Author: Ed Itor
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Perseverance’s SuperCam Science Instrument Delivers First Results
The above picture represents a close up combining two images from Perseverance’s SuperCam science instrument of a rock named ‘Yeehgo”, which is the Navajo word for diligent. The SuperCam instrument was developed by Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico and a consortium of French research laboratories under the auspices of the Centre National…
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Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission Update 3.9.2021
As we follow the Mars 2020 Perseverance mission I’ll provide weekly updates on what’s been going with the mission. This update covers science and updates and what Perseverance is performing up through March 9, 2021. Percy performed a test drive which included driving forward, backing up to reposition, and continued movements so Percy could image…
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Vape vs. Flower
The last few times I went to the cannabis store/club/place/whatever I picked up vape cartridges for my battery as opposed to buying a half ounce or so of flower. Usually I do buy flower but just a few weeks ago I decided to try going vape instead of flower and to be honest, not sure…
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James Webb Space Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a NASA mission I have been waiting for some time to launch. Originally set to be launched in 2018, we are now 3 years overdue. Admittedly the James Webb Space Telescope might be the most complicated piece of equipment NASA has ever launched, and that’s saying something when…
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Triangles
What do you think of triangles? 180 degrees? a2+b2=c2? No, not those triangles. I’m talking more of like the Bermuda Triangle of course. Surely you’ve heard of the Bermuda Triangle? You know, that mystical terrible place where people places and things go missing swallowed up by the ocean to never ever be seen again because…
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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter – High Speed Communications Link
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is an ongoing mission which launched August 12, 2005. After a 7 month journey to Mars it has been on a continuing search for water by studying the evidence of past water features such as river delta’s, lakebeds and old networks of rivers which have carved up and eroded away…
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Cryptocoin – Month 3 – Checking In
I still have the initial grubstake in Ripple Labs XRP Tokens with the initial buy in of the cryptocoin back in January of 2021. $10.00US minus 0.99US cents in fees, ultimately netting me 31.512036 in XRP cryptocoin which works out to $14.02US (approx. . 44US per) right now. When I initially purchased it XRP was…
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The Artemis Missions Phases I-III
The Artemis missions are NASA’s continuing efforts to get humans back to the moon. We’ve had astronauts in space for decades now aboard the orbiting International Space Station. The scope of the Artemis Phase I-III missions culminates historically with America putting the first woman and getting man back to the moon by 2024 in the…
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Panorama of Mars
The above image is the top down view looking at the rover right before the cables connecting it to it’s flight mechanism were “pyrotechnically cut” and Perseverance dropped to the ground. You can see the gravel below the rover being pushed outward in all directions from the powerful jets keeping the 1 ton rover aloft…
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hOus3 – The Tag Along – JeruZalem
No Spoilers An interesting movie made all the more interesting by the voiceover translation that made it seem like an old Kung-Fu movie. Took me a few minutes to get into this one but when the plot finally unfolds I found it to be a little ridiculous and really stretching the bounds of believability. If…