The Mars Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Mars 2020 orbit is expected to land on Mars Thursday after traveling for more than six and a half months through space. The spacecraft will land in Jezero’s crater on the planet, as confirmed by engineers who were in charge of the mission from NASA’s Jet Dedication Laboratory in Southern California.
The land at the Jezero crater makes it the most difficult trip on Mars because it has steep cliffs, sand dunes and boulder fields. If the entrance is successful, the team handling the mission will know seven minutes after the tour. This time has also been described as “seven minutes of horror” by some mission-related engineers.
The Perseverance rover gets rid of the extra cargo first and into the top of the Martian atmosphere at 19,500 km per hour. NASA’s Mars Ingenuity helicopter will also be attached. The spacecraft heats up to 1,300-degrees Celsius before it can use the parachute. Despite high temperatures, the rover will stay safe as it is protected by an aeroshell keeping it at room temperature.
Nearly 20 seconds after the parachute is out, the base of the capsule separates on its own and then the rover uses the land-friendly navigation technology to find a place for safe landing. Once the landing site is identified, the rover gets rid of the parachute and uses retrorockets to fly to it. Eventually, the rover will fly at a speed of 2.7 km per hour and then go down to the ground.
There is very little mission control that can be done to help move the land of Perseverance as it uses pre-planned landing instructions. The rover spends up to 687 days on Mars collecting samples and examining the Jezero crater, which helps trace the crater’s history. He also posts pictures of the planet. On the other hand, an Ingenuity Mars helicopter will collect samples from locations where the rover will not reach.