Mars 2020 Missions
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namloc1980 wrote: »Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took pictures of the Chinese landing site on the 6th June which shows the rover is off the lander and has moved a bit to the south of it so it appears to be alive.
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Even on Mars the US are keeping an eye on China's tech from orbit
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Well, finally after three weeks of the world hearing nothing, the Chinese have released more images from their Zhurong lander/rover, including a full colour panorama of the Utopia Planitia landing site and a really cool shot of both the rover and lander in the one pic.
Hopefully going forward the Chinese will be more forthcoming in releasing images and data.
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Ingenuity Mars mini-chopper completes its 13th flight successfully.
The helicopter has now greatly surpassed all of its initial planned flight demonstrations - and since flight #8 is now acting as a scout for its mothership, the Mars Perseverance Rover.
Article about the latest Ingenuity flight here:
In other news, Perseverance has now successfully drilled and cached its first core sample from its exploration zone after an initial failed attempt.
Over at Utopia Planitia, the Chinese Mars Zhurong rover has travelled over 1 kilometre from its initial landing site, inspected the backshell and parachute landing hardware - and will explore a series of dunes and adjacent rocks but will first be placed in hibernation over the coming 6 weeks to prepare for a communications blackout between Earth and Mars due to interference from solar particles during solar conjunction.
Zhurong has successfully completed its primary mission of 100 days on Mars and returned this spectacular panorama to mark the event.
Article on the latest news from Zhurong here:
So all in all, it looks like things are going very well for both Perseverance and Zhurong. 😊
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Ingenuity aces its 20th flight in Mars, this time traveling over 390 metres to reach a point close to its original starting point, the Wright Brothers airfield.
Link below:
The plan is now for Ingenuity to scout and track Perseverance as it returns close to its original Octavia E. Butler landing site and take a new route North and then West towards the ancient river delta at Jezero Crater.
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And Ingenuity just keeps going, for a tech demonstration mission where the designers weren't even sure it would fly on Mars at all!
Flight 21 completed, 370 metres distance flown, making a total distance of about 4.6 kilometres (2.85 miles) flown by Ingenuity to date. 😊🚁
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Sol 408 and Perseverance is fast approaching the edge of the ancient river delta at Jezero.
Meanwhile, the Ingenuity helicopter has made its 25th flight on the red planet flying a record 704 metres in one go, taking a shortcut over the Seitah region but avoiding flying directly over the backshell, parachute and skycrane of Perseverance in case these objects interfered with its navigation system.
Impressive new panorama today from Perseverance
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A January 2023 update on the various Mars surface missions:-
Perseverance rover is going great, it has now dropped a number of rock sample tubes around its current position at the foot of the ancient river delta at Jezero Crater before it begins its ascent of the delta structure in its search of signs of ancient life on the red planet.
Its sidekick that has stolen a lot of Percy’s thunder, the little Ingenuity Mars helicopter, has now made an amazing 39 flights over the surface of Mars at Jezero Crater since its maiden test flight in April 2021, clocking up an impressive 7.9 kilometres distance in flight - and with new software installed and tested in the past few flights near the foot of the ancient river delta, Ingenuity is now ready to make more challenging sorties scouting out the river delta structure as the Perseverance rover ascends the delta from the crater floor.
Recent flight image taken by Ingenuity helicopter
Sadly, the stationery lander mission Insight on Elysium Planitia has now come to an end operating on Mars after an extremely successful 4 year mission detecting over 1,400 seismic events/Marsquakes during its operation. Dust had accumulated on Insight’s solar panels to such an extent that its power was dropping significantly during 2022 and its final transmission to Earth was in mid December 2022. It has left a treasure trove of detailed seismic data that planetary scientists will spend years analysing.
Also not heard from lately is the Chinese Mars Zhurong lander at Utopia Planitia. Like Insight and the earlier Mars rovers, Zhurong relies on its solar panels for power and it is thought that, during its hibernation period in late 2022, that dust accumulation on the panels may have silenced the rover, but the Chinese are remaining tight-lipped to date and may be continuing efforts to contact their rover.
NASA’s Curiosity rover continues to climb high on Mount Sharp at Gale Crater, now in its 12th year of operation! 😊👍👍
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Ingenuity has Flight # 47 in the bag! 🚁
Both the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity are making tremendous progress climbing up the ancient river delta, now 110 meters above the elevation of their February 2021 landing site.
Ingenuity is also now again scouting the terrain ahead of the rover, as it had been doing in 2022.
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