Mars Rover follow up
Everything has gone as planned. On Thursday 18th Feb 2021. The NASA Perseverance Rover, will touched down on Mars safely and sent its first signal and images back to Earth.
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Mars Rover
The Mars Perseverance rover should touchdown on Mars today. This is the latest NASA mission to the red planet.
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Ethics and space exploration
As humans start to venture back in to space with the view of returning to the Moon in 2024, then eventually moving on to Mars and beyond.
This paper [1] written Frank Tavars (from NASAs Ames Research Centre,) et al, raises some very interesting ideas on how we should about space exploration, but don't repeat our colonial mistakes we made on Earth.
Link [2] is the same link but using the paper code and the citation guide is below that.
Hopefully discussion and lead to some really useful feed back for NASA so as a human race we can move forward and explore space responsibly.
1 Ethical Exploration and the Role of Planetary Protection in Disrupting Colonial Practices
2 https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.08344
arXiv:2010.08344 [astro-ph.IM]
(or arXiv:2010.08344v2 [astro-ph.IM] for this version)
I have also set up a Qoto Discourse Thread to discuss further.
Thanks to Derek Caelin for posting a link to this to both Mastodon and Twitter.
Also included a link to the Mumbai university astrobiology course as there is discussion on * Space Policy and Planetary Protection* which may be interesting.
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SpaceX Launch
Less than 1 hour till the next Falcon 9 Launch. (15:00 UK time)
Thanks to Mastodon News Bot for posting
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Astrobiology course 5
So moving on in from the previous post the next lecture in the Astrobiology course is on Space Missions in the Search for Life
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The search for life on Mars
One of the advantages of being a higher education student or in my case alumni is you get to join groups. I have just been watching a live webcast on the experiments that are being used onboard Mars rovers to look for possible indicators that Mars once supported life.
Exploring the Habitability of Mars with the Curiosity and Rosalind Franklin rovers and Orbital Missions
I am not sure if there is a recording of this going up, but the link to a some more information is here.
I am currently undertaking Particle Physics but there is also a really interesting series of lecutures on AstroBiology I want to check out too.
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OSIRIS-REx mission
Yesterday, there was an update to the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission to collect and return a sample of dust from an asteroid.
This post was prompted by a BBC Science news report. The NASA mission page can also be found here.
Mission should return to earth in 2023.
Hopefully the sample collection went as planned.
Update 21/10/2020
Mission on the way back, sample collections went successfully, should return largest sample from a foreign body since Apollo.
Follow @OSIRISREx for updates.
Discussion
Feel free to start a thread on Science Forums to discuss further.
Mars Perseverance Rover
The Mars Perseverance Rover launched today in the Atlas V rocket, as planned. You can read more about this on the NASA mission page.
Should arrive on Mars in early 2021
Feel free to discuss further on the QOTO Discourse forum.*
Hubble – Eye in the Sky part 3
Part 3 of the NASA Mission Operations – Hubble Video Miniseries is released today.
The series so far, has been really interesting and each episode is roughly 10 minutes in length, so could make an ideal teaching resource too.
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Hubble – Eye in the Sky – Mini Series
Yesterday (15/7/2020) NASA started a 3 part mini series on the Hubble space telescope.
Schedule as follows
Should make an interesting series.
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