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April 30, 2020 Cuando se mudó a los Estados Unidos desde Colombia, la ingeniera de NASA-JPL Diana Trujillo no hablaba inglés. Pagó la universidad limpiando casas, aprendió inglés y ahora está ayudando a enviar el rover Perseverance al planeta Marte. TRANSCRIPT Nunca se me ocurrió en mi vida de que yo podría moverme de limpiar… Continue reading Behind the Spacecraft: De Columbia a Marte

April 30, 2020 When NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover starts its quest for compelling Martian rocks, it will have quite the to-do list: Locate, drill, collect, stash, and so much more. The robotic caching system that will get the job done is solid as a rock, thanks to NASA-JPL engineer Eric Aguilar and his team. TRANSCRIPT… Continue reading Behind the Spacecraft: Studying Martian Rocks Back on Earth

April 30, 2020 As a professional dancer in New York City, NASA-JPL engineer Heather Bottom never forgot her passion for space. Now in Act II of her career, Heather is preparing to send NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover to the surface of the Red Planet. TRANSCRIPT How does it feel? It feels great. Hi my name… Continue reading Behind the Spacecraft: From Rockettes to Rockets

April 30, 2020 From launch to the journey to Mars to atmospheric entry to surviving on the Martian surface, NASA’s Perseverance rover will have to endure a lot of extreme environments on its way to the Red Planet. But before this spacecraft experiences the real deal, we need to test all of these conditions on… Continue reading Behind the Spacecraft: Testing Hardware on Earth for a Journey to Mars

April 30, 2020 When NASA’s Perseverance rover travels to Mars to search for signs of life, it’s important that the spacecraft doesn’t bring along any Earth bacteria. That’s why NASA-JPL scientist Moogega Stricker is ensuring that the Mars rover is free and clear of microbial stowaways. So if we ever do find life on Mars,… Continue reading Behind the Spacecraft: Protecting Mars from Earth Bacteria

April 30, 2020 When the NASA Perseverance Mars rover lands on the Red Planet, it will be caching rock samples for a future mission to collect and return to Earth. For Mars 2020 Deputy Project Scientist at NASA-JPL Katie Stack Morgan, studying rocks is not only important in the search for ancient life, but it’s… Continue reading Behind the Spacecraft: Seeking Signs of Life in Ancient Martian Rocks

May 18, 2020 This video highlights some of the tests NASA’s Perseverance rover completed between September and December 2019 at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.

June 19, 2020 NASA is inviting the public to help get ready for the upcoming launch of the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover by joining a global, collective #CountdownToMars. Fans are asked to record video of their creative countdowns to liftoff, then share and tag them on social media with #CountdownToMars. Favorites may be featured on… Continue reading Send NASA Your #CountdownToMars

July 14, 2020 NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter will make history’s first attempt at powered flight on another planet next spring. It is riding with the agency’s next mission to Mars (the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover) as it launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station later this summer.  Perseverance, with Ingenuity attached to its belly, will… Continue reading NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter: The First Aircraft on Mars

July 22, 2020 In February 2020, NASA’s Perseverance Rover began its long journey to Mars by first traveling across the United States. The rover was built at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, and then carefully packed and flown to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. There, engineers integrated the rover with… Continue reading Getting Perseverance to the Launch Pad