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have to stay positive and always be thankful… remembering to do our best, enjoy
everything we do, believe in ourselves, and let those we care about most know
(I always say this, we all need to take it to heart) …hugs… STAY SAFE, TAKE
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<!--EndFragment--></div><div class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 38, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: x-large;" class=""><a href="https://spotthestation.nasa.gov" class="">https://spotthestation.nasa.gov</a> </span></div><div class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: inherit; font-size: 2.2em;" class="">NASA to Discuss, Conduct Test to Prepare for Artemis I Moon Mission </span></div><div class=""><section id="ember30" class="opened collapsible ember-view" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: none; overflow-y: hidden;"><div class="text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="type-image dnd-atom-wrapper context-full_width" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; display: table; clear: both; margin: 0px auto 2em;"><div class="dnd-drop-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/artemis_image.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><img typeof="foaf:Image" alt="NASA’s Artemis I Moon rocket – carried atop the crawler-transporter 2 – rolls out of the Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 6, 2022, beginning the 4.2-mile journey to Launch Complex 39B. " title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; margin-bottom: 10px;" apple-inline="yes" id="CF53E23D-72C4-41E5-8D1F-9EE0B00C9935" src="cid:B9F31181-A118-4CAE-9179-5C04F509CF37" class=""></font></a></div><div class="dnd-legend-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; caption-side: bottom;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="Gill Sans" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">NASA’s Artemis I Moon rocket – carried atop the crawler-transporter 2 – rolls out of the Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 6, 2022, beginning the 4.2-mile journey to Launch Complex 39B.</font></div><div class="credits" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><font face="Gill Sans" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Credits: NASA/Ben Smegelsky</font></div><div class="link" style="font-size: 11px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; background-image: inherit; background-size: inherit; background-attachment: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-color: inherit; padding: 0px; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit;"></div></div></div><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">NASA is targeting Saturday, June 18, for the beginning of the next <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-readies-rocket-for-artemis-i-wet-dress-rehearsal/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);" class="">wet dress rehearsal test</a> of the agency’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida with tanking operations on Monday, June 20. During the test, the launch teams will rehearse operations to load propellant into the rocket’s tanks, conduct a full launch countdown, demonstrate the ability to recycle the countdown clock, and drain the tanks to give them an opportunity to practice the timelines and procedures they will use for launch. NASA will provide live coverage of the test on NASA Television media channel, as well as host media calls before and after the wet dress rehearsal test with audio streaming live on the agency’s <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/live" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);" class="">website</a>.</font></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">Full coverage of the test and associated activities are as follows (all times Eastern):</font></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">Monday, June 20</font></strong></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">7 a.m. – Live coverage of tanking operations with commentary begins</font></div><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">2:40 p.m. – Target test window</font></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">Coverage with live commentary throughout tanking operations will air on the media channel of NASA Television, the <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/connect/apps.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);" class="">NASA app</a>, and the agency’s <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/live" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);" class="">website</a>.</font></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">Tuesday, June 21</font></strong></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">11 a.m. – Posttest media teleconference with the following participants:</font></div><ul style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;" class=""><li style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">Tom Whitmeyer, deputy associate administrator for Common Exploration Systems Development, NASA Headquarters</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">Charlie Blackwell-Thompson, Artemis launch director, Exploration Ground Systems Program, Kennedy</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">John Honeycutt, manager, Space Launch System Program, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">Howard Hu, manager, Orion Program, NASA’s Johnson Space Center</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">Mike Sarafin, Artemis mission manager, NASA Headquarters</font></li></ul><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">To participate by telephone, media must RSVP no later than two hours prior to the start of the event to: <a href="mailto:ksc-newsroom@mail.nasa.gov" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);" class="">ksc-newsroom@mail.nasa.gov</a>. </font></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">NASA’s <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);" class="">Artemis I</a> Moon rocket returned to the spaceport’s launch pad 39B Monday, June 6, after an eight-hour journey from the Vehicle Assembly Building. Teams are working to secure the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft and connect the ground systems to the mobile launcher at the pad in preparation of the upcoming tanking test. The rehearsal is the final test needed before launch and will begin at 5 p.m. EDT Saturday, June 18 with “call to stations,” when members of the launch control team will arrive at their consoles to start the approximately two-day <a href="https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis/2022/03/31/artemis-i-wet-dress-rehearsal-preparations-underway%e2%80%af%e2%80%af/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);" class="">countdown</a>. On Monday, June 20, the launch director and mission management team chair decide at approximately 7 a.m. if they are “go” or “no-go” to begin tanking the rocket. The team will count down to a targeted two-hour test window that opens at 2:40 p.m. During the test, the team may hold during the countdown as necessary to verify conditions before resuming the countdown, or extend beyond the test window, if needed and resources allow. Through <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/artemisprogram" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);" class="">Artemis</a> missions, NASA will land the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and serving as a steppingstone to send astronauts to Mars.