In The News: College of Sciences
NASA’s Perseverance Rover spent seven months traveling 292 million miles to Mars.
NASA made history Thursday afternoon as the Perseverance rover landed on Mars, and two professors at UNLV played a part in it.
NASA made history Thursday afternoon as the Perseverance rover landed on Mars, and two professors at UNLV played a part in it.
Two UNLV scientists working on NASA’s new mission to Mars survived “seven minutes of terror” Thursday as they watched the Perseverance rover’s perilous but perfect landing on the red planet.
Two UNLV scientists working on NASA’s new mission to Mars survived “seven minutes of terror” Thursday as they watched the Perseverance rover’s perilous but perfect landing on the red planet.
Two UNLV scientists working on NASA's new mission to Mars survived the "seven minutes of terror" Thursday as they watched the dangerous but perfect landing of the Perseverance rover on the red planet.
Two UNLV scientists working on NASA's new mission to Mars survived the "seven minutes of terror" Thursday as they watched the dangerous but perfect landing of the Perseverance rover on the red planet.
Today, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, released the following statement applauding news that the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has awarded the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) a grant totaling $2,000,000 to support research and development in nuclear science, engineering, and security.
UNLV is one of 11 universities that will receive a federal grant totaling $25 million to support research and development in nuclear science, engineering and security.
If all goes right, Thursday the Perseverance Rover will be safely on Martian ground, where it can begin searching for signs of ancient life, and collecting and storing rock and soil samples.