(This July 30 story is renewed to load the main points on NASA’s previous landing vehicles and landing vehicles)
By Joey Roulette
(Reuters) – NASA’s next-generation Mars Marse rover took off Thursday from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on an Atlas 5 rocket as a component of a $2.4 billion project to search for life lines beyond Earth’s planetary neighbor.
The next-generation robot robot robot, a six-wheeled vehicle long by a car carrying seven clinical tools, is also expected to deploy a mini helicopter to Mars and check the devices for long-lasting human journeys to the fourth planet of the sun. Its arrival on Mars is scheduled for February 18 at the height of an ancient river delta.
It flew into the skies from Cape Canaveral Air Force Base in Florida at 07.50 EDT (11.50 GMT) in clear, sunny and warm situations carried by an Atlas five rocket from the Boeing-Lockheed United Launch Alliance. The launch came after the installation of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, where the project engineers were located, shaken by an earthquake.
“The spacecraft is healthy and on its way to Mars,” NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine wrote on Twitter.
The launch is not done without a small challenge. In the first few hours after takeoff, the recovery of the exact location of the spacecraft and positioning knowledge were hampered by a brief “communication challenge,” NASA officials, who involved the agency’s global antenna network used to talk to its maximum remote probes, said. The challenge was temporarily resolved.
This marks NASA’s ninth voyage to the Martian surface.
“Actually, it’s kind of a key to a lot of new studies that we’re doing that focus on the subject … is there life there?” said the head of the area agency’s science department, Thomas Zurbuchen, in a live NASA broadcast after launch.
The director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mike Watkins, joked about the California earthquake: “Earth is excited to go to Mars. It’s a very small event. Everything’s fine and we’re on our way to Mars.”
Perseverance is due to the landing at the foot of a 250-meter-deep crater called Jezero, from an ancient lake and water formula 3.5 billion years ago that scientists suspect can only provide evidence of microbial life beyond possible.
Scientists have long wondered whether Mars, once a much more hospitable position than it is today, has ever harbored life. Water is a key element in life, and billions of years ago, Mars had many on the surface before the planet became a desolate and hard outpost.
It is Earth’s third launch to Mars this month, after probes sent through the United Arab Emirates and China.
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence wrote on Twitter: “Today is a day for American leadership in space!”
HELICOPTER ENGINEERING
On board Perseverance is a four-pound (1.8 kg) autonomous helicopter called Ingenuity due to a control flight on Mars. The thin Martian environment, 99% less dense than Earth’s, poses a challenge to ingenuity, which was designed to be light, with larger rotor blades and spinning faster than required for a helicopter of its mass on Earth.
Since the landing of the first Martian Rover Sojourner in 1997, NASA has sent 3 more – Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity – who have explored the geology of the Martian plains and detected symptoms of aquatic formations beyond. NASA has also effectively shipped airstrips: Viking 1 and 2, Pathfinder, Phoenix and InSight.
The United States plans to send astronauts to Mars in the 2030s as a component of a program that plans to use a return to the moon as a test platform for human missions before embarking on the adventure to Mars with a more ambitious crew.
Perseverance will conduct an experiment to turn elements of the carbon dioxide-rich environment into a long-range rocket propellant introduced from the Martian surface, or to produce breathable oxygen for long-haul astronauts. Perseverance will also collect and buy samples of rocks and soils to be returned to Earth in the long run.
(Reporting through Joey Roulette in Washington; edited through Will Dunham)
A Democratic Party assembly that leaders hoped would allocate unity weeks before the national conference erupted in a behind-the-scenes dispute over corporate money in politics. In a virtual assembly of a key Democratic National Convention committee, allied members of Bernie Sanders said Joe Biden’s nominees called them “children” and made other rude comments in a meeting room where they spoke privately. The plot recalled the still dormant tensions beneath the boundary and progressive tensions as the party seeks a united front opposite President Donald Trump.
Because science indicates that crowds are exacerbating the spread of the coronavirus, Jordan asked the Fauci on Friday whether the government “deserves to restrict the protests.” “I’m not in a position to do what the government deserves to do aggressively,” Fauci replied. Jordan therefore continued to insist, “The government is preventing others from going to church,” claiming that this is something the “five liberals” of the Supreme Court had decided.
Two pilots were killed thursday when their tanker trucks collided in the air while helping to fight a giant wildfire in southern Nevada, federal officials said. The U.S. Bureau of Land Administration reported in a statement that the deceased were “contracted pilots.” “Recovery operations are underway recently and initial notifications are still ongoing,” he said.
A Tennessee state senator has been accused of stealing more than $600,000 earned from the federal budget of a fitness utilities company she ran and the cash to pay for her wedding and other non-public expenses, federal tax Wednesday said. An unsealed offender’s complaint Wednesday accuses Senator Katrina Robinson of theft and embezzlement involving government systems and electronic fraud, Federal Prosecutor D. Michael Dunavant said in a press release. Robinson, a Democrat elected to the General Assembly in 2018 in a Memphis district, is also the director of the Institute of Health, which provides education for fitness jobs, prosecutors said.
Video: ”She’s gone’: Breonna Taylor remembered The ‘good girl’ of Jan Waddell, another defense attorney who is black and also concerned about the police, also said that Mattingly and Cosgrove were probably immune to prosecution because Kentucky law allowed it. them to retaliate. in self-defense when Mattingly was shot in the leg through Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, who said he did not know the intruders were police officers and that he had an idea that the couple were being robbed. The likely endless list of unarmed black men who have received and continue to be shot through white police officers…
A primary general in the South Korean army was relieved of his command Friday after the army was unable to prevent him from illegally diserating a guy to the north, authorities said. The departure of the type was only revealed when Pyongyang, who insists that there have been no cases of coronavirus, announced over the weekend that a “fugitive” who had returned through the heavily fortified demilitarized zone suspected of having the disease. South-north defects are incredibly rare and double in the DMZ, which divides the peninsula and is one of the safest borders in the world.
