New Delhi, Dec 20 (Ians) NASA’s Mars InSight lander on Tuesday posted its last image on Twitter as it prepares to fall silent anytime, ending its history-making mission to reveal secrets of the Red Planet’s interior.
The spacecraft’s power generation continues to decline as windblown dust on its solar panels thickens. The end is expected to come anytime.
“My power’s really low, so this may be the last image I can send. Don’t worry about me though: my time here has been both productive and serene. If I can keep talking to my mission team, I will – but I’ll be signing off here soon. Thanks for staying with me,” posted the InSight lander team.
The 30-member odd operations team – a small group compared to other Mars missions – continues to squeeze the most they can out of InSight.
The most important of the final steps with...
The spacecraft’s power generation continues to decline as windblown dust on its solar panels thickens. The end is expected to come anytime.
“My power’s really low, so this may be the last image I can send. Don’t worry about me though: my time here has been both productive and serene. If I can keep talking to my mission team, I will – but I’ll be signing off here soon. Thanks for staying with me,” posted the InSight lander team.
The 30-member odd operations team – a small group compared to other Mars missions – continues to squeeze the most they can out of InSight.
The most important of the final steps with...
- 12/20/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Washington, June 3 (Ians) NASA has selected two new missions to study Venus to understand how Earths nearest planetary neighbour became an inferno-like world when it may have been the first habitable world in the solar system, complete with an ocean and Earth-like climate.
The two missions were selected, based on their potential scientific value and the feasibility of their development plans, from four mission concepts that NASA picked in February 2020 as part of the agency's Discovery 2019 competition.
The project teams will now work to finalise their requirements, designs, and development plans. NASA is awarding approximately $500 million per mission for development. Each is expected to launch in the 2028-2030 timeframe.
The first mission Davinci+ will measure the composition of Venus' atmosphere to understand how it formed and evolved, as well as determine whether the planet ever had an ocean.
The mission consists of a descent sphere that will plunge through the planet's thick atmosphere,...
The two missions were selected, based on their potential scientific value and the feasibility of their development plans, from four mission concepts that NASA picked in February 2020 as part of the agency's Discovery 2019 competition.
The project teams will now work to finalise their requirements, designs, and development plans. NASA is awarding approximately $500 million per mission for development. Each is expected to launch in the 2028-2030 timeframe.
The first mission Davinci+ will measure the composition of Venus' atmosphere to understand how it formed and evolved, as well as determine whether the planet ever had an ocean.
The mission consists of a descent sphere that will plunge through the planet's thick atmosphere,...
- 6/3/2021
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
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