Friday, February 18, 2022

This Week, The Latest NASA / JPL Rover Passed A YEAR, On Mars...


A fun-filled Friday and weekend is ahead, with the shoveling done (again!). . . and core-sampling now back underway, on the Martian surface. . . .

We join the team at NASA in celebrating Perseverance's first Mars-iversary -- how can it have been a year, already, since we saw it first roll off the Barsoomian lander's platform, at the Octavia Butler landing base? In any event, here's the celebration stuff -- with school kids nation- -- and world-, wide:

. . .A key objective for Perseverance’s mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet’s geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and dust).

Subsequent NASA missions, in cooperation with ESA (European Space Agency), would send spacecraft to Mars to collect these sealed samples from the surface and return them to Earth for in-depth analysis. . . .


A flawlessly bright sunny white snowfield covers everything now, with about six inches. . . and, the world is truly lustrous, at these moments -- for me. Onward, grinning. . . .

नमस्ते

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