How NASA Designed a Helicopter That Could Fly Autonomously on Mars. How software was developed to help NASA control a autonomous remote helicopter on Mars.
Everything has gone as planned. On Thursday 18th Feb 2021. The NASA Perseverance Rover, will touched down on Mars safely and sent its first signal and images back to Earth.
One of the advantages of being a higher education student or in my case alumni is you get to join groups. I have just been watching a live webcast on the experiments that are being used onboard Mars rovers to look for possible indicators that Mars once supported life.
Exploring the Habitability of Mars
with the Curiosity and Rosalind Franklin rovers and Orbital Missions
I am not sure if there is a recording of this going up, but the link to a some more information is here.
I am currently undertaking Particle Physics but there is also a really interesting series of lecutures on AstroBiology I want to check out too.