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All previous Mars missions have cost billions of dollars — even some that launched five decades ago — and Perseverance is no different. NASA expects to spend $2.9 billion, according to The Planetary Society –adjusted with inflation — by the end of its lifespan.
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Dec 28, 2021 · A new record for the longest drive in a Martian day. Six samples and counting of Martian rock and atmosphere that could eventually be brought to Earth for further study. More than 50 gigabytes of science data. More than 100,000 images returned, including two "selfies"
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Dec 28, 2021 · What has NASA’s Perseverance rover accomplished since landing on the surface of Mars in February 2021? Surface Operations Mission Manager Jessica Samuels reflects on a year filled with groundbreaking discoveries at Jezero Crater and explains the next phase of the mission.
- Solar System and Beyond. Prior to the targeted Dec. 24 launch of the Webb Telescope, NASA this year completed testing and sent the telescope on a 5,800 mile journey by sea to its launch site in French Guiana.
- NASA Climate, Earth Science. In 2021, NASA’s climate research continued to show how the planet is changing as the agency maintained its role as a leader in understanding climate change.
- Humans in Space. This was the 21st continuous year of human presence aboard the International Space Station, and the busiest yet. NASA continues to send astronauts to the orbiting laboratory using commercial spacecraft launched from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, as well as Russian Soyuz capsules launched from Kazakhstan.
- Moon to Mars. The agency is targeting launch of Artemis I, an uncrewed flight test of NASA’s powerful Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft that will travel around the Moon in March or April 2022.
- Taking The Long View
- Closer to Home
- Even Closer
- Volcanic Grains?
- First Sample Attempt
- In The Wind
Before the rover landed, the Perseverance team knew that Jezero crater looked like the dry basin of an ancient lake, with a river delta flowing into it. The prospect of finding preserved lake floor sediments made the site good for searching for past life, one of the mission’s primary goals. Perseverance took this snapshot March 17 of a steep slope ...
Even eroded outcrops close to Perseverance’s landing site look like they had a watery history. This image of a remnant of part of the delta rising out of the crater floor was taken with Perseverance’s Mastcam-Z camera February 22. “Many of us expected these outcrops to be quite uninteresting, based on orbital data,” Stack Morgan says. But images fr...
Perseverance is taking close-ups of the rocks around it too. This closeup image of a rock nicknamed “Foux” was taken July 11 using the WATSON camera on the end of the rover’s robotic arm. The area in the image is only about 4 centimeters by 3 centimeters. The textures in this image are fascinating, as are the “crazy red coatings” that are more purp...
Perseverance has also found evidence of igneous, or volcanic, rocks on Jezero’s crater floor. That wasn’t surprising — observations from orbit suggested that volcanic rocks should be there, and scientists hoped to pick up some to help researchers back on Earth figure out the rocks’ absolute ages. Right now, the timing of past events on Mars is base...
That same rock carried more surprises when the rover team tried to drill into it August 6. The drill worked perfectly, to the team’s elation. “One of the most complex robotic systems ever designed and executed worked perfectly with no faults the first time,” Stack Morgan says. “We were like ‘Oh my god, this is amazing.’” But when they looked inside...
Mars may have had lakes and rivers in its past, but today the dry, dusty landscape is shaped mostly by wind (SN: 7/14/20). Perseverance has seen a number of dust devils and windstorms sweep through Jezero crater as a beautiful reminder of how environments are always changing, even on a dried-up planet like Mars. “We often think of Mars as this barr...
Dec 28, 2021 · NASA’s Perseverance rover has been busy since its harrowing touchdown in Mars’ Jezero Crater this past February. In the 10 months since, the car-size rover has driven 1.8 miles (2.9 kilometers), set a record for the longest rover drive in a Martian day, taken more than 100,000 images, and collected six samples of Martian rock and atmosphere ...
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Feb 18, 2022 · Through a collaboration between NASA and the ESA, future missions will send spacecraft to collect the sealed samples from Mars’s surface and return them to Earth. Photograph by NASA/JPL-Caltech...
