The NASA Perseverance rover safely landed on Mars after its 292.5 million-mile journey from Earth, the agency confirmed at 3:55 p.m. ET Thursday. The rover landed itself flawlessly, according to the mission’s team.
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New Postcard From Mars: NASA Releases Landing Site Panorama Taken By Perseverance Rover.
The rover will characterize the planet’s geology and past climate and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith, paving the way for human exploration of the Red Planet.
It is India‘s first interplanetary mission and it made it the fourth space agency to achieve Mars orbit, after Roscosmos, NASA, and the European Space Agency. It made India the first Asian nation to reach Martian orbit and the first nation in the world to do so on its maiden attempt.
some photos are from 6 years ago.
There’s a new robot on the surface of Mars. The American space agency has successfully landed its Perseverance rover in a deep crater near the planet’s equator called Jezero. But we shouldn’t forget that the existing robot, Curiosity, is still there and working well following its landing in equatorial Gale Crater back in 2012
The NASA scientists said that with the rover’s Mastcam-Z, the robotic astrobiologists can provide a detailed examination of both close and distant objects. The cameras will also help scientists to assess the geologic history and atmospheric conditions of Jezero Crater and will assist in identifying rocks and sediment worthy of a closer look by the rover’s other instruments. Additionally, the camera system can even reveal details as small as 0.1 to 0.2 inches across near the rover and 6.5 to 10 feet across in the distant slopes along the horizon.
A key objective for Perseverance’s mission on Mars is astrobiology which includes the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet’s geology and past climate and will pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet. This mission is the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith. Check out the perseverance images of the same below.
