Tuesday, August 8, 2023

JPL News - Day in Review

Deep Space Comms Gets a Laser Boost | Mars is Spinning Faster | Ingenuity Flies Again 
 
Day in Review
Technology
The Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) flight transceiver is inside a large tube-like sunshade and telescope on the Psyche spacecraft
The agency is testing technologies in space and on the ground that could increase bandwidth to transmit more complex science data and even stream video from Mars. Read More
NASA's InSight lander took this final selfie on April 24, 2022. The lander is covered with far more dust than it was in its first selfie, taken in December 2018, or in its second selfie, taken in March and April of 2019.

Mars

Data sent by the spacecraft before it retired last December has provided new details about how fast the planet rotates and how much it wobbles. Read More
This view of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was generated using data collected by the Mastcam-Z instrument

Mars

The helicopter performed a short hop to help the team better understand why its previous flight was interrupted. Read More
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Scientist Pankaj

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