NASA has set up its own Twitter account on Twitter, writing posts on it in the first person, as if it were written by a robotic vehicle from Mars.
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“The first pictures show a sample from the sample. The photos I took are inconclusive due to the bad light. When the lighting conditions are better, I will take more photos to confirm that we have an intact sample in the tube, “NASA first wrote in the second half of last week. She also published two photographs of the sample tube with the text.
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And on Sunday, September 5, the successful collection was confirmed, with the container now being sealed with the sample to be transported to Earth in the future.
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“We have a sample! I’ve never been happier to see a hole in a rock, “wrote Adam Steltzner, the project’s chief engineer, on Twitter a few days ago, before the official confirmation.
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NASA wants to use a robotic rover to obtain about 35 such samples. Therefore, subscriptions will continue in other places.
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The first sampling at the beginning of August failed due to the great fineness of the material.
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Perseverance’s mission includes searching for signs of possible past – not present – life on Mars, collecting data on the planet’s climate and geology, and collecting rock and dust samples.
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Thirteen Ingenuity flights
Perseverance landed on Mars on February 18 with an Ingenuity helicopter in its bowels. The small drone-sized helicopter has its own program. It is not equipped with scientific instruments and its only task is to test the possibility of using similar flying devices in the future when examining the surface of extraterrestrial bodies.
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The machine exceeded the expectations of experts and has already completed 13 successful flights in the atmosphere of the red planet, during which, among other things, it took a number of shots of the terrain from the air. The images are also used by scientists when planning the Perseverance route.
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Today (from 02:04 to 02:07 CEST), the Ingenuity helicopter performed its 13th flight in the atmosphere of Mars. At a height of 8 meters, at a speed of 3.3 m / s, he set off 105 meters NE above selected formations in the South Séítah area. He returned the same way and flew 210 meters after 161 seconds of flight. pic.twitter.com/NBZEPs18cD
– Michal Vaclavik (@Kosmo_Michal) September 5, 2021
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“At an altitude of eight meters, at a speed of 3.3 m / s, he set off 105 meters NE above selected formations in the South Séítah area. He returned the same way and flew 210 meters after 161 seconds of flight, “described the 13th flight of the Ingenuity, which took place on Sunday, a space specialist Michal Václavík from the Czech Space Office.
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