</font></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">For updates, follow along on NASA’s Artemis blog at: <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);" class=""><a href="https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);" class="">https://blogs.nasa.gov/artemis</a></strong></font></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><h1 style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-size: 31px;" class="">'Dark' black hole wandering the Milky Way may be the smallest yet detected</span></h1>
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</p><p class="strapline" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">The stellar-mass black hole is likely one of 100 million solitary black holes in the Milky Way, scientists said</font><img src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/V3AESvVa47hhJ4vcfpebph-320-80.png" alt="Artist's illustration showing a black hole at the center of the image, surrounded by stars in the Milky Way." class=" hero-image block-image-ads" srcset="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/V3AESvVa47hhJ4vcfpebph-320-80.png 320w, https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/V3AESvVa47hhJ4vcfpebph-480-80.png 480w, https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/V3AESvVa47hhJ4vcfpebph-650-80.png 650w, https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/V3AESvVa47hhJ4vcfpebph-970-80.png 970w, https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/V3AESvVa47hhJ4vcfpebph-1024-80.png 1024w" sizes="(min-width: 1000px) 970px, calc(100vw - 40px)" data-original-mos="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/V3AESvVa47hhJ4vcfpebph.png" data-pin-media="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/V3AESvVa47hhJ4vcfpebph.png"></p><section class="content-wrapper"><div class="box less-space hero-image-wrapper" itemprop="image" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/ImageObject" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
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<span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: auto;" class=""><div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin: auto;" id="bordeaux-static-slot-5" class="bordeaux-slot" data-feat-ref="bordeaux-feat-id-108"></div></span><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">A
rogue black hole wandering the space lanes of our Milky Way galaxy
alone could be the smallest black hole yet found, according to one
estimate of its mass.</font></p><div id="ad-unit-1" class="ad-unit" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: auto;" class=""><div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin: auto;" id="bordeaux-static-slot-6" class="bordeaux-slot" data-feat-ref="bordeaux-feat-id-109"></div></span><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">Earlier
this year, astronomers led by Kailash Sahu of the Space Telescope
Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, announced the discovery of the
<a href="https://www.space.com/rogue-black-hole-isolated-discovery" data-component-tracked="1" class="hawk-link-parsed">first known isolated stellar-mass black hole</a>. </font></p><aside class="hawk-processed hawk-nest" data-render-type="fte" data-skip="dealsy" data-widget-type="seasonal" data-widget-id="7977182765817987000" data-result="missing" data-feat-ref="hawk-id-0" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></aside><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: auto;" class=""><div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin: auto;" id="bordeaux-static-slot-7" class="bordeaux-slot" data-feat-ref="bordeaux-feat-id-110"></div></span><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">The <a href="https://www.space.com/15421-black-holes-facts-formation-discovery-sdcmp.html" data-component-tracked="1" class="hawk-link-parsed">black hole</a> is 5,000 light-years away and was discovered thanks to the power of its gravity to act as a <a href="https://www.space.com/39999-how-gravitational-lenses-work.html" data-component-tracked="1" class="hawk-link-parsed">gravitational lens</a>,
magnifying the light of a background star 19,000 light-years away. It
was initially spotted by two ground-based surveys, the Polish-led
Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) which mostly uses the
Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, and the Microlensing Observations in
Astrophysics (MOA) project at the Mount John University Observatory in
New Zealand.</font></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="title-bar" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2em 0px;"><div class="title-wrap" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 694.203125px; padding: 0px;"><h1 class="title" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.1;"><span style="font-size: 31px;" class="">NASA Invites Media, Public to View Webb Telescope’s First Images</span></h1></div></div><section id="ember29" class="opened collapsible ember-view" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: none; overflow-y: hidden;"><div class="text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="type-image dnd-atom-wrapper context-full_width" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; display: table; clear: both; margin: 0px auto 2em;"><div class="dnd-drop-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/webb_advisory.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class=""><img typeof="foaf:Image" alt="An image of the James Webb Space Telescope taken on March 5, 2020." title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; margin-bottom: 10px;" apple-inline="yes" id="74E2E9FF-220C-4EEA-9845-AD93464CB823" src="cid:54318FAD-711E-4DDE-9AE0-D6503933666B" class=""></font></a></div><div class="dnd-legend-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; caption-side: bottom;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">An image of the James Webb Space Telescope taken on March 5, 2020.