Perseverance - Blog Posts
It's frustrating isn't it?
To have worked so hard and to only produce nothing.
To have to work so hard each day and only realise that what you've been working on hasn't been producing fruit
To see others achieving so much and you have nothing to show for it.
But you have to realise it was never about you and them.
It's always been you and you.
Maybe this phase is not about producing a certain outcome, maybe it's about just experimenting in order to get feedback.
Maybe this phase is only meant to last a year or two. So that you can see if what you've been pursuing was what you wanted or not.
Sometimes it's not about the outcome. It's about proving to yourself that you can do hard things. That you can be persistent and that you can be disciplined.
So how about just focusing on the joy of it. The parts of it you enjoy so much.
Like when you're eating your favourite meal. You don't only eat to satiate yourself but you also eat to enjoy it. To get that peak experience of savouring all the flavours and textures.
Después de llegar al cráter Jezero en Marte, Perseverance dio una vuelta el 4 de marzo. Esta imagen afilada de la Navcam del rover del coche muestra las pistas dejadas por sus ruedas en el suelo.
En preparación para las operaciones en la superficie del planeta rojo, su primer viaje duró unos 33 minutos. En una corta y exitosa prueba de conducir Perseverance avanzó 4 metros, dio un giro de 150 grados, respaldado por 2.5 metros, y ahora ocupa una plaza de estacionamiento diferente en su recién bautizada Octavia E. Butler, lugar de aterrizaje. Aunque la distancia total de viaje de la primera salida del rover fue de unos 6.5 metros (21 pies), se pueden esperar viajes regulares de 200 metros o más en el futuro.
Crédito: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Mars 2020
Esta es la primera imagen del Rover Perseverance de la NASA en la superficie de Marte desde la cámara del Experimento de Imágenes de Alta Resolución (HiRISE) a bordo del Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) de la NASA muestra las muchas partes del sistema de aterrizaje de la misión Marte 2020 que puso al rover a salvo en tierra. La imagen fue tomada el 19 de febrero de 2021.
My mars gremlins,,,
Will be looking forward to it!
That’s a wrap! Thank you all very much for the wonderful questions.
We’re so excited to send Perseverance off on her journey to Mars, and we will be launching on July 30 at 7:50 a.m. EDT from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
If today’s Answer Time got you excited, team up with us to #CoutdownToMars! We created a virtual Mars photo booth, 3D rover experience and more for you to put your own creative touch on sending Perseverance well wishes for her launch to the Red Planet! View them all, HERE.
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"Always wake up with a smile knowing that today you are going to be a step closer to your goals. Think positive!" - Mark Cuban 💪🏼
Allow us to reintroduce someone … the name’s Perseverance.
With this new name, our Mars 2020 rover has now come to life! Chosen by middle school student Alex Mather, Perseverance helps to remind ourselves that no matter what obstacles we face, whether it’s on the way to reaching our goals or on the way to Mars, we will push through. In Alex’s own words,
“We are a species of explorers, and we will meet many setbacks on the way to Mars. However, we can persevere. We, not as a nation but as humans, will not give up. The human race will always persevere into the future.”
Welcome to the family. ❤️
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All the Human Souls
Ever since I played Undertale, I’ve been trying to imagine what the other children might have looked like before Asgore took their souls. So here’s my interpretation.
Perseverance by Wayne Pinkston Via Flickr: Website, Instagram, Facebook This is one of my favorite photos of this past summer. The photo is not really spectacular or anything like that, but this Ancient Bristlecone Pine looks like it has borne the weight of the world for millennia. I suspect it is several millennia old at least. It has taken all the abuse the earth could throw at it yet it persists, bent but not broken. In fact it seems to be quite healthy with a lot of foliage not shown here. Is there any better life lesson to learn? ________________________________________________ Low Level Lightening (LLL) used for lighting. A single Cineroid LED light panel was used, set on a 10 ft. (3 meter) light stand about 100 feet (30 meters) away, off to the left side. The light was turned all the way to low and set at a relatively neutral to slightly warm color temperature of 4200K. ________________________________________________11 light frames and one dark frame stacked in Starry Landscape Stacker. 14-24 mm lens, 20 mm, f/2.8, ISO 8000.
It's my 10 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳
The world has become a bit of a maddening place since I joined. But I was also merely the tender age of 16, so perhaps a part of it is just my worldview shifting as I became an adult.
A hell of a lot has happened to this platform specifically, as well. From porn bans to bots to bigot footholds. But I made some pretty nice pals along the way. I wish I'd kept in touch with more of them, but that's kind of been a problem I've had since I was very small; great at making friends, slow at keeping up with them.
A whole decade of social media... It's hard to say what parts I regret and what parts I don't.
Could I have focused more on my academics if I didn't get into social media at all? Considering my ADD and depression, chances looked a bit slim.
If I had somehow managed, would I be in a better place than I am now? Considering the state of both the gaming and animation industries, quite unlikely.
I still don't exactly know where I want to go in life. I've become hesitant to dream of opportunities where things work out, since I've had so many cases where those dreams popped like bubbles. I have fictional worlds for both games and cartoons, but I feel like I have to keep holding onto them so tightly; I want to find a circle where I can discuss them and finally get the creative collaboration I've been yearning for for the past eight years, where I can become part of a team with all this, but I'm terrified of how much these realms have grown to become so anti-story and pro-censorship. I'm terrified of those who would feign friendly acceptance, only to proceed to tear my worlds apart and either demand that it all be made their way, or leave it in such a development/legal stasis that it essentially is killed.
But back to Tumblr.
This truly has been an artists' platform, and even in its greatly deteriorated state, there are still such wonderful creators of all media all over the place.
I shall not leave unless I am forced to. I wish I could stand with you all and hold you tight and feel your love.
The Earth will spin and live on just as she always has. May we all live with her.
Warm Regards,
Max