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Month: July 2017

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July 25, 2017 Philip Sams

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  • NASA's Perseverance Rover Bringing 3D-Printed Metal Parts to Mars
    For hobbyists and makers, 3D printing expands creative possibilities; for specialized engineers, it's also key to next-generation spacecraft design.
  • NASA InSight's 'Mole' Is Out of Sight
    Now that the heat probe is just below the Martian surface, InSight's arm will scoop some additional soil on top to help it keep digging so it can take Mars' temperature.
  • NASA's Perseverance Rover Will Peer Beneath Mars' Surface
    The agency's newest rover will use the first ground-penetrating radar instrument on the Martian surface to help search for signs of past microbial life.
  • AI Is Helping Scientists Discover Fresh Craters on Mars
    It's the first time machine learning has been used to find previously unknown craters on the Red Planet.
  • NASA's New Mars Rover Is Ready for Space Lasers
    Perseverance is one of a few Mars spacecraft carrying laser retroreflectors. The devices could provide new science and safer Mars landings in the future.
  • NASA's New Mars Rover Will Use X-Rays to Hunt Fossils
    PIXL, an instrument on the end of the Perseverance rover's arm, will search for chemical fingerprints left by ancient microbes.
  • My Culture, My Voice
    In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, Christina Hernandez, an instrument engineer on the Mars 2020 mission, talks about her childhood and journey to NASA.
  • NASA Readies Perseverance Mars Rover's Earthly Twin
    Did you know NASA's next Mars rover has a nearly identical sibling on Earth for testing? Even better, it's about to roll for the first time through a replica Martian landscape.
  • NASA Engineers Checking InSight's Weather Sensors
    An electronics issue is suspected to be preventing the sensors from sharing their data about Mars weather with the spacecraft.
  • Follow NASA's Perseverance Rover in Real Time on Its Way to Mars
    A crisply rendered web application can show you where the agency's Mars 2020 mission is right now as it makes its way to the Red Planet for a Feb. 18, 2021, landing.
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