It’s only been a few weeks since NASA’s Perseverance rover landed safely on Mars. The mission almost left Earth due to the pandemic of the coronavirus but NASA was able to launch the launch at the last minute and, after months of travel, at the rover landed perfectly. Of course, the main thing a rover has to do is, well, rove, so it’s nice to see that NASA’s Jet Dedication Laboratory posted a picture of the high-tech robot tracks in Martian dusty soil.
The rover spent most of his first two-ish weeks proving he was still healthy. After such a long journey through space and landing on another planet, the rover could have experienced any form of component failures, thus checking all the systems first on a list NASA. A clean sheet of the rover’s instruments was handed over and, after receiving an order to take the first “steps” on Mars, it traveled over the surface.
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As NASA’s Jet Deployment Laboratory explains in a new blog post, the rover traveled 21. 3 feet. That may not look like much but that was the last test that showed that all aspects of the rover are working as expected. Now that it’s clear that the rover is ready for anything Mars can throw at it, the real fun can begin.
“When it comes to wheeled vehicles on other planets, there aren’t many events for the first time that are significant in the importance of first driving,” Anais Zarifian, Mars 2020 motion test bed engineer, said in a statement. “This was our first opportunity to ‘kick the tires’ and take out Perseverance for spinning. The rover’s six-wheeler responded very well. We are now confident that our drive system is good to go, able to take us wherever science leads us over the next two years. “
The rover is easily the most impressive piece of technology ever sent to Mars, and will be able to explore the planet in a way that has never been done before. The robot will be able to navigate the planet for large areas at once, with NASA planning on the rover surveying for up to 200 meters (656 feet) at a time before waiting for additional orders.
In addition to any scientific discoveries that the rover can make on its own – and we can assume that it will do many of them – the mission will also be the starting point for the first Mars sample return mission that NASA attempted to never. The rover will display sample capsules that will be picked up later and returned to Earth with subsequent missions. By getting samples of the Red Planet into a laboratory on Earth, we may find even more interesting results, but we have to wait for those at this point.
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Mike Wehner has been reporting on technology and video games for the past decade, covering breaking news and trends in VR, wearables, smartphones, and the future of tech. Mike was most recently a Tech Editor at The Daily Dot, and has appeared in USA Today, Time.com, and in countless web and print outlets. His love of narrating only second place on his game thesis.