How Do Spacecraft Deal with Dust Storms on Mars? (NASA Mars Report February 14, 2022)
A large dust storm on Mars, nearly twice the size of the United States, covered the southern hemisphere of the Red Planet in early January 2022, leading to some of NASA’s explorers on the surface hitting pause on their normal activities. NASA’s Insight lander put itself in a "safe mode" to conserve battery power after dust prevented sunlight from reaching the solar panels. NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter also had to postpone flights until conditions improved.
A fleet of NASA orbiters monitor Martian dust storms like this one and serve as lifelines to Earth by relaying data from the rovers and lander on the ground back to the team. This includes the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MAVEN, and Odyssey.
Odyssey, while facing its technical issue, was able to recover quickly enough to come to InSight's aid during the dust storm.
For more information on NASA's Mars missions, visit mars.nasa.gov.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS
Видео How Do Spacecraft Deal with Dust Storms on Mars? (NASA Mars Report February 14, 2022) канала NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
A fleet of NASA orbiters monitor Martian dust storms like this one and serve as lifelines to Earth by relaying data from the rovers and lander on the ground back to the team. This includes the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MAVEN, and Odyssey.
Odyssey, while facing its technical issue, was able to recover quickly enough to come to InSight's aid during the dust storm.
For more information on NASA's Mars missions, visit mars.nasa.gov.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS
Видео How Do Spacecraft Deal with Dust Storms on Mars? (NASA Mars Report February 14, 2022) канала NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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