NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover

1404 readers

28 users here now

On the plains of Jezero, the secrets of Mars' past await us! Follow for the latest news, updates, pretty pics, and community discussion on NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's most ambitious mission to Mars!

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

148

Great News (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

3 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I saw a demonstration from some of the team members at the Wright memorial in North Carolina. Fascinating stuff. They actually had to build a wall out of computer fans to simulate the atmosphere on Mars. They don't actually get dust storms like in the movies.

Oh, and they put a small piece of cloth from one of the Wright Brothers wings on Perseverance.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Can you imagine how excited the wright brothers would have been to know that a piece of their plane was going to fly on Mars?