In May 2020, Crew Dragon became the first spacecraft to release humans from American soil in nine years. Built through Elon Musk’s SpaceX, it is a component of NASA’s plan to sell flights from the area station to personal companies. Elon Musk says manned air flight has been the basic purpose of its pioneering company SpaceX.
The epicenter of the U.S. coronavirus pandemic showed signs of shifting into the Midwest on Thursday, while Sunbelt states expected new infections and deaths to begin to subside. The COVID-19 outbreak was moving to Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska “due to vacation and other reasons,” Dr. Deborah Birx, coordinator of the White House Coronavirus Working Group, told Fox News in an interview. The Ohio Department of Health said the state had noticed its biggest buildup of infections in a day since the pandemic began in January, which Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, said at a news convention “certainly wasn’t good news.”
Claudia Conway, Kellyanne and George Conway’s 15-year-old daughter, returned to Twitter Wednesday, with heavy blows against Trump, forcing her to vote and jokingly asking Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to adopt him. In a series of tweets since he said he had his phone, he has taken violent blows against President Donald Trump, for whom his mother works as senior adviser.
Reuters The U.S. State Department has sanctioned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s eldest son, Hafez, to prevent him from running on behalf of his father. A total of 14 Syrian regime officials were sanctioned through the U.S. State Department. In the sanctions circular under the Caesar Act, which was passed in June. The sanctions have been named Hama and Maarat Al-Numan in honor of the victims lost during the siege of Hama city in 2011 and the 2019 bombing of a bustling Maarat Al-Numan market that killed 42 Syrians.
The statement: Presidential candidate Joe Biden kneels on the street when he saw an American flag A Facebook message with a photo of former Vice President Joe Biden kneeling at his years-long house of training in Scranton, Pennsylvania, went viral for claiming he knelt because he saw a fence on the American flag. The message legend reads: “Joe Biden kneels after seeing an American flag near the home of his training years in Pennsylvania. The poster, Renee Hudson Perfect, also added this comment to the post: “And he needs to be president of this wonderful country?
Toy maker Mattel has unveiled a new collection of politically active Barbie dolls, adding a black woman running for president and her crusade team made up exclusively of women, to motivate women to fill leadership positions. To complete the set in four parts, a crusade manager, a fundraiser and a voter, the latter is offending Donald Trump Jr., who tried to make a joke about the doll on Twitter. “Barbie is not and has never been affiliated with a political party,” a representative of Mattel to the Los Angeles Times said on Thursday.
Officials who consulted with M fauci at a contentious hearing in the House stated that the United States was still unable to provide all the effects of COVID-19 control within two to three days, and jointly asked Americans to follow fundamental precautions such as wearing masks, avoiding crowds and washing. hands often. These undeniable steps may be offering “the same price for cash as if we had just closed the entire economy,” said a frustrated director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, adding that he had studies on it. he said he was “cautiously confident that we will have a vaccine until the end of this year and as 2021 approaches.”
Police and dead dogs are found at the scene in a garden in Hanover, Germany, where a secret basement sealed in search of the British Madeleine McCann has just been unearthed. The basement was once under a lawn shed in an asset where the German pedophile Christian Brueckner, the last suspect in the case of the missing youth, lived. The hangar was demolished years ago, but the neighbors said Brueckner had spent hours inside.
A car burglary suspect in the past shot three Chicago police officers while trying to escort him into custody Thursday morning, the government said. The gunman was pulled from a patrol van and entered the police station on the northwest side around 9:30 a.m. when he opened fire and hit the officers. It was not clear without delay whether the suspect had used his own weapon or whether he had taken a gun from one of the officers.
Although nothing has been destroyed, the United States has been complaining for more than a year about Russia’s use of a new maneuverable class of “inspector” satellites that can spy on US satellites and can be used simply as weapons. The Russians, for their part, argue that the United States has developed elaborate ground cannons capable of attacking an adversary’s wartime satellite network. Obviously, both sides agree that it is the best time to go down and at least start a verbal exchange about it.
On Friday, a Dutch court questioned the independence of Poland’s legal formula in a request for a ruling through the EU’s highest court on the imaginable extradition of an alleged Polish drug dealer. The Polish rule of law has become an increasingly debatable factor within the EU, as critics say the ruling nationalist government has undue influence over judicial appointments. The International Chamber of the District Court in Amsterdam said that it did not believe that the Polish courts were independent of the government and that they would not extradite the suspect until the EU Court of Justice told them.
Democrats on Thursday rejected a short-term extension of $600 a week to gain proposed unemployment benefits through the White House.
A senior Michigan official warned Wednesday that unless the Republican-controlled state legislature passes a law to expedite the publication of election results, he would be guilty of a chaotic and destabilizing election this fall. “The continuing inaction of lawmakers, at a time when we want their association and theirs more than ever, will amount to an abandonment of duty,” Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said in a conference call with reporters. Benson, a Democrat, is the state’s top high-ranking election official.
An official of the Federal Maritime Commission recommends amending agency regulations for cruise lines regarding their reimbursement policies. On Monday, CMF Commissioner Louis E. Sola issued an interim report with recommendations for creating a uniform for passengers to see how to get a refund. Our research revealed that, for the most part, consumers are happy with the responses they have obtained from VOOs (passenger boat operators or cruise lines) regarding cancelled cruises because sailboats (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) were not ordered.” Sola said in an FMC press release.