History has been made! Ingenuity becomes the first helicopter to fly on another planet.
We’ve created oxygen on Mars
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With Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment, also known as MOXIE, the high-tech instrument converts carbon dioxide in the Mars atmosphere and convert it into oxygen.
It’s been a busy week!
🚀 Samples of a 4.5-billion-year asteroid head to Earth on our #OSIRISRex mission.
🔭 NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope checks off a key prelaunch milestone.
⛈️ Scientists develop a way to view satellite data in 3D to gain a better understanding of severe weather.
Watch This Week at NASA for details on these stories and more: youtu.be/mplLzUMYKuM
China’s Mars rover lands on red planet
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China’s Mars rover Zhu Rong successfully landed on the red planet after “nine minutes of terror”.
Read the full report: https://sc.mp/504e
A Nature Methods paper reports DANNCE, which enables robust 3D tracking of animals’ limbs and other features in naturalistic environments by making use of a deep learning approach that incorporates geometric reasoning. Read the paper: https://go.nature.com/3gsk39b
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Roxo™, the FedEx SameDay Bot is another step closer to being delivery-ready! Meet some of the brilliant team members behind the development of our first autonomous delivery bot.
Basketball Playing Robot
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Kirigami shoe grippers
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The U.S. Army teased footage of its new night-vision goggles — and it’s straight out of an RPG video game. This is the first-person POV of a soldier participating in a live training exercise.