On Mars, man is writing history again. Rover Perseverance will look for traces of past life, as well as interesting rock patterns, and ‘store’ them in a pile that the next mission in 2025 is expected to bring to Earth. In this way, we will be able to analyze samples of rocks from Mars in laboratories on Earth, which, as experts predict, will be a remarkable achievement of science. Rover is already sending the first photos from the Red Planet: “Are they volcanic or sedimentary rocks? What stories do they tell us.
Seven minutes of horror, as the US space agency Nasa called the landing maneuver of the rover Perseverance (Perseverance) on Mars, turned into long hours of joy. The landing in the crater, named Jezero after a place in Bosnia and Herzegovina, was flawless according to the information known so far, and the rover was undamaged.
Rover Perseverance has successfully passed a nearly seven-month journey from Earth to the Red Planet. It is the fifth, most sophisticated NASA rover, which will search for traces of life on Mars, and at the same time will pave the way so that man may also step on it in the future.
The 1040-kilogram vehicle, which was thoroughly cleaned before its journey into space, will look for possible signs of life on the Red Planet and study its atmosphere and geology. The fifth and most technologically advanced NASA rover on Mars has been assembled in NASA's laboratory in California, and its mission is expected to last two years. It is equipped with more than 20 cameras and a number of scientific instruments for measuring geology and collecting samples that NASA wants to return to Earth someday. The rover is as big as a small passenger car, has a robotic arm with a range of about two meters, equipped with a camera, a drill bit for drilling into Mars and a small chemical laboratory. Rover Perseverance is only a few inches larger than NASA's previous rover on Mars Curiosity, but it weighs about a hundred kilograms and, unlike other rovers, has microphones that will transmit sounds from Mars to Earth for the first time ever. After Mars or the crater Jezero, which is supposed to be the remnant of a former river delta, will move to nuclear power and look for signs of life that scientists estimate could have flourished on Mars some three or four billion years ago.
However, the rover also brought a mini helicopter with it, and if it is successful, it will be the first time that something will fly on another planet. Named Ingenuity, it was attached to the rover's chassis and weighed only 1.8 kilograms, so the achievement is that it can fly. Whether it will also fly successfully to Mars will be known in a few days.
Rover Landing Perseverance is already the third visit to Mars from Earth in the last week. Two probes from the United Arab Emirates and China arrived in orbit last week. The Chinese vessel also has a smaller rover that will also look for signs of life if it makes a successful landing on Mars in May or June. NASA has very ambitious plans with the perseverance rover, as it wants to transfer the once collected samples from Mars to Earth in cooperation with the European Space Agency (ESA). Rover Mission Perseverance is estimated at three billion dollars.
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