Sample collection tube on Mars collected and dropped by the Perseverance Rover in Jezero crater. There will be a future robotic mission to pick this up and return it to earth. If that doesn’t happen the next time this tube moves it will most likely will be picked up by a human.
Picture credit: NASA/JPL #mars #space #perservance #NASA

🤖 Mars has a visitor: #Perservance

after a 472 million kilometer journey, #Nasa 's robotic vehicle landed safely and as scheduled on #Mars.

But did you know that the underlying program #code is based on a multi-platform compatible #opensource #framework called F' (F Prime)?

https://github.com/nasa/fprime

#science #opensource #robot
#programming #c++

GitHub - nasa/fprime: F´ - A flight software and embedded systems framework

F´ - A flight software and embedded systems framework - nasa/fprime

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