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Feb 26, 2021 · NASA expects to spend $2.7 billion on the project according to research from The Planetary society, a figure that is expected to rise to $2.9 billion when inflation adjustments are included at the end of its lifespan.
Oct 5, 2024 · Raw images of Mars taken by the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity Mars helicopter in Jezero Crater.
- 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...
Feb 19, 2021 · After safely landing on the surface of Mars Thursday, NASA’s Perseverance rover has sent back a never-before-seen view: what it looks like to land on Mars. The rover also returned some...
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...
Sep 23, 2021 · Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera system to create this enhanced-color panorama, which scientists used to look for rock-sampling sites. The panorama is stitched together from 70 individual images taken on July 28, 2021, the 155th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
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May 20, 2021 · NASA's Perseverance rover has been on the surface of Mars since February of 2021, joining NASA's Curiosity rover, which has been studying the Red Planet since 2012. Perseverance is now beginning to ramp up its science mission on Mars while preparing to collect samples that will be returned to Earth on a future mission.
