The Apollo 11 mission was the first one to land on the moon on 20 July 1969. The crew of Apollo 9 spent ten days orbiting Earth and completed the first manned flight of the lunar module – the section of the Apollo rocket that would later land Neil Armstrong on the Moon. The first manned mission to the moon was Apollo 8 which circled around it on Christmas Eve in 1968 but did not land. The first four flights tested the equipment for the Apollo Program and six of the other seven flights managed to land on the moon. (EDT).Īpollo was the NASA programme that launched in 1961 and got the first man on the moon eight years later. The above article has been published from a wire agency with minimal modifications to the headline and text.NASA photo taken on Jshows the huge, 363-foot tall Apollo 11 Spacecraft 107/Lunar Module S/Saturn 506) space vehicle launched from Pad A, Launch Complex 39. The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is part of NASA's Moon to Mars exploration approach, which includes Artemis missions to the Moon that will help prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet. But it is geologically interesting, reinforcing just how much great stuff the team gets to pick and choose from here at Jezero. We're currently not planning on going there it's too far out of our way. 'And finally, there is the peak of 'Santa Cruz' far in the distance. 'Another cool thing about this image is that one can also see in the background, on the right, the path Perseverance took as it made its way to South Seitah,' Nunez said. The caprocks are usually made of harder, more resistant material than those stacked below them, suggesting potential differences in how the material was deposited. It contains low-lying flat rocks near the base of the ridge and rocky outcrops with thin layering at the base and massive caprocks near and at the ridge's peak. The 'Martre Ridge' (named after a commune in southeastern France) is like the Faillefeu, except it's three times as big. The distinctly thin, at times tilted layering evident in several of Faillefeu's rocks would have been high on the science team's list of things to explore because tilted layering suggests the possibility of tectonic activity.īut similar features and other compelling geology were visible on another ridgeline that the mission's science team opted to explore instead. If it's not a field geologist's dream, it's pretty close,' said Jorge Nunez, an astrobiologist and planetary scientist working on the science team of NASA's Perseverance rover. With multiple intriguing rocky outcrops and ridgelines, each one is seemingly better than the last. It shows not only the incredible scale of the area, but also all the exploration possibilities South Seitah has to offer. 'This panorama is spectacular because you feel like you are there. Left of centre and halfway up the image are the grey, darker grey, and Swiss-coffee-coloured rocky outcrops of the ridge nicknamed 'Faillefeu' (after a medieval abbey in the French Alps). The mosaic was taken at the highest magnification and stretched so the subtle colour differences in the rocks and soil would be visible to the naked eye. The Perseverance rover was parked on an elevated overlook just outside its entry point into South Seitah, NASA said in a statement. NASA's Perseverance rover has clicked a panorama view of the 'South Seitah' region of Mars' Jezero Crater, offering clues to the area's mysterious past.Ĭomposed of 84 individual enhanced-colour images later stitched together, the mosaic was taken on September 12 (the 201st Martian day, or sol, of the mission) by the Mastcam-Z camera system.

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