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Leaving behind an old friend, and an era. #anthropomorphism
#Perseverance climbing the west Jezero Crater rim, almost 500 Martian sols ago.
#Ingenuity #MarsHelicopter #Perseverance #Mars2020 #Solarocks #space
@sharponlooker
It also mentions that they used images captured by #Ingenuity's RTE camera, and shows at least two of them.
Also, it feels good to see the names of people who do the actual scientific work that matters, and whom we know from day 1 of this mission. I'm sick and tired seeing assholes with chainsaws, nazi salutes and hyped BS about Mars, all the time.
Back then, some of us were competing on who will figure out first where the #MarsHelicopter had landed, by using the very first batch of images arriving from Mars to provide solid proof.
Here is one such proof of mine, superimposing one of #Ingenuity's landing images on an #MMGIS map based on #HiRISE images, for #Flight28 :
@aburka
YES they are. Here's a map showing the path of that flight. The rover had crossed that area about 3 weeks earlier:
#Ingenuity #MarsHelicopter #Mars2020 #Flight28 #NASA #Solarocks #Space
Just so that we don't forget little #MarsHelicopter #Ingenuity that's now retiring up at Valinor Hills, in the Neretva Vallis ancient riverbed, in NW Jezero crater.
180 processed and colorized HELI_NAV images, played at 5fps
RMC: 28.0001, Sol: 423
LMST: 11:52:43
UTC: 2022-04-29T07:42:09
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise
Des drones NASA testés dans le désert pour Mars : voler là-bas change tout, de l’exploration aux futures missions humaines. Ingenuity n’était qu’un début. https://www.futura-sciences.com/sciences/actualites/mars-ces-drones-nasa-entraine-desert-pourraient-changer-facon-explorer-mars-128356/ #Space #Science #Astrophysics #MarsExploration #NASA #Ingenuity
@sharponlooker
Some highlighted excerpts from the paper:
"Simulating Science Operations for a Joint Rover-helicopter Mission Architecture in a Mars Analog Setting"
PDF link:
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/PSJ/ade786/pdf
🎭🤖 BREAKING NEWS: #AI is not the fruit of #human ingenuity! Nope, it just strolled in #uninvited, like a stray cat that your tech-savvy uncle insists on calling "emergent technology." 😹 Because, who needs to credit human achievement when you can just say it "arrived" and call it a day? 🙄
https://andrewarrow.dev/2025/12/ai-was-not-invented-it-arrived/ #Emergence #Tech #Critique #Ingenuity #Tech #HackerNews #ngated
Show Yourselves Martians! – Pavel Klushantsev
ANNOTATION
This book provides an overview of the mysteries and explorations of Mars. The Red Planet has fascinated humanity since antiquity. The invention of the telescope only deepened its enigmas, particularly with the discovery of the so-called ‘canals.’ This led to the idea of Martians living on the planet in science fiction. But is there really life on Mars? Do Martians exist? What are the canals? To answer questions like these space probes from the USSR and USA started the exploration of Mars in the 1960s. Going to Mars is not straightforward and reaching Mars is an engineering and technological feat. Ever since then we have continued our explorations of the Red Planet. We now have sophisticated rovers on the surface of Mars and orbiters in orbit around Mars. In the last few decades our knowledge of Mars has improved in leaps and bounds with new discoveries shedding more and more light on the mysterious planets past and future. This volume presents an outline of these explorations, a journey that continues to advance the bounds of human knowledge with hopes that one day humans will inhabit Mars.
Drawings by V. Korolkov
Translated from the Spanish and Typset in Scribus by Damitr Mazanav
Released on the web by The Mir Titles Project in 2025
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Translators Note
One of the first books that I remember reading was All About the Telescope by Pavel Klushantsev translated to Marathi. The book got me fascinated about science in general and astronomy in particular.
So, when I saw this book by Klushantsev on Mars only available in Spanish, I could not resist from translating it. Though I started the work on this some years back, it was never completed for various reasons. One of them being the complex nature of typsetting in the book. So for this book I have used Scribus for typsetting and the results have been pleasing.
