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- The Perseverance rover draws on the NASA – and scientific – spirit of overcoming challenges. The rover has a tough mission. Not only does it have to land on a treacherous planet, it has to work on its science goals: searching for signs of ancient microbial life, characterizing the planet’s geology and climate, collecting carefully selected rock and sediment samples for future return to Earth, and paving the way for human exploration beyond the Moon.
- Perseverance builds on the lessons of other Mars rovers. NASA’s modest first rover – Sojourner – demonstrated in 1997 that a robot could rove on the Red Planet.
- The rover will be landing in a place with high potential for finding signs of past microbial life. Jezero Crater is 28 miles (45 kilometers) wide and sits on the western edge of Isidis Planitia, a giant basin just north of the Martian equator dug out long ago when a space rock hit the surface.
- Perseverance will also be collecting important data about Mars’ geology and climate. Mars orbiters have been collecting images and other data from Jezero Crater from about 200 miles (322 kilometers) above, but finding signs of ancient life on the surface will require much closer inspection.
Feb 18, 2021 · A supersonic parachute will help slow Mars 2020's atmospheric descent to about 200 mph (320 km/h). ... More than 3.5 billion years ago, Jezero hosted a lake about the size of Lake Tahoe, as well ...
Jul 30, 2020 · Jezero Crater tells a story of the on-again, off-again nature of the wet past of Mars. More than 3.5 billion years ago, river channels spilled over the crater wall and created a lake. Scientists see evidence that water carried clay minerals from the surrounding area into the crater lake.
Feb 11, 2021 · "These surfaces could have formed over 3 billion years ago, as much as 500 million years older than previously thought. ... How Mars 2020 will help bring part of the red planet back to Earth. Feb ...
Jun 12, 2019 · Humans exploring the Red Planet will need more than good spacesuits; they’ll need a place to live. Mars 2020 will collect science that may help engineers design better shelters for future astronauts. Like NASA’s Curiosity rover and InSight lander, 2020 has weather instