• money_loo@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Perseverance and its helicopter companion, Ingenuity, landed in Jezero Crater on February 18, 2021, to search for signs of ancient microbial life.

    It still blows my mind we live in a time statements like that are so casual to be mostly forgotten by the time you’re at the next paragraph.

    Astounding work by the engineers and scientists and all the people at NASA.

    • m3t00🌎@lemmy.worldOPM
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      11 months ago

      right, the thought, work and skill are amazing. space science is the human spirit in action