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NASA’s Mars Helicopter Reports In

Portal origin URL: NASA’s Mars Helicopter Reports In Portal origin nid: 468504Published: Friday, February 19, 2021 - 17:23Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The technology demonstration has phoned home from where it is attached to the belly of NASA’s Perseverance rover.Portal image: n this illustration, NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter stands...

NASA Missions Make Unprecedented Map of Sun’s Magnetic Field

Portal origin URL: NASA Missions Make Unprecedented Map of Sun’s Magnetic FieldPortal origin nid: 468436Published: Friday, February 19, 2021 - 14:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: For the first time, a NASA mission has made multi-height measurements of the solar chromosphere’s magnetic field. The observations extend our measurement capability...

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Sends Sneak Peek of Mars Landing

Portal origin URL: NASA’s Perseverance Rover Sends Sneak Peek of Mars LandingPortal origin nid: 468476Published: Friday, February 19, 2021 - 12:47Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Less than a day after NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover successfully landed on the surface of Mars, engineers and scientists at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory...

Big ideas in small packages takes off

On Feb. 20, 2021, Northrop Grumman will launch its Cygnus cargo spacecraft aboard an Antares rocket to deliver several tons of cargo and supplies to the International Space Station for its 15th resupply mission (CRS-15). Included in these bulky supplies will be a handful of items that weigh no more than a few grams – a sampling of seeds, some microscopic proteins, and a few small worms....