At Long Last, Perseverance Reaches Three Forks River Delta

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By Jessica Hall on April 21, 2022 at 2:18 pm



After more than a year mapping the surface of Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover has finally reached the ancient Martian river delta it was built to explore.

Perseverance and its companion space helicopter, Ingenuity, landed in Mars’ Jezero Crater in February of 2021. Since then, the rover has carefully picked its way around the rim of Jezero, scooping up samples and mapping its surroundings as it goes. Perseverance and Ingenuity have spent their time making parallel progress on their directives. Ingenuity even makes its own scientific sorties away from the rover. But Perseverance is drawing near its target.

The rover’s “Delta Front Campaign” is its second sortie, and the mission began this week. Among other scientific goals, NASA is using this campaign to scope out the best route to ascend the Three Forks river delta.

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/334361-at-long-last-perseverance-reaches-three-forks-river-delta

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1. There are are now two different types space programs.

One is for vanity, funded by tax avoidance, in hopes of profit. The other is publicly funded, and is for broadening human knowledge, and achieving goals for all of mankind’s ambition’s.

We really need to focus tax reform, and dark money.

[Hortensis]

2. Go, Perseverance ! A couple days ago humanity watched a solar eclipse

by Phobos from Mars. We live in amazing times.