Iapetus, 350 Years Later, Remains Our Most Misunderstood Moon
It was an early demonstration of digital fly-by-wire technology that is applied in modern passenger jets and military aircraft. It succeeded, but there was no lengthy-term plan to create a sustainable human presence there. This image of the parachute that helped deliver NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover to the Martian surface was taken by the rover’s Mastcam-Z instrument in April. Astronaut Charlie M. Duke Jr., lunar module pilot of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission, is photographed collecting lunar samples during…