Since the book was written, our knowledge about Mars has increased by leaps and bounds. I have added an additional chapter in the book that summarises the various spacecraft since the 1990s that have taken our knowledge of Mars to the next level. The Martian surface has been revelead unprecendented detail with numerous rovers and orbiters around it. The attribution of images in the last section is provided with the images.
We now have active rovers on the surface of Mars and orbiters around it sending us vital information about the Red Planet. All this with hopes that humans would one day land there. It is to those future astronauts this translation and additional sections are dedicated.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
TRANSLATOR’S NOTE
THAT LITTLE STAR IS MARS! 1
THE MYSTERIES OF MARS 14
WHERE CAN YOU LIVE 22
UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENA OF MARS 32
WE MUST SOLVE THE MYSTERY OF “CANALS” 41
DO MARTIANS EXIST? 46
TRACES OF MARTIANS 56
ARE THE MARTIANS OUR ENEMIES 67
ARE MARTIANS OUR FRIENDS? 77
WE MUST FLY TO MARS 87
IS IT DIFFICULT TO REACH MARS 97
WHAT DID THE SPACE PROBES SEE FROM THEIR ORBIT 117
WATER! 129
THE SEARCH FOR LIFE ON MARS 136
IN THE FUTURE 152
FROM UNCERTAINTY TO DISCOVERY: MARS SINCE THE 1990s – Damitr Mazanav 163
#Ccbysa #Oer #ingenuity #ISRO #mangalyaan #marsExploration #marsExplorer #marsExpress #marsMission #marsProbes #martianProbes #mirTitlesProject #NASA #perseverance #sovietLiterature #spaceExploration #spaceTravel #ussr #viking
@PaulHammond51
🙂 Speaking of gathering moss, if this rover has any chance to gather some, that'll be during the next solar conjunction, on Jan 9, 2026. 🤓
Pity we can't see how #Ingenuity has fared so far, though I doubt there could be any moss gathering at that sandy beach resort with that continuous sandblasting in the Neretva Vallis canyon … 🙃
One of music’s best kept secrets celebrates 100 years, quietly – NPR
One of music’s best kept secrets celebrates 100 years, quietly
The story of Coolidge Auditorium, at the Library of Congress, is one of American ingenuity, cultural integrity and a century of free concerts.
October 25, 20258:18 AM ET, Heard on Weekend Edition Saturday
Tom Huizenga 6-Minute Listen Transcript
The Dalí Quartet, accompanied by Ricardo Morales on clarinet, performs during the Library of Congress’ Stradivari concert in Coolidge Auditorium in 2023. The Library was given a rare set of Stradivarius instruments in 1935.The year is 1925. The Great Gatsby is published, the jazz age is swinging, and on October 28th, a new concert hall opens at an unlikely spot — the Library of Congress, in Washington D.C. If only its cream-colored walls could talk. For 100 years, performers of all stripes have graced the Library stage, from classical music luminaries like Béla Bartók and Igor Stravinsky to Stevie Wonder, Audra McDonald and Max Roach. Today, it remains one of the capitol city’s most beautiful, best sounding and perhaps best kept secrets.
The idea for a concert hall at the Library of Congress did not stem from congress. It came from philanthropist Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge — and one bespoke piece of bipartisan legislation. “She was indefatigable and intrepid,” says Anne McLean, senior producer for concerts at the Library, “a remarkable woman, six feet tall, a brilliant pianist.” McLean is sitting with me on the stage, overlooking the empty auditorium. To mark the centennial, celebratory concerts and commissions have been heard in the hall all year. But not now. The government shutdown has forced the hall to close its doors, and unless a deal is reached before Tuesday, it’ll be closed on the anniversary itself.
Coolidge was born into a wealthy Chicago family in 1864. She studied music, traveled abroad, married a Harvard-trained orthopedic surgeon and, in 1924, came to Washington to establish a foothold in the nation’s capitol. She approached Carl Engel, the Library’s music chief, about the possibility of adding a small concert hall to the Library’s voluptuous — and voluminous — Thomas Jefferson building, designed after the Paris opera house and completed in 1897. You can’t see the hall from the outside, as it’s tucked inside the building’s Northwest Courtyard.
