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May 19, 2021 9 tweets 2 min read
Hello everyone. Just another reminder that the Perseverance Rover is sending back amazing pictures from Mars every single day. Look at this one!
📷: NASA Perseverance has already been astonishingly successful and there’s lots more to come (oh go on, have another, this time showing the Ingenuity helicopter making the first power flight on the red planet).
📷: NASA
May 28, 2020 9 tweets 7 min read
Is your computer taking too long to process data? Spare a thought for the team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory back in 1965, waiting for their computers to process the first closeup images of Mars taken by Mariner 4. Their solution - colour by numbers! #tbt #AstronoMay (1/9) On July 15 1965, Mariner 4 obtained the first closeup images of Mars and stored them in its onboard tape recorder. Over the course of three weeks, the data acquired during the flyby was transmitted back to the Earth. #AstronoMay #MuseumFromHome #sciencefromhome (2/9)