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Perseverance rover was discovered by NASA’s U.S. space agency about 6.5 meters (21.3 feet) long two weeks after landing on Mars on February 18th.
Anais Zarifian, one of the Sustainability engineers, said she was pleased with the rover’s move and said the tire tracks left by the rover on Mars are still visible.
Persistence successfully hit the surface of Mars on February 18 at the end of a journey of about seven months covering a distance of 470 million kilometers (over 292 million miles) after it was launched from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in state of Florida, USA on June 30, 2020.
NASA announced on Feb. 18 that Perseverance had safely erupted at the 28-mile-wide depression that is thought to be home to a large lake – and possibly microbial life – according to the space agency.
The rover will begin the process of collecting rock core samples that will be stored in metal pipes for return to Earth on future missions.
The examples are important in understanding whether there was once life on the planet the US now hopes to send people to as early as the 2030s.
The most exciting vehicle ever sent to Mars was built in NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in California and will run on plutonium fuel.
The space agency announced that $ 2.4 billion has been spent on infrastructure work to carry out the new mission on the red planet, and $ 300 million on the system that allowed the vehicle to land and operation.
Persistence, which has a chemical analyzer, 20 cameras, a rock drill to collect samples, an artificial arm, and a helicopter called Ingenuity, are expected to stay on Mars for two years for exploration activity.
* Written by Dilan Pamuk
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