#Ingenuity flew at its record speed of 5.5m/s for a little more than a minute (66s) and covered 179m on the ground. It is now ~700m ESE from the rover and anticipated to stay in LOS for the next period, as seen in the visibility map below.
Here is a guess about its new landing location, airfield U, that takes into consideration the fact that #Perseverance's tracks are not visible in the 5 landing images so far downlinked.
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The Santa Cruz delta remnants might have been islands at some point in time, in the ancient Lake Jezero. They are now landmarks in the western part of the crater.
Here are some 3D animations orbiting around the north and central island.
1. Santa Cruz Central
2. Santa Cruz Central, lower angle
3. Santa Cruz North
4. Map
VERY IMPORTANT NEWS ABOUT THE EHT IMAGE OF SGR A* BELOW
We call the first method the Radial Velocity method.
You may think of an orbit as the planet orbiting the star, with the star stationary at the center. This is *almost* the truth, but even though planets are small compared to their stars they “tug” on the star ever so slightly causing it to move around.
This happens in our Solar System too! Jupiter is the biggest culprit - check out this gif (not to scale) of how Jupiter tugs on the Sun.
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The very first planet was found with this radial velocity method!
51 Pegasi b is a Hot Jupiter that was officially discovered in 1995. A few years ago, this discovery of the first planet outside our solar system won the Nobel prize!
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2019/summary/
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Chemical computer can be programmed to solve hard problems
Interesting : All of the bases in DNA and RNA have now been found in meteorites #science #space
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/all-of-the-bases-in-dna-and-rna-have-now-been-found-in-meteorites
