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February 19, 2021 05:45 pm
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/19/22291324/linux-perseverance-mars-curiosity-ingenuity
Linux has made it to Mars
Yesterday, NASA landed a rover named Perseverance on Mars. I, along with 2 million other people, watched the landing happen live on YouTube. It was beautiful. I mean, here’s this little robot dude that’s traveled millions and millions of miles through the barrenness of space, and now it’s just hanging out on Mars taking pics and scientific samples! (Perseverance joins older sibling Curiosity on the surface of the Red Planet. Hope they have a nice time together!)
In any case, Perseverance didn’t traverse the vastness of space alone. Ingenuity, a tiny helicopter, tagged along for the ride. As it’s primarily a technology demonstration, Ingenuity’s destiny is to attempt the first powered flight on any planet other than Earth and to...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/19/22291324/linux-perseverance-mars-curiosity-ingenuity
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