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Martian Memories

Special-Effects Spirit Silhouetted on "Jibsheet"

Created using a photorealistic model of the rover and a false-color mosaic captured at sunset by its panoramic camera on May 19, 2005 (Sol 489). Credit: NASA/JPL-Solar System Visualization Team

📷 https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia03232-special-effects-spirit-silhouetted-on-jibsheet/

A synthetic image of the Spirit Mars Exploration Rover sitting on top of a rock called "Jibsheet" and contemplating a Martian sunset.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Makes History With Closest Pass to

“Operations teams have confirmed NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024.

Breaking its previous record by flying just 3.8 million miles above the surface of the Sun, ’s hurtled through the solar atmosphere at a blazing 430,000 miles per hour — faster than any human-made object has ever moved

A beacon tone received late on Dec. 26 confirmed the spacecraft had made it through the encounter safely and is operating normally.”


https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasas-parker-solar-probe-makes-history-with-closest-pass-to-sun/

Text Shot: "Flying this close to the Sun is a historic moment in humanity’s first mission to a star,” said Nicky Fox, who leads the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “By studying the Sun up close, we can better understand its impacts throughout our solar system, including on the technology we use daily on Earth and in space, as well as learn about the workings of stars across the universe to aid in our search for habitable worlds beyond our home planet.”