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Cold and alone
About 270 million miles from Earth, NASA’s helicopter Ingenuity spent its first night alone on the surface of Mars last night.
In a few days, it will take its first flight and change the way Mars will be explored forever.
The rovers have been spectacular, but with flight, scientists will someday be able to go place where ground-based rovers just can’t get to.
Ingenuity is just a limited capability "proof of concept" helicopter and wont actually be doing any real science itself, but like the Wright Brothers here on Earth 117 years ago, this first Mars based flying machine is just the beginning.
True amazing and it just goes to show what human beings are capable of doing when we put our minds and efforts together.
This mission and the mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna are all the results of years of effort, research and testing by amazing human scientists and engineers.
Proof that many things that were just science fiction a decade or two ago are still possible.
We took a very dark turn a few years back, but I hope we are getting back on to a better course again and we can look forward to a better and better world in the future.
PS I totally realize we have many big problems to address, but being on a better course was our only hope at ever addressing and solving them.
Stay safe and be well, a new spring is coming.
Cold and alone
About 270 million miles from Earth, NASA’s helicopter Ingenuity spent its first night alone on the surface of Mars last night.
In a few days, it will take its first flight and change the way Mars will be explored forever.
The rovers have been spectacular, but with flight, scientists will someday be able to go place where ground-based rovers just can’t get to.
Ingenuity is just a limited capability "proof of concept" helicopter and wont actually be doing any real science itself, but like the Wright Brothers here on Earth 117 years ago, this first Mars based flying machine is just the beginning.
True amazing and it just goes to show what human beings are capable of doing when we put our minds and efforts together.
This mission and the mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna are all the results of years of effort, research and testing by amazing human scientists and engineers.
Proof that many things that were just science fiction a decade or two ago are still possible.
We took a very dark turn a few years back, but I hope we are getting back on to a better course again and we can look forward to a better and better world in the future.
PS I totally realize we have many big problems to address, but being on a better course was our only hope at ever addressing and solving them.
Stay safe and be well, a new spring is coming.