(Photo: NASA / JPL-Caltech)
In this photo, NASA’s Mars 2020 rover is using his drill to establish a rock sample on Mars. The rover will collect and store rock and earth samples on the planet’s surface that will receive future missions back and return to Earth.
A robotic astrobiologist embarked on a trip to a distant planet in July 2020. NASA’s permanency rover, expected to arrive on the Red Planet by February 2021, is already on its way to Mars.
The project runs for seven years and will allow a unique study of Mars, which may have been home to billions of years ago.
What is perseverance going to do on Mars?
Perseverance aims to find answers to ancient life on Mars. These suggestions may help scientists to understand the time of the planet, thinking that they were once a humid, fully inhabited environment. Martian samples would also be collected by the rover, keeping them away for a possible ground trip.
This is how the robot, which is the equivalent of one Martian year, would go on its long journey to Mars.
1. Perseverance comes ashore in the Jezero crack
The Jezero Crater, a 500-meter-deep crater located in a hollow just north of the Martian equator, is the landing site of Perseverance. Formerly the host of a lake that was estimated to have dried up 3.5 to 3.8 billion years ago, Jezero Crater makes it an excellent destination for the discovery of a prehistoric, microscopic life that may once have lived on Mars.
2. Seven minutes of horror
Arrivals of the Perseverance rover arriving and landing on Mars called the “seven minutes of horror.” That is how long it takes for the rover to get to the surface from the top of the Martian atmosphere. It will also give the team an extra 14 minutes to get a signal from a Mars rover, as there is a gap as Mars is millions of miles away.
3. Sustainability looking for old microbial knowledge
While on Mars, the rover would look for evidence of Martian surface residence and past microbial life, capture rock and ground samples and set them aside for the first time a sample return. that planet. Using a handy drill mounted on the robot arm can collect at least 20 samples from Mars. The rock samples would be deposited in tubs on a Martian surface in a known position and left there until they returned to Earth.
4. Perseverance does not permeate
Perseverance does not venture alone to Mars. The Ingenuity helicopter would hit the rover for a flight, allowing NASA to assess its ability to operate a helicopter for the first time on a world other than Earth. An ingenuity flies by itself in a series of test trips after parting with the rover.
5. Persistence has a top-of-the-line tool
A team of well-trained detectors are on board the rover: equipment such as SHERLOC (Scanning Environmental Areas with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals) and WATSON, Topographic Angle Sensor and e-Engineering Platform. In Martian soil, they look for tiny clues.
6. Perseverance loses ground work for human discovery
The project would also assess requirements for future human colonization of Mars by studying the Martian atmospheric system for oxygen production, identifying environmental conditions such as Martian water and dust, and detecting resources.
On February 18, 2021, perseverance will come to Mars. It follows the rover Curiosity, which landed on Mars in August 2012 and crosses the Red Planet today.
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