NASA Rhode Island Space Grant Consortium

NEXT WEEK: check out these exciting, afterschool Astrobiology workshops at Olneyville Library, Smith Hill Library, South Providence Library, Wanskuck Library and Washington Park Library! Presented by Professor Dawn Cardace and postgraduate student Jess Peluso of the Dept. of Geosciences at University of Rhode Island, these Astrobiology workshops will explore lava caves on Mars, life on Earth.. and maybe life on Mars, too! These workshops are suitable for children 6+ and also include a light meal. The workshops have been made possible thanks to the NASA Rhode Island Space Grant Consortium .

Showcasing research around the state at Salve Regina University.

A great weekend for our annual Spring Symposium!

🚀🚀Successo per la missione SBUDNIC! 🚀🚀

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NASA will hold a virtual media briefing next week to discuss upcoming activities for the agency’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter. The teams operating Ingenuity and NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover have chosen the flight zone where the helicopter will attempt the first powered, controlled flights on another planet. Details on this link https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-to-host-briefing-to-preview-first-mars-helicopter-flights

Perseverance has performed it's first drive on Mars!

From the wheel tracks, one can make out what the rover did. It drove forward a few meters, turned-in-place nearly 200 degrees then backwards roughly about a meter and a half. This is actually a very similar profile that Curiosity made during it's first drive on Mars back in August 2012.

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NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover will cache samples of Mars rocks & soil, for future NASA & ESA - European Space Agency partner missions to return to Earth. The Northrop Grumman Corporation will provide propulsion system components for the Mars Ascent Vehicle of the Mars Sample Return program: https://go.nasa.gov/3c0ZqNv

PERSEVERANCE 0004 ZLF-SECTION 2
GIGAmacro - https://viewer.gigamacro.com/view/7xW9VhinKXFhU3cs?x1=77978.00&y1=-3322.00&res1=81.23&rot1=0.00
Raw Images - https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/?order=sol+desc%2Cinstrument_sort+asc%2Csample_type_sort+asc%2C+date_taken+desc&per_page=50&page=0&mission=msl&begin_sol=0004&end_sol=0004
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