In 1924, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge wrote her first check to the Librarian of Congress, Herbert Putnam, to begin the construction of a new auditorium.Eager to get started, Coolidge wrote a check for $60,000 to the Librarian of Congress, Herbert Putnam, on Nov. 12, 1924. And yet there was no legal mechanism in place for a civilian to make such a monetary gift to the U.S. government. Congress worked quickly, taking only a little over a month to pass a bill allowing such a contribution.
It took less than six months to build the hall itself — the intimate, 485-seat Coolidge Auditorium, with its warm precise acoustics. “There are a lot of secrets to it,” McLean says. “The back wall of the auditorium is slightly shaved to be concave and extremely responsive to string sound. Underneath the stage is hollow. But that hollowness is a factor, as is the cork floor, which was very unusual for its time.” McLean says the sound blossoms in the hall. Keen to spread the sound far and wide, Coolidge even had the building wired for the relatively new medium of radio. She added to her initial sum to establish a fund for the commissioning of new music. Engel dubbed her “The Fairy-God-Mother of Music.”
Construction of Coolidge Auditorium, at the Library of Congress, began in May, 1925. It was finished in time for the very first concert on Oct. 28 of that year. Library of CongressCoolidge was well-connected and fiercely advocated for music. In 1944, she took to the local Washington airwaves with another bold idea. “I could wish for music, the same governmental protection that is given to hygiene, education or public welfare,” she said over WTOP. “How wonderful, if we could have in the cabinet, a secretary of fine arts.”
Coolidge never got her wish, but what she had already created was arguably more important — a living, breathing concert hall that serves as a cultural beacon — preserving history and cultivating new music through commissions.
The Martha Graham Dance Company performs the world premiere of Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring on the stage of the Coolidge Auditorium on Oct. 30, 1944. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation Collection / Library of CongressPerhaps the most famous commission became one of America’s most iconic pieces of music. Aaron Copland‘s ballet Appalachian Spring, written for dancer and choreographer Martha Graham, received its world premiere at Coolidge Auditorium on Oct. 30, 1944. “I think people knew what they were hearing,” McLean says. The ballet would win the Pulitzer prize for music the following year, along with the New York Music Critics Circle Award. It’s hard to imagine a full ballet produced on Coolidge’s modestly-sized stage.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: One of music’s best kept secrets celebrates 100 years, quietly : NPR
#100Years #AaronCopland #CoolidgeAuditorium #Culture #FreeConcerts #Ingenuity #LibraryOfCongress #MarthaGraham #Music #NationalPublicRadio #NPR #TomHuizenga #WeekendEdition
@sharponlooker
You drowned #Ingenuity?! 😧 🙃
#Ingenuity is a caricature of sunbathing.
A history of innovation:
#roman #ingenuity #technology #innovation #history
📜
The #Ingenuity #Mars #Helicopter was a small, experimental aircraft that was carried to Mars on the Perseverance rover.
It successfully completed the first powered, controlled flight on another planet on April 19, 2021, proving that aerial exploration is possible on Mars.
#PhotoOfTheDay: #Perseverance Selfie with #Ingenuity
On the Mars rover's mission Sol 46 or Earth date April 6, 2021, Perseverance held out a robotic arm to take its first selfie on Mars.
The WATSON camera at the end of the arm was designed to take close-ups of Martian rocks and surface details though, and not a quick snap shot of friends and smiling faces.
From the Wright brothers’ first flight to NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter on Mars, human flight has always pushed the boundaries of what’s possible.
🚀✨ As we map the skies of Earth and beyond, one question remains: will we grow wise enough here to make the stars a brighter future for generations to come?
🌌 Read more: https://authormulhall.com/first-mars-flight-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-legacy/
#Space #NASA #Mars #Ingenuity #Aerospace #Aviation #History #Future #Science #Exploration
From the Wright Brothers on Earth to NASA’s Ingenuity on Mars 🚀—every flight reshapes our future in aerospace, science, and exploration.
If we don’t learn from our mistakes on 🌍, do we risk holding back our journey to the ✨stars?
🔗 https://authormulhall.com/first-mars-flight-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-legacy/
#NASA #Mars #Ingenuity #SpaceExploration #Science #Physics #Future
#NSA and Others Provide Guidance to Counter #China State-Sponsored Actors Targeting #Critical #Infrastructure #Organizations
The "others" are less naive than us.. #stop #ingenuity..
