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Perseverance isn't the first robot to document its arrival on Mars. The six-wheeled robot's predecessor, NASA's Curiosity rover, captured imagery of its own "seven minutes of terror" touchdown in August 2012. (It takes NASA spacecraft about seven minutes to reach the surface after hitting the top of the Martian atmosphere, and the trip down is haza...
Perseverance is the centerpiece of NASA's $2.7 billion Mars 2020 mission, which is pushing the boundaries of exploration in multiple ways. The six-wheeled rover will hunt for signs of ancient organisms on the floor of Jezero, which harbored a lake and a river delta billions of years ago. No robot has searched for life on the Martian surface since N...
Then there are the microphones. Perseverance totes two— the EDL mic and another in its rock-zapping SuperCam instrument. Taking microphones to Mars isn't new; NASA's Mars Polar Lander spacecraft sported a mic, and the agency's Phoenix landerhad one built into its descent camera. But neither of those instruments returned any Martian sounds. Mars Pol...
Perseverance is not yet ready to start its science work in earnest; the Mars 2020 team is still in the process of checking out the rover's instruments and subsystems. The news so far is very good on this front. "I am happy to report that Perseverance is healthy," Perseverance surface mission manager Jessica Samuels, also of JPL, which manages the M...
Feb 22, 2021 · On Monday, NASA released a short video captured by the agency’s Perseverance spacecraft as it dropped through the Martian atmosphere on Thursday last week, ending with the successful arrival of...
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- Kenneth Chang
Feb 22, 2021 · NASA will hold a virtual briefing at 2 p.m. EST (11 a.m. PST) today to unveil the “How to Land on Mars” video, which will present first-of-its-kind footage the Perseverance rover captured as it touched down on the Red Planet Feb. 18.
Dec 21, 2020 · Perseverance will seek signs of ancient microbial life on Mars, collect and cache Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and dust), characterize the planet's geology and climate, and pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet.
