Martian - a small thought

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I probably have more in common with my martian neighbor than an Assamese Brahmin. (just a joke

This made me to watch the current developments which I forgot to watch for some months due to covid and now I thought of sharing this

Alabama High School Student Names NASA's Mars Helicopter – NASA Mars Exploration

Vaneeza Rupani's essay was chosen as the name for the small spacecraft, which will mark NASA's first attempt at powered flight on another planet.

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Follow NASA's Perseverance Rover in Real Time on Its Way to Mars – NASA Mars Exploration

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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NASA Rover Glimpses a Ghostly Martian Dust Devil Whirling Across The Red Planet

Mars may have only a thin atmosphere compared to other Solar System planets, but boy does it make the most of it.

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The moons of Mars are not quite like our Earth's Moon. Phobos, the larger of the two, is much closer to its planet; compared to the Moon's 27-day orbit, Phobos swings around Mars in line with the planet's equator thrice every Martian day (sol).

Something Strange Happens on Mars During a Solar Eclipse

The moons of Mars are not quite like our Earth's Moon.

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NASA conducts test drive on Mars-bound Perseverance rover’s twin — Optimism — on Earth

Optimism will share space in the Mars Yard with Maggie, the engineering model that stands in for NASA’s Curiosity rover.

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My Culture, My Voice – NASA Mars Exploration

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, Christina Hernandez, an instrument engineer on the Mars 2020 mission, talks about her childhood and journey to NASA.

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NASA's New Mars Rover Will Use X-Rays to Hunt Fossils – NASA Mars Exploration

PIXL, an instrument on the end of the Perseverance rover's arm, will search for chemical fingerprints left by ancient microbes.

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