s new Mars rover hits the dusty red road in its first test drive
The Perseverance rover completed a drive lasting more than half an hour.
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The Perseverance rover completed a drive lasting more than half an hour.
The equipment will support the first set of improved solar panels, due to arrive in June.
Mission Control said it would need to work on “kindergarten skills” after some painted lines were slightly off.
The panorama is composed of 142 individual images stitched together on Earth, NASA said.
The agency also released new images the rover took on the Martian surface.
The rover – a scientific laboratory the size of a car – is on a mission to search for signs of ancient life.
The rover landed on the red planet in the Jezero Crater at 8:55 Irish time.
Perseverance is the largest and most sophisticated vehicle ever sent to Mars.
Both the UAE and China are newcomers to Mars, where more than half of Earth’s emissaries have failed.
The digger was supposed to dig 16ft into Mars but only drilled down a couple of feet.
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The findings may have implications for future missions to the moon.
NASA is to announce “new science results” about the Moon tomorrow.
The probe is thought to have collected some 400 grams of fragments, far more than the minimum of 60 grams needed.
Only Japan has previously collected asteroid samples.
The capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico at the expected time of 7.48pm.
Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley are set to come back to Earth tomorrow evening.
The rocket took off in California despite a 4.2 magnitude earthquake.
If all goes as planned, the mission will see SpaceX become the first private company to send astronauts into space.
“I’m still alive. As long as I can keep breathing, I’m good,” mission commander Jim Lovell (92) said.
It will be the fifth exploratory vehicle on the Red Planet.
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Christina Koch also made history as one half of the first-ever all-woman spacewalk.
The two-day demo was originally due to last for over a week.
There have been 227 spacewalkers since the first spacewalk in 1965 and all of them have included a male.
NASA astronaut Anne McClain has admitted to accessing her ex-partner’s bank account from the International Space Station.
Private astronauts may soon be able to visit the ISS for $35,000 a night.
Nasa has said the new seismic event was too small to provide solid data on the Martian interior.
Vice President Mike Pence has said failure to return to the moon by 2024 is “not an option”.
Nasa said it does its best to anticipate the spacesuit sizes, but that a person’s body may change when they’re in orbit.
The announcement was met with applause at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
The launch is a key step towards resuming manned space flights from US soil.
The last person to walk on the moon was Eugene Cernan in December 1972, and Nasa wants to change that.
The rover has been out of contact since a dust storm on the Red Planet.
The cosmic object – known as Ultima Thule – is about the size of the US capital, Washington, and orbits in the Kuiper Belt about a billion miles beyond Pluto.
The spacecraft’s closest approach to the cosmic object, known as Ultima Thule, comes 1 January at 5.33am.
The rings are being pulled into Saturn by gravity as a dusty rain of ice particles under the influence of Saturn’s magnetic field.
Voyager 2 is now more than 18 billion kilometres from Earth.