</font></div><div class="credits" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">Credits: NASA/Chris Gunn</font></div><div class="link" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: inherit; background-size: inherit; background-attachment: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-color: inherit; padding: 0px; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit;"></div></div></div><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">NASA, in partnership with ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA (Canadian Space Agency), will release the James Webb Space Telescope’s first <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/first-images-from-nasa-s-webb-space-telescope-coming-soon" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;" class="">full-color images</a> and spectroscopic data during a televised broadcast beginning at 10:30 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, July 12, from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Released one by one, these first images from the world’s largest and most powerful space telescope will demonstrate Webb at its full power, ready to begin its mission to <a href="https://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/first-science-images-packet/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;" class="">unfold the infrared universe</a>. Each image will simultaneously be made available on social media as well as on the agency’s website at: </font><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/webbfirstimages" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">nasa.gov/webbfirstimage</font><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 1em;" class="">s</font></a></strong></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="title-bar" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2em 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Titillium Web", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="title-wrap" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 694.203125px; padding: 0px;"><h1 class="title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 2.2em; margin: 0px; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.1;">NASA, Partner Establish New Research Group for Mars Sample Return Program</h1></div></div><section id="ember24" class="opened collapsible ember-view" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: none; overflow-y: hidden;"><div class="text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="type-image dnd-atom-wrapper context-full_width" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; clear: both; margin: 0px auto 2em;"><div class="dnd-drop-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia25277-1041.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);" class=""><img typeof="foaf:Image" alt="This illustration shows a concept for a proposed NASA Sample Retrieval Lander" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; margin-bottom: 10px;" apple-inline="yes" id="F62C08E2-83B9-4D28-B890-13B9FDA69B80" src="cid:B4368923-E3A1-493E-81F3-EA5949DFF06A" class=""></a></div><div class="dnd-legend-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 11px;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box;">This illustration shows a concept for a proposed NASA Sample Retrieval Lander that would carry a small rocket (about 10 feet, or 3 meters, tall) called the Mars Ascent Vehicle to the Martian surface.</div><div class="credits" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech</div><div class="link" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: inherit; background-size: inherit; background-attachment: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-color: inherit; padding: 0px; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit;"></div></div></div><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">Sixteen scientists from the U.S., Europe, Canada, and Japan have been chosen to help future samples from the Red Planet achieve their full potential.</font></em></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">NASA and ESA (European Space Agency), its partner in the Mars Sample Return Program, have established a new group of researchers to maximize the scientific potential of Mars rock and sediment samples that would be returned to Earth for in-depth analysis. Called the Mars Sample Return Campaign Science Group, the 16 researchers will function as a science resource for the campaign’s project teams as well as for related Earth-based ground projects, such as sample recovery and curation.</font></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">“These 16 individuals will be the standard-bearers for Mars Sample Return science,” said Michael Meyer, Mars Exploration Program lead scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “They will build the roadmap by which science for this historic endeavor is accomplished – including establishing the processes for sample-related decision-making and designing the procedures that will allow the worldwide scientific community to become involved with these first samples from another world.”</font></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><h3 class="mh-posts-large-title" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 2rem; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.3; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://spaceflightnow.com/2022/06/14/nasa-making-progress-deploying-stuck-solar-panel-on-lucy-asteroid-probe/" title="Ninth asteroid added to Lucy mission; optimism grows on solar array issue" rel="bookmark" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;" class="">Ninth asteroid added to Lucy mission; optimism grows on solar array issue</a></h3></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><div class="mh-posts-large-thumb" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative;"><a href="https://spaceflightnow.com/2022/06/14/nasa-making-progress-deploying-stuck-solar-panel-on-lucy-asteroid-probe/" title="Ninth asteroid added to Lucy mission; optimism grows on solar array issue" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;" class=""><img data-lazy-type="image" data-lazy-src="https://spaceflightnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/lucy_ultraflex-678x381.jpg" class="wp-post-image size-mh-magazine-content lazy-loaded attachment-mh-magazine-content lazy" alt="" loading="lazy" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: bottom; max-width: 100%;" apple-inline="yes" id="C50BB954-35C1-4D77-A339-4962D2EB055B" src="cid:0B428B35-12CE-45CA-A4D2-C8F2AF3A5041"></a></div><div class="mh-posts-large-content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><header class="mh-posts-large-header" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><h3 class="mh-posts-large-title" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 2rem; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.3; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class=""><br class=""></span></h3><h3 class="mh-posts-large-title" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.3; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: normal;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">Engineers have made progress in attempts to fully unfurl a solar array wing that snagged on NASA’s Lucy asteroid explorer shortly after launch last October, adding to optimism that the spacecraft can complete its 12-year mission as planned.</font></span></h3><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class=""><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: normal;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class=""><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: normal;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><div class="title-bar" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2em 0px;"><div class="title-wrap" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 694.203125px; padding: 0px;"><h1 class="title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 2.2em; margin: 0px; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.1;">NASA’s Perseverance Celebrates First Year on Mars by Learning to Run</h1></div></div><section id="ember24" class="opened collapsible ember-view" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: none; overflow-y: hidden;"><div class="text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="type-image dnd-atom-wrapper context-full_width" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; clear: both; margin: 0px auto 2em;"><div class="dnd-drop-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/1-landing-pia24428-1041.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);" class=""><img typeof="foaf:Image" alt="The Mars 2020 descent stage lowers NASA’s Perseverance rover" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; margin-bottom: 10px;" apple-inline="yes" id="15C4CF61-15AF-4DE2-A246-997B9683863B" src="cid:5DE1A427-6B05-444E-AE71-D074FCEAA30A" class=""></a></div><div class="dnd-legend-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 11px;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Mars 2020 descent stage lowers NASA’s Perseverance rover onto the Red Planet on Feb. 18, 2021. The image is from video captured by a camera aboard the descent stage.</div><div class="credits" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech</div><div class="link" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: inherit; background-size: inherit; background-attachment: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-clip: inherit; background-color: inherit; padding: 0px; background-position: inherit; background-repeat: inherit;"><a href="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);" class=""></a></div></div></div><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><em style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">The rover has racked up a series of accomplishments, including new distance records, as it reaches the end of the first of several planned science campaigns on the Red Planet.</font></em></p><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class=""><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">NASA’s Perseverance rover has notched up a slew of firsts since touching down on Mars one year ago, on Feb. 18, 2021, and the six-wheeled scientist has other important accomplishments in store as it speeds toward its new destination and a new science campaign. </span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">Weighing roughly 1 ton (1,025 kilograms), Perseverance is the heaviest rover ever to touch down on Mars, returning</span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class=""> </span><a href="https://youtu.be/4czjS9h4Fpg" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);" class="">dramatic video</a><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class=""> </span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">of its landing. The rover collected the first rock core samples from another planet (it’s carrying six so far), served as an indispensable base station for Ingenuity, the first helicopter on Mars, and tested</span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class=""> </span><a href="https://mars.nasa.gov/news/8926/nasas-perseverance-mars-rover-extracts-first-oxygen-from-red-planet/" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);" class="">MOXIE</a><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class=""> </span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">(Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment), the first prototype oxygen generator on the Red Planet. </span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">Perseverance also recently broke a record for the most distance driven by a Mars rover in a single day, traveling almost 1,050 feet (320 meters) on Feb. 14, 2022, the 351st Martian day, or sol, of the mission. And it performed the entire drive using AutoNav,</span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class=""> </span><a href="https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-self-driving-perseverance-mars-rover-takes-the-wheel" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);" class="">the self-driving software</a><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class=""> </span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">that allows Perseverance to find its own path around rocks and other obstacles.</span></font></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px;" class=""><font color="#ff2600" class=""><a href="https://youtu.be/3XjGGt0RsJM" class="">https://youtu.be/3XjGGt0RsJM</a></font></span></div><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 2em; margin-left: auto;" class=""><div class="type-image dnd-atom-wrapper context-full_width" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: table; clear: both; margin: 0px auto 2em;"></div></span></font></div></section></div></header></div></div></div></section></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 1em; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 1em; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;" class=""><br class=""></p></div></section></div></div></section></div></div></div></section></div></body></html>