2021/04/24 – EM Imaging Team – Flying on Mars … er, what about The Atmosphere?!

Guest Page Fast links to Items:  Richard – Ron – Timothy – Andrew – Ruggero Fast links to Bios: Timothy – Ron – Andrew – Ruggero – Keith For the past several weeks, we have been exploring, in successive shows, remarkable new images returned from Mars by NASA’s latest surface mission — the “Perseverance” rover — with increasingly astonishing results. For the evidence has now become scientifically overwhelming: “Percy” landed in place called “Jezero Crater” … and has returned a variety of evidence that Jezero once was covered by “an ancient, 7-mile-high, 30-mile wide–“ GLASS dome!” But, there is more …. This past week, NASA finally flew its much touted “piggybacked Percy helicopter experiment” on Mars — called “Ingenuity” — TWICE successfully flying the diminutive little robot autonomously from the surface of Jezero … and in so doing, providing further scientific evidence that the current atmosphere of Mars — contrary to [...]