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Transcript/ScriptThe Week in Space (TV)
HEADLINE: NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Sets Speed Record on Mars
TEASER: Plus a mysterious alien door with a seemingly simple explanation
PUBLISHED AT: 6/2/2022 at
BYLINE: Arash Arabasadi
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DATELINE: Washington
VIDEOGRAPHER: AP/ REUTERS/ NASA/JPL-CALTECH/ NASA/JPL-CALTECH/MSSS/ YouTube/NASA/ Carlos Fernando Jung
SCRIPT EDITORS: MAS, Bowman
VIDEO SOURCE (S): AP/ REUTERS/ NASA/JPL-CALTECH/ NASA/JPL-CALTECH/MSSS/ YouTube/NASA/ Carlos Fernando Jung
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[[INTRO: One of NASA’s robots on Mars chops its way through the record books. Plus, next-generation spacesuits, and a meteor shower ignites the sky over Brazil. VOA’s Arash Arabasadi brings us The Week in Space.]]
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We begin this week onboard the Ingenuity helicopter – or Ginny, for short – on its 25th flight since landing on Mars last February. This mission was Ginny’s fastest and farthest as it flew more than 700 meters at a speed of five-and-a-half meters per second. Mission controllers say they recently lost contact with Ginny after it entered a low-power state, but it now appears to be drawing enough power from its solar array, bringing the team a step closer to their next flight.
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Ginny’s adventure comes after recent images captured by NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover showing a mysterious dark opening that lit the internet on fire with speculation that it was “alien door.” A British geologist who’s studied Mars tells live science-dot-com that it’s more likely the product of natural erosion.
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In other news, NASA this week chose Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace to design the next generation of spacesuits and systems to work outside the International Space Station, further explore the moon, and prepare for humans to travel to Mars.
[RADIO TRACK: Dan Burbank, Senior Technical Fellow at Collins Aerospace speaking at a NASA briefing in Houston.]
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“We’ll often call the spacesuit the world’s smallest spacecraft. It’s human shaped ((and)) human sized. It shouldn’t feel like a spacecraft. We want to be able to create an immersive environment that, for the crew member, gives them the most amount of mobility. That gives them, that complements the crew member’s capability rather than constrains it.”
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NASA says the new suits will help the agency establish a long-term foothold on the Moon as part of its Artemis program, which looks to land humans back on the lunar surface after half-a-century without visitors.
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Meanwhile, sky gazers in Brazil this week may have witnessed the Tau-Herculid meteor shower streaking through the night sky.
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The images were made possible by the Heller and Jung ((Yoon-geh)) Observatory in Rio Grande Do Sul ((HE-oh Gran-Jeh Doo Sool)).
[RADIO TRACK: Director Carlos Fernando Jung ((Cah-los Feh-nando Yoon-geh)) speaking in an observatory handout.]
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“This meteor shower happened due to fragments left behind comet 73 P’s passage. Our planet crossed the orbit of these fragments for the first time, and we may have many fragments entering our atmosphere.”
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Experts predicted as many as 100-thousand meteors would be recorded per hour during the event. The Heller and Jung Space Observatory recorded a meteor falling for nearly 10 seconds ((9.9)), the longest such recording this year. Arash Arabasadi, VOA News.
NewsML Media TopicsArts, Culture, Entertainment and Media
NetworkVOA
Location (dateline)Washington D.C.
Embargo DateJune 2, 2022 15:57 EDT
BylineArash Arabasadi, VOA News.
Brand / Language ServiceVoice of America - English
