New photos give us the best-ever look at NASA's InSight lander on the surface of Mars and show the route the agency's Curiosity rover is taking up a big Red Planet mountain.
The imagery comes courtesy of the HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), which has been circling the Red Planet since March 2006.
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Much smaller details are visible as well. For example, the shiny object near InSight's lower side is the cover for the lander's seismometer suite, which shields the supersensitive instrument from the elements! Videos for NASA Spots InSight Mars Lander And Mars Orbiter Spots Both NASA Lander And Rover On Red Planet msn.com!! This cover is so bright because it is dome-shaped and therefore reflects a lot of light, NASA officials said.
HiRISE, which is short for High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, has photographed InSight before . But this latest image is clearer than previous shots because there's less dust in the air, NASA officials said. MRO's viewing angle and favorable lighting also contributed to a crisp and clean image.
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NASA said that it selected Loverro to be the next associate administrator for human exploration and operations, more than three months after the agency reassigned Bill Gerstenmaier to a senior advisor position! NASA orbiter spots InSight lander (and its junk) on Mars ...www.geekwire.com /2018/ ...spots - insight - ...hardware- mars ...In today's mission update, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory says the lander , heat shield and parachute are all within 1,000 feet of one another on the "heavenly plain" where InSight is gearing up...!! Ken Bowersox, who had been acting associate administrator since that reassignment, will return to his prior position as deputy associate administrator.
Since leaving the Pentagon in 2017 he's run his own consulting company and has been an outspoken advocate for some national security space initiatives, notably the proposed Space Force. "Space is too vital for the nation to not have a military service devoted to the idea that its singular job is to keep the U.S. in the lead," he argued in a June 2018 op-ed supporting the Space Force .
NASA announced the hiring at the start of a hearing by the House Appropriations Committee's commerce, justice and science subcommittee on NASA's Artemis program.
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LAS CRUCES, N.M. — NASA has yet to set a launch date for the first test flight of its long-delayed Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket, which the agency plans to use to send astronauts to the lunar surface in 2024. And it looks like more delays could be right around the corner.
Although NASA said this summer that its new rocket should finally lift off by the end of 2020 , the first mission may slip to the middle of 2021, Ken Bowersox, NASA's acting associate administrator for human exploration and operations, said in a presentation here at the International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPCS) on Oct. 10.
That mission, known as Artemis 1, will send an uncrewed Orion spacecraft on a trip around the moon. Following that initial test flight, NASA aims to launch Artemis 2 — the first human mission of NASA's Artemis program — in 2022. That mission will fly astronauts on a loop around the moon, but they won't land there just yet.
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'Pinning' Helps the Mole Move: This GIF shows NASA InSight's heat probe, or "mole," digging about a centimeter (half an inch) below the surface last week. Using a technique called "pinning," InSight recently pressed the scoop on its robotic arm against the self-hammering mole in order to help it dig. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
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NASA's InSight spacecraft has used its robotic arm to help its heat probe, known as "the mole," dig nearly 2 centimeters (3/4 of an inch) over the past week. While modest, the movement is significant: Designed to dig as much as 16 feet (5 meters) underground to gauge the heat escaping from the planet's interior, the mole has only managed to partially bury itself since it started hammering in February 2019.
The recent movement is the result of a new strategy, arrived at after extensive testing on Earth, which found that unexpectedly strong soil is holding up the mole's progress! NASA Spots InSight Mars Lander and Curiosity Rover from ...rover...Home News Science & Astronomy The HiRISE camera on NASA 's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter got its best view yet of the agency's InSight lander o NASA Spots InSight Mars Lander and Curiosity Rover from Space (Photos) | CHOCHILINO!! The mole needs friction from surrounding soil in order to move: Without it, recoil from its self-hammering action will cause it to simply bounce in place! HiRISE Views NASA's InSight and Curiosity on Mars mars .jpl. nasa ...nasas - ...mars /...InSight is part of NASA's Discovery Program, managed by the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Lockheed Martin Space in Denver built the InSight spacecraft , including its cruise stage and lander , and supports spacecraft operations for the mission.!! Pressing the scoop on InSight's robotic arm against the mole, a new technique called "pinning," appears to provide the probe with the friction it needs to continue digging.
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NASA forked out $5 million to SpaceX to help the company do a mandatory investigation of employees after CEO Elon Musk smoked weed on comedian Joe Rogan's podcast last year, according to a media report! Flipboard: NASA Spots InSight Mars Lander and Curiosity ...flipboard.com/article/ ...rover-from...InSight Lander . NASA Spots InSight Mars Lander and Curiosity Rover from Space (Photos) space.com - Mike Wall. New photos give us the best-ever look at NASA 's InSight lander on the surface of Mars and show the route the agency's Curiosity rover is taking up a …!! Meanwhile, NASA ordered Boeing, SpaceX's competitor, to complete the same safety review — and to foot the bill with no help from NASA.
SpaceX and Boeing are both vying to bring astronauts to the International Space Station on commercial spacecraft in the next year or so. Politico further reported that while NASA freely gave financial assistance to SpaceX, Boeing (which was dragged into this situation only because Musk publicly smoked some weed) did not receive any help.
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Space strategist Pete Garrettson, a recently retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, told Politico that the incident brings up a few issues. "As a taxpayer, why would I pay when I don't have to?" he asked. "If I was Boeing, I also would have said, 'Why am I being punished without the same compensation?'"
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