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After Ingenuity: Bigger, Bolder Aircraft for Exploring Aliens Worlds
The little helicopter touched down with the Perseverance rover in 2021. On January 25, NASA announced that the flying vehicle had to perform an emergency landing which damaged one of its rotors and ended its mission. This reminds us that space exploration is still difficult to do. But Ingenuity’s three years on Mars proved that…
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Lifespans of Rivers Revealed on Titan and Ancient Mars
Mars and Saturn’s moon Titan are of a shared scientific interest: the two worlds boast river channels similar to those on our own planet. Though Mars’ water networks dried up long ago, Titan’s liquid methane and ethane rivers are still coursing on the moon’s surface today. Both kinds are of scientific interest because they could…
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NASA Reveals Its Plan for First Helicopter Flight on Mars
So far, human exploration on Mars has been measured in the circular motion of orbiters above the planet and the meandering trails of rovers on the ground below. Early next month, NASA will enter the elusive space between those two realms, with the launch of the box-shaped helicopter Ingenuity.
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Here’s The Letter 1400 Google Workers Sent Leadership In Protest Of Censored Search Engine For China
Following similar action against secretive AI drone imaging program for the US military, Project Maven, Googlers are once again organising internally to push back against their leadership — this time around a project dubbed Dragonfly, the proposed search product the company intends to build for the Chinese market in accordance with government-mandated censorship.