Perseverance Mars rover sets off on its first mission, to boldly drill and return samples as no rover has drilled before NASA has finished the Perseverance Mars rover's post-landing shakedown and the vehicle has therefore embarked on its first sample collection mission, the space agency confirmed on Wednesday. The six-wheeled nuclear-powered vehicle has been shuffling about the Jezero crater testing its instruments since it landed in February. …
Good for you - go for it!
Although this was definitely not up at the undergraduate level, about 24 years ago I took an Astronomy GCSE evening class at the local school and sat a proper exam at the end. Afterwards, people found it amusing and possibly appropriate that I managed to achieve a grade of A* (pronounced A 'star').
Sorry to be Mrs Pedantic here, but in the paragraph
"The six-wheeled nuclear-powered vehicle has been shuffling about the Jezero crater testing its instruments since it landed in February. Perseverance tested its hardware and shepherded the world’s first interplanetary helicopter, Ingenuity, sending it zipping through the Martian atmosphere."
Shouldn't that have been, according to the El Reg Soviet's standards for prose and vocabulary "six-wheeled, laser-armed nuclear trundlebot", and I can't think of how to phrase it, but I'm sure there should be a reference to Black Helicopters somewhere when taking about Ingenuity, surely?
Mine's the one with the bottle of red and green stripey tablets in the right-hand pocket..
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