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NASA: Rotor blades for next Mars helicopter ready for supersonic speed

Ingenuity has proven that helicopters can fly on Mars. However, it couldn't lift much. This is set to change with its successors.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/NASA-Rotor-blades-for-next-Mars-helicopter-ready-for-supersonic-speed-11292992.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Forschung #Ingenuity #Mars #NASA #Raumfahrt #Wissenschaft #news

NASA: Rotorblätter für nächste Mars-Helikopter fit für Überschallgeschwindigkeit

Ingenuity hat unter Beweis gestellt, dass Helikopter auf dem Mars fliegen können. Viel heben konnte er aber nicht. Das soll bei seinen Nachfolgern anders sein.

https://www.heise.de/news/NASA-Rotorblaetter-fuer-naechste-Mars-Helikopter-fit-fuer-Ueberschallgeschwindigkeit-11292775.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Forschung #Ingenuity #Mars #NASA #Raumfahrt #Wissenschaft #news

NASA Pushes Next-Gen Mars Helicopter Rotor Blades Past Mach 1

The rotor blades that will carry NASA’s next-generation helicopters to new Martian heights broke the sound barrier during…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #Ingenuity(Helicopter) #mars #Mars2020 #Perseverance(Rover)
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/630382/

NASA Pushes Next-Gen Mars Helicopter Rotor Blades Past Mach 1

The rotor blades that will carry NASA’s next-generation helicopters to new Martian heights broke the sound barrier during…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Science #Ingenuity(Helicopter) #mars #Mars2020 #Perseverance(Rover)
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/630382/

NASA Pushes Next-Gen Mars Helicopter Rotor Blades Past Mach 1

The rotor blades that will carry NASA’s next-generation helicopters to new Martian heights broke the sound barrier during…
#NewsBeep #News #Space #Ingenuity(Helicopter) #Mars #Mars2020 #Perseverance(Rover) #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/571603/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/944491/ NASA Pushes Next-Gen Mars Helicopter Rotor Blades Past Mach 1 #Ingenuity(Helicopter) #Mars #Mars2020 #PerseveranceRover #Science #Space #UK #UnitedKingdom

A quotation from Douglas Adams

A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide No. 5, Mostly Harmless, ch. 12 (1992)

More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/1464/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #hitchhikersguide #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #mostlyharmless #design #failsafe #fool #foolproofing #genius #ingenuity

Colors
by WATSON

(and the #Ingenuity UHF radio antenna)

Processed, rotated SHERLOC_WATSON
looking WNW (303°) from RMC 87.5154
Sol 1841, LMST: 14:05:34
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01841/ids/edr/browse/shrlc/SIF_1841_0830380219_761EBY_N0875154SRLC07008_0000LMJ01.png

Credit: #NASA #JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise

#Perseverance #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

Space Reactor‑1 Freedom, the first nuclear powered interplanetary spacecraft, launching to Mars before the end of 2028 👀

Upon reaching Mars, it will deploy the Skyfall payload of Ingenuity‑class helicopters to continue exploring the Red Planet 👀

Check out today's announcements by NASA ⤵️

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-unveils-initiatives-to-achieve-americas-national-space-policy/

#Mars #SR1Freedom #Ingenuity #space #science #news #SpaceReactor1Freedom #SpaceReactor #SpaceReactor1 #NASA #nuclear #nuclearpower

[ Fiksaĵo Ŝmiksaĵo ]

Ĉiam ekzistas solvo.
Uzu tion, kion vi havas.

~eltrovemo~

\eZ

#miksang #dailypic #aphotoaday
#Esperanto #photography #photo
#winter #alps #alpine #snow #ski #skibum #macgyver #mcgyver #helmetcam #helmetcamera #camera
#hodgepodge #ingenuity

🤔 In a breathtaking display of #human #ingenuity, behold a #museum dedicated to... #plugs and sockets! 🔌 Because, of course, the world was clamoring for a #digital #shrine to #electrifyingly #mundane objects. 🎉 Welcome to the electrifyingly dull rabbit hole that nobody asked for!
https://plugsocketmuseum.nl/index.html #sockets #HackerNews #ngated

🤔 In a breathtaking display of #human #ingenuity, behold a #museum dedicated to... #plugs and sockets! 🔌 Because, of course, the world was clamoring for a #digital #shrine to #electrifyingly #mundane objects. 🎉 Welcome to the electrifyingly dull rabbit hole that nobody asked for!
https://plugsocketmuseum.nl/index.html #sockets #HackerNews #ngated

🤔 In a breathtaking display of #human #ingenuity, behold a #museum dedicated to... #plugs and sockets! 🔌 Because, of course, the world was clamoring for a #digital #shrine to #electrifyingly #mundane objects. 🎉 Welcome to the electrifyingly dull rabbit hole that nobody asked for!
https://plugsocketmuseum.nl/index.html #sockets #HackerNews #ngated

🤔 In a breathtaking display of #human #ingenuity, behold a #museum dedicated to... #plugs and sockets! 🔌 Because, of course, the world was clamoring for a #digital #shrine to #electrifyingly #mundane objects. 🎉 Welcome to the electrifyingly dull rabbit hole that nobody asked for!
https://plugsocketmuseum.nl/index.html #sockets #HackerNews #ngated

From the Wright brothers on Earth to NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter on Mars, pioneering flight continues to shape our future 🚀

What must we change on Earth to keep our journey into space alive—and create a better future for generations to come?

🔗 https://authormulhall.com/first-mars-flight-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-legacy/

#NASA #Mars #Ingenuity #SpaceExploration #Science #Aviation #FutureOfFlight #STEM

One of music’s best kept secrets celebrates 100 years, quietly – NPR

Music

One of music’s best kept secrets celebrates 100 years, quietly

The story of Coolidge Auditorium, at the Library of Congress, is one of American ingenuity, cultural integrity and a century of free concerts.

October 25, 20258:18 AM ET, Heard on Weekend Edition Saturday

Tom Huizenga 6-Minute Listen Transcript

The year is 1925. The Great Gatsby is published, the jazz age is swinging, and on October 28th, a new concert hall opens at an unlikely spot — the Library of Congress, in Washington D.C. If only its cream-colored walls could talk. For 100 years, performers of all stripes have graced the Library stage, from classical music luminaries like Béla Bartók and Igor Stravinsky to Stevie Wonder, Audra McDonald and Max Roach. Today, it remains one of the capitol city’s most beautiful, best sounding and perhaps best kept secrets.

The idea for a concert hall at the Library of Congress did not stem from congress. It came from philanthropist Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge — and one bespoke piece of bipartisan legislation. “She was indefatigable and intrepid,” says Anne McLean, senior producer for concerts at the Library, “a remarkable woman, six feet tall, a brilliant pianist.” McLean is sitting with me on the stage, overlooking the empty auditorium. To mark the centennial, celebratory concerts and commissions have been heard in the hall all year. But not now. The government shutdown has forced the hall to close its doors, and unless a deal is reached before Tuesday, it’ll be closed on the anniversary itself.

Coolidge was born into a wealthy Chicago family in 1864. She studied music, traveled abroad, married a Harvard-trained orthopedic surgeon and, in 1924, came to Washington to establish a foothold in the nation’s capitol. She approached Carl Engel, the Library’s music chief, about the possibility of adding a small concert hall to the Library’s voluptuous — and voluminous — Thomas Jefferson building, designed after the Paris opera house and completed in 1897. You can’t see the hall from the outside, as it’s tucked inside the building’s Northwest Courtyard.

Eager to get started, Coolidge wrote a check for $60,000 to the Librarian of Congress, Herbert Putnam, on Nov. 12, 1924. And yet there was no legal mechanism in place for a civilian to make such a monetary gift to the U.S. government. Congress worked quickly, taking only a little over a month to pass a bill allowing such a contribution.

It took less than six months to build the hall itself — the intimate, 485-seat Coolidge Auditorium, with its warm precise acoustics. “There are a lot of secrets to it,” McLean says. “The back wall of the auditorium is slightly shaved to be concave and extremely responsive to string sound. Underneath the stage is hollow. But that hollowness is a factor, as is the cork floor, which was very unusual for its time.” McLean says the sound blossoms in the hall. Keen to spread the sound far and wide, Coolidge even had the building wired for the relatively new medium of radio. She added to her initial sum to establish a fund for the commissioning of new music. Engel dubbed her “The Fairy-God-Mother of Music.”

Coolidge was well-connected and fiercely advocated for music. In 1944, she took to the local Washington airwaves with another bold idea. “I could wish for music, the same governmental protection that is given to hygiene, education or public welfare,” she said over WTOP. “How wonderful, if we could have in the cabinet, a secretary of fine arts.”

Coolidge never got her wish, but what she had already created was arguably more important — a living, breathing concert hall that serves as a cultural beacon — preserving history and cultivating new music through commissions.

Perhaps the most famous commission became one of America’s most iconic pieces of music. Aaron Copland‘s ballet Appalachian Spring, written for dancer and choreographer Martha Graham, received its world premiere at Coolidge Auditorium on Oct. 30, 1944. “I think people knew what they were hearing,” McLean says. The ballet would win the Pulitzer prize for music the following year, along with the New York Music Critics Circle Award. It’s hard to imagine a full ballet produced on Coolidge’s modestly-sized stage.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: One of music’s best kept secrets celebrates 100 years, quietly : NPR

#100Years #AaronCopland #CoolidgeAuditorium #Culture #FreeConcerts #Ingenuity #LibraryOfCongress #MarthaGraham #Music #NationalPublicRadio #NPR #TomHuizenga #WeekendEdition

One of music’s best kept secrets celebrates 100 years, quietly – NPR

Music

One of music’s best kept secrets celebrates 100 years, quietly

The story of Coolidge Auditorium, at the Library of Congress, is one of American ingenuity, cultural integrity and a century of free concerts.

October 25, 20258:18 AM ET, Heard on Weekend Edition Saturday

Tom Huizenga 6-Minute Listen Transcript

The year is 1925. The Great Gatsby is published, the jazz age is swinging, and on October 28th, a new concert hall opens at an unlikely spot — the Library of Congress, in Washington D.C. If only its cream-colored walls could talk. For 100 years, performers of all stripes have graced the Library stage, from classical music luminaries like Béla Bartók and Igor Stravinsky to Stevie Wonder, Audra McDonald and Max Roach. Today, it remains one of the capitol city’s most beautiful, best sounding and perhaps best kept secrets.

The idea for a concert hall at the Library of Congress did not stem from congress. It came from philanthropist Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge — and one bespoke piece of bipartisan legislation. “She was indefatigable and intrepid,” says Anne McLean, senior producer for concerts at the Library, “a remarkable woman, six feet tall, a brilliant pianist.” McLean is sitting with me on the stage, overlooking the empty auditorium. To mark the centennial, celebratory concerts and commissions have been heard in the hall all year. But not now. The government shutdown has forced the hall to close its doors, and unless a deal is reached before Tuesday, it’ll be closed on the anniversary itself.

Coolidge was born into a wealthy Chicago family in 1864. She studied music, traveled abroad, married a Harvard-trained orthopedic surgeon and, in 1924, came to Washington to establish a foothold in the nation’s capitol. She approached Carl Engel, the Library’s music chief, about the possibility of adding a small concert hall to the Library’s voluptuous — and voluminous — Thomas Jefferson building, designed after the Paris opera house and completed in 1897. You can’t see the hall from the outside, as it’s tucked inside the building’s Northwest Courtyard.

Eager to get started, Coolidge wrote a check for $60,000 to the Librarian of Congress, Herbert Putnam, on Nov. 12, 1924. And yet there was no legal mechanism in place for a civilian to make such a monetary gift to the U.S. government. Congress worked quickly, taking only a little over a month to pass a bill allowing such a contribution.

It took less than six months to build the hall itself — the intimate, 485-seat Coolidge Auditorium, with its warm precise acoustics. “There are a lot of secrets to it,” McLean says. “The back wall of the auditorium is slightly shaved to be concave and extremely responsive to string sound. Underneath the stage is hollow. But that hollowness is a factor, as is the cork floor, which was very unusual for its time.” McLean says the sound blossoms in the hall. Keen to spread the sound far and wide, Coolidge even had the building wired for the relatively new medium of radio. She added to her initial sum to establish a fund for the commissioning of new music. Engel dubbed her “The Fairy-God-Mother of Music.”

Coolidge was well-connected and fiercely advocated for music. In 1944, she took to the local Washington airwaves with another bold idea. “I could wish for music, the same governmental protection that is given to hygiene, education or public welfare,” she said over WTOP. “How wonderful, if we could have in the cabinet, a secretary of fine arts.”

Coolidge never got her wish, but what she had already created was arguably more important — a living, breathing concert hall that serves as a cultural beacon — preserving history and cultivating new music through commissions.

Perhaps the most famous commission became one of America’s most iconic pieces of music. Aaron Copland‘s ballet Appalachian Spring, written for dancer and choreographer Martha Graham, received its world premiere at Coolidge Auditorium on Oct. 30, 1944. “I think people knew what they were hearing,” McLean says. The ballet would win the Pulitzer prize for music the following year, along with the New York Music Critics Circle Award. It’s hard to imagine a full ballet produced on Coolidge’s modestly-sized stage.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: One of music’s best kept secrets celebrates 100 years, quietly : NPR

#100Years #AaronCopland #CoolidgeAuditorium #Culture #FreeConcerts #Ingenuity #LibraryOfCongress #MarthaGraham #Music #NationalPublicRadio #NPR #TomHuizenga #WeekendEdition

One of music’s best kept secrets celebrates 100 years, quietly – NPR

Music

One of music’s best kept secrets celebrates 100 years, quietly

The story of Coolidge Auditorium, at the Library of Congress, is one of American ingenuity, cultural integrity and a century of free concerts.

October 25, 20258:18 AM ET, Heard on Weekend Edition Saturday

Tom Huizenga 6-Minute Listen Transcript

The year is 1925. The Great Gatsby is published, the jazz age is swinging, and on October 28th, a new concert hall opens at an unlikely spot — the Library of Congress, in Washington D.C. If only its cream-colored walls could talk. For 100 years, performers of all stripes have graced the Library stage, from classical music luminaries like Béla Bartók and Igor Stravinsky to Stevie Wonder, Audra McDonald and Max Roach. Today, it remains one of the capitol city’s most beautiful, best sounding and perhaps best kept secrets.

The idea for a concert hall at the Library of Congress did not stem from congress. It came from philanthropist Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge — and one bespoke piece of bipartisan legislation. “She was indefatigable and intrepid,” says Anne McLean, senior producer for concerts at the Library, “a remarkable woman, six feet tall, a brilliant pianist.” McLean is sitting with me on the stage, overlooking the empty auditorium. To mark the centennial, celebratory concerts and commissions have been heard in the hall all year. But not now. The government shutdown has forced the hall to close its doors, and unless a deal is reached before Tuesday, it’ll be closed on the anniversary itself.

Coolidge was born into a wealthy Chicago family in 1864. She studied music, traveled abroad, married a Harvard-trained orthopedic surgeon and, in 1924, came to Washington to establish a foothold in the nation’s capitol. She approached Carl Engel, the Library’s music chief, about the possibility of adding a small concert hall to the Library’s voluptuous — and voluminous — Thomas Jefferson building, designed after the Paris opera house and completed in 1897. You can’t see the hall from the outside, as it’s tucked inside the building’s Northwest Courtyard.

Eager to get started, Coolidge wrote a check for $60,000 to the Librarian of Congress, Herbert Putnam, on Nov. 12, 1924. And yet there was no legal mechanism in place for a civilian to make such a monetary gift to the U.S. government. Congress worked quickly, taking only a little over a month to pass a bill allowing such a contribution.

It took less than six months to build the hall itself — the intimate, 485-seat Coolidge Auditorium, with its warm precise acoustics. “There are a lot of secrets to it,” McLean says. “The back wall of the auditorium is slightly shaved to be concave and extremely responsive to string sound. Underneath the stage is hollow. But that hollowness is a factor, as is the cork floor, which was very unusual for its time.” McLean says the sound blossoms in the hall. Keen to spread the sound far and wide, Coolidge even had the building wired for the relatively new medium of radio. She added to her initial sum to establish a fund for the commissioning of new music. Engel dubbed her “The Fairy-God-Mother of Music.”

Coolidge was well-connected and fiercely advocated for music. In 1944, she took to the local Washington airwaves with another bold idea. “I could wish for music, the same governmental protection that is given to hygiene, education or public welfare,” she said over WTOP. “How wonderful, if we could have in the cabinet, a secretary of fine arts.”

Coolidge never got her wish, but what she had already created was arguably more important — a living, breathing concert hall that serves as a cultural beacon — preserving history and cultivating new music through commissions.

Perhaps the most famous commission became one of America’s most iconic pieces of music. Aaron Copland‘s ballet Appalachian Spring, written for dancer and choreographer Martha Graham, received its world premiere at Coolidge Auditorium on Oct. 30, 1944. “I think people knew what they were hearing,” McLean says. The ballet would win the Pulitzer prize for music the following year, along with the New York Music Critics Circle Award. It’s hard to imagine a full ballet produced on Coolidge’s modestly-sized stage.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: One of music’s best kept secrets celebrates 100 years, quietly : NPR

#100Years #AaronCopland #CoolidgeAuditorium #Culture #FreeConcerts #Ingenuity #LibraryOfCongress #MarthaGraham #Music #NationalPublicRadio #NPR #TomHuizenga #WeekendEdition

One of music’s best kept secrets celebrates 100 years, quietly – NPR

Music

One of music’s best kept secrets celebrates 100 years, quietly

The story of Coolidge Auditorium, at the Library of Congress, is one of American ingenuity, cultural integrity and a century of free concerts.

October 25, 20258:18 AM ET, Heard on Weekend Edition Saturday

Tom Huizenga 6-Minute Listen Transcript

The year is 1925. The Great Gatsby is published, the jazz age is swinging, and on October 28th, a new concert hall opens at an unlikely spot — the Library of Congress, in Washington D.C. If only its cream-colored walls could talk. For 100 years, performers of all stripes have graced the Library stage, from classical music luminaries like Béla Bartók and Igor Stravinsky to Stevie Wonder, Audra McDonald and Max Roach. Today, it remains one of the capitol city’s most beautiful, best sounding and perhaps best kept secrets.

The idea for a concert hall at the Library of Congress did not stem from congress. It came from philanthropist Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge — and one bespoke piece of bipartisan legislation. “She was indefatigable and intrepid,” says Anne McLean, senior producer for concerts at the Library, “a remarkable woman, six feet tall, a brilliant pianist.” McLean is sitting with me on the stage, overlooking the empty auditorium. To mark the centennial, celebratory concerts and commissions have been heard in the hall all year. But not now. The government shutdown has forced the hall to close its doors, and unless a deal is reached before Tuesday, it’ll be closed on the anniversary itself.

Coolidge was born into a wealthy Chicago family in 1864. She studied music, traveled abroad, married a Harvard-trained orthopedic surgeon and, in 1924, came to Washington to establish a foothold in the nation’s capitol. She approached Carl Engel, the Library’s music chief, about the possibility of adding a small concert hall to the Library’s voluptuous — and voluminous — Thomas Jefferson building, designed after the Paris opera house and completed in 1897. You can’t see the hall from the outside, as it’s tucked inside the building’s Northwest Courtyard.

Eager to get started, Coolidge wrote a check for $60,000 to the Librarian of Congress, Herbert Putnam, on Nov. 12, 1924. And yet there was no legal mechanism in place for a civilian to make such a monetary gift to the U.S. government. Congress worked quickly, taking only a little over a month to pass a bill allowing such a contribution.

It took less than six months to build the hall itself — the intimate, 485-seat Coolidge Auditorium, with its warm precise acoustics. “There are a lot of secrets to it,” McLean says. “The back wall of the auditorium is slightly shaved to be concave and extremely responsive to string sound. Underneath the stage is hollow. But that hollowness is a factor, as is the cork floor, which was very unusual for its time.” McLean says the sound blossoms in the hall. Keen to spread the sound far and wide, Coolidge even had the building wired for the relatively new medium of radio. She added to her initial sum to establish a fund for the commissioning of new music. Engel dubbed her “The Fairy-God-Mother of Music.”

Coolidge was well-connected and fiercely advocated for music. In 1944, she took to the local Washington airwaves with another bold idea. “I could wish for music, the same governmental protection that is given to hygiene, education or public welfare,” she said over WTOP. “How wonderful, if we could have in the cabinet, a secretary of fine arts.”

Coolidge never got her wish, but what she had already created was arguably more important — a living, breathing concert hall that serves as a cultural beacon — preserving history and cultivating new music through commissions.

Perhaps the most famous commission became one of America’s most iconic pieces of music. Aaron Copland‘s ballet Appalachian Spring, written for dancer and choreographer Martha Graham, received its world premiere at Coolidge Auditorium on Oct. 30, 1944. “I think people knew what they were hearing,” McLean says. The ballet would win the Pulitzer prize for music the following year, along with the New York Music Critics Circle Award. It’s hard to imagine a full ballet produced on Coolidge’s modestly-sized stage.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: One of music’s best kept secrets celebrates 100 years, quietly : NPR

#100Years #AaronCopland #CoolidgeAuditorium #Culture #FreeConcerts #Ingenuity #LibraryOfCongress #MarthaGraham #Music #NationalPublicRadio #NPR #TomHuizenga #WeekendEdition

One of music’s best kept secrets celebrates 100 years, quietly – NPR

Music

One of music’s best kept secrets celebrates 100 years, quietly

The story of Coolidge Auditorium, at the Library of Congress, is one of American ingenuity, cultural integrity and a century of free concerts.

October 25, 20258:18 AM ET, Heard on Weekend Edition Saturday

Tom Huizenga 6-Minute Listen Transcript

The year is 1925. The Great Gatsby is published, the jazz age is swinging, and on October 28th, a new concert hall opens at an unlikely spot — the Library of Congress, in Washington D.C. If only its cream-colored walls could talk. For 100 years, performers of all stripes have graced the Library stage, from classical music luminaries like Béla Bartók and Igor Stravinsky to Stevie Wonder, Audra McDonald and Max Roach. Today, it remains one of the capitol city’s most beautiful, best sounding and perhaps best kept secrets.

The idea for a concert hall at the Library of Congress did not stem from congress. It came from philanthropist Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge — and one bespoke piece of bipartisan legislation. “She was indefatigable and intrepid,” says Anne McLean, senior producer for concerts at the Library, “a remarkable woman, six feet tall, a brilliant pianist.” McLean is sitting with me on the stage, overlooking the empty auditorium. To mark the centennial, celebratory concerts and commissions have been heard in the hall all year. But not now. The government shutdown has forced the hall to close its doors, and unless a deal is reached before Tuesday, it’ll be closed on the anniversary itself.

Coolidge was born into a wealthy Chicago family in 1864. She studied music, traveled abroad, married a Harvard-trained orthopedic surgeon and, in 1924, came to Washington to establish a foothold in the nation’s capitol. She approached Carl Engel, the Library’s music chief, about the possibility of adding a small concert hall to the Library’s voluptuous — and voluminous — Thomas Jefferson building, designed after the Paris opera house and completed in 1897. You can’t see the hall from the outside, as it’s tucked inside the building’s Northwest Courtyard.

Eager to get started, Coolidge wrote a check for $60,000 to the Librarian of Congress, Herbert Putnam, on Nov. 12, 1924. And yet there was no legal mechanism in place for a civilian to make such a monetary gift to the U.S. government. Congress worked quickly, taking only a little over a month to pass a bill allowing such a contribution.

It took less than six months to build the hall itself — the intimate, 485-seat Coolidge Auditorium, with its warm precise acoustics. “There are a lot of secrets to it,” McLean says. “The back wall of the auditorium is slightly shaved to be concave and extremely responsive to string sound. Underneath the stage is hollow. But that hollowness is a factor, as is the cork floor, which was very unusual for its time.” McLean says the sound blossoms in the hall. Keen to spread the sound far and wide, Coolidge even had the building wired for the relatively new medium of radio. She added to her initial sum to establish a fund for the commissioning of new music. Engel dubbed her “The Fairy-God-Mother of Music.”

Coolidge was well-connected and fiercely advocated for music. In 1944, she took to the local Washington airwaves with another bold idea. “I could wish for music, the same governmental protection that is given to hygiene, education or public welfare,” she said over WTOP. “How wonderful, if we could have in the cabinet, a secretary of fine arts.”

Coolidge never got her wish, but what she had already created was arguably more important — a living, breathing concert hall that serves as a cultural beacon — preserving history and cultivating new music through commissions.

Perhaps the most famous commission became one of America’s most iconic pieces of music. Aaron Copland‘s ballet Appalachian Spring, written for dancer and choreographer Martha Graham, received its world premiere at Coolidge Auditorium on Oct. 30, 1944. “I think people knew what they were hearing,” McLean says. The ballet would win the Pulitzer prize for music the following year, along with the New York Music Critics Circle Award. It’s hard to imagine a full ballet produced on Coolidge’s modestly-sized stage.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: One of music’s best kept secrets celebrates 100 years, quietly : NPR

#100Years #AaronCopland #CoolidgeAuditorium #Culture #FreeConcerts #Ingenuity #LibraryOfCongress #MarthaGraham #Music #NationalPublicRadio #NPR #TomHuizenga #WeekendEdition

It takes at least six 6️⃣ months to get to #Mars. #Robots 🤖 go first. They scout the terrain, analyze samples, build infrastructure, and pave the way for eventual human 👨‍🚀 arrival.
#Perseverance uses advanced AI to drive autonomously. #Ingenuity uses computer vision to stabilize flight.
#Satellites 🛰️, too, are becoming more #robotic. #InOrbitServicing, once a dream, is now a reality. Robotic spacecraft can refuel ⛽ satellites, repair 🔧 them, or extend their missions https://www.sciencenewstoday.org/how-robotics-is-revolutionizing-space-exploration

#SpaceX uses #Linux 🐧 on the primary flight computers of #Dragon, #Falcon9 and #Starship. A triple redundancy setup allows SpaceX to use fairly off-the-shelf 💵 x86 computing hardware. #NASA’s #Ingenuity is similar (#OTS parts + Linux) https://hackaday.com/2024/02/10/the-usage-of-embedded-linux-in-spacecraft

Approximate locations of Perseverance rover and its sidekick Ingenuity helicopter during Sol 1250 (August 26, 2024) The view is looking due west, and shows the rover climbing up towards the crater rim.

Image credits:
HRSC: ESA/DLR/FU-BERLIN, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
CTX: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
HiRISE: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
HiRISE dataset: Fergason et al., 2020

#Solarocks #Space #Mars #Rover #Perserverance #Ingenuity #helicopter#Vista

The tiny #VTOL Ingenuity was the first ever #aircraft to fly on another planet: https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/six-months-ingenuity. To learn more about the #engineering behind #Ingenuity, there is this great book Planetary Exploration with Ingenuity and Dragonfly available with #AIAA: https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/book/10.2514/4.106378. 🚁🚀 #aerospace #engineering #research #stem #verticalflight #vtol

Broken, but still standing

Ingenuity the little martian helicopter, captured by Perseverance's SuperCam today, Feb. 25

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/LRF_1072_0762099726_099EBY_N0501618SCAM02072_0010I9J

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP

@cnes @IRAP

#ingenuity #mars #perseverance #rover #supercam #ValinorHills #nasa #jpl #caltech #lanl #cnes #irap #space #flight #history #astronomy #astrodon #science #engineering #STEM #photography #spacephotography

The new #MarsGuy Episode takes an in depth look at the damage to Ingenuity's rotor blades.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6r4-rDc-3U

#Mars #NASA #Ingenuity #MarsHelicopter

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@Landru79

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKhN1t_7PEY

#MrMISTER #Ginny #Ingenuity

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#ingenuity #firstflight #mars #rover #wrightbrothers #flighthistory #mars #solarsystem #space #exploration

Scott Manley (I really wish he was here) delivered a great summary of the life of Ingenuity. Did you know that the smol chopper was "the first vehicle to have a flight delayed due to weather on another planet"? Now we know.

#Perserverance #ingenuity #Mars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIrX6gpUxyw

The new video by #MarsGuy looks back at the last couple of flights from #Ingenuity and explores how the rotor accident may have happened. #ThanksIngenuity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btxm0NhaNT0

ᴇʟ ʟᴇɢᴀᴅᴏ ᴅᴇ ɪɴɢᴇɴᴜɪᴛʏ (ɪɪ)

𝙰𝚂Í 𝙷𝙸𝚉𝙾 𝙷𝙸𝚂𝚃𝙾𝚁𝙸𝙰 𝙴𝚂𝚃𝙴 𝙿𝙴𝚀𝚄𝙴ñ𝙾 𝙶𝚁𝙰𝙽 𝙸𝙽𝙶𝙴𝙽𝙸𝙾

'En honor a #Ingenuity realizamos este gráfico resumiendo sus logros como primer helicóptero en otro planeta. #Ginny #Perseverance'

► https://twitter.com/SpaceIntel101/status/1750937261435166908

@spaceintel101

@nasapersevere @nasawebb @nasahistory
@nasa

#Ciencia #Tecnología
#Science #Technology
#NASA #JPL #Perseverance #Marte #Mars

It's now Sol 1038 of the Mars2020 mission, and local Mars time is 21:09:42.

This is a weather report for the past 7 sols for Jezero, Mars, using data from the #MEDA instrument aboard #Perseverance.

Report Sol: 1036
Ls: 183.5°

Ranges
Temperature:
Highs: -11.4 to -6°C
Lows: -75.1 to -73°C

Pressure:
644.3 to 648.8 Pa

Minimum air density:
0.0126 to 0.0129 kg/m³ (#Ingenuity should be flying at high rpm)

(IANAM. Report by Little Assistant™)

#MarsWeather #Mars2020 #NASA #solarocks #Space

It's now Sol 1032 of the Mars2020 mission, and local Mars time is 01:42:31.

This is a weather report for Jezero, Mars, using data from the #MEDA instrument aboard #Perseverance.

Report Sol: 1029
Ls: 179.4°

Temperature ranges in the past 6 sols:
Highs: -10.2 to -5.5°C
Lows: -74.5 to -72.2°C

Atmospheric density, a parameter that influences #Ingenuity's flights, is 0.0127kg/m3, still much lower that the 0.0145kg/m3 required for normal rotor rpm.

#MarsWeather #Mars2020 #NASA #solarocks #Space

Awesome new #MarsGuy episode about the record breaking #MarsHelicopter Flight 59!
I may be biased though, because I processed the images for this one :)
https://youtu.be/GIABf416dBQ

#Ingenuity #Perseverance #Mars2020 #Mars #NASA #Solarocks