Mars rover sends home movie of daredevil descent to landing on red planet
Los Angeles, USReuters NASA scientists on Monday unveiled first-of-a-kind home movies of last week’s’ daredevil Mars rover landing, vividly showing its supersonic parachute inflation over the red planet and a rocket-powered hovercraft lowering the science lab on wheels to the surface. The footage was recorded on Thursday by a series of cameras mounted at different […]
KNOW IT ALL: THE OPPORTUNITY ROVER
News last week that NASA’s Opportunity rover was finally confirmed dead, 15 years after it landed on Mars. DAVID ADAMS looks at some facts and figures about its journey out of this world…