#Latin America looks to space, despite limitations on ground

#Latin America looks to space, despite limitations on ground

“#Latin America looks to space, despite limitations on ground” MEXICO CITY — Mars missions, astronauts coming and going at the International Space Station, China’s increasingly ambitious space program. Space-related news is flowing, and not just from the world’s richest, biggest nations. Take Latin America. On Feb. 17, the congress in Nicaragua, one of the region’s poorest, most conflict-prone nations, approved…

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#NASA extracts breathable oxygen from thin Martian air

#NASA extracts breathable oxygen from thin Martian air

“#NASA extracts breathable oxygen from thin Martian air” NASA has logged another extraterrestrial first on its latest mission to Mars: converting carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into pure, breathable oxygen, the US space agency said on Wednesday. The unprecedented extraction of oxygen, literally out of thin air on Mars, was achieved Tuesday by an…

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#NASA’s Ingenuity succeeds in historic flight over Mars’ surface

#NASA’s Ingenuity succeeds in historic flight over Mars’ surface

“#NASA’s Ingenuity succeeds in historic flight over Mars’ surface” NASA’s 4-pound Ingenuity helicopter made history early Monday — becoming the first powered, controlled aircraft to fly on another planet. Results rolled in shortly before 7 a.m., concluding that the experimental helicopter succeeded in its mission of rising 10 feet above the Martian surface, hovering in…

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#Mars Perseverance rover takes selfie with Ingenuity helicopter ahead of historic flight

#Mars Perseverance rover takes selfie with Ingenuity helicopter ahead of historic flight

“#Mars Perseverance rover takes selfie with Ingenuity helicopter ahead of historic flight” Enlarge Image NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took a selfie with the Ingenuity helicopter on April 6, 2021, using the WATSON (Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for Operations and eNgineering) camera located at the end of the rover’s long robotic arm. Perseverance’s selfie with Ingenuity…

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#NASA shares Mars rover’s first weather report

#NASA shares Mars rover’s first weather report

“#NASA shares Mars rover’s first weather report” The first weather forecast from Mars is in — it will be brutally cold with the chance of a dust storm. NASA scientists shared details of the meteorological outlook that was taken on the Red Planet by the Perseverance rover. The rover’s Mars Environment Dynamics Analyzer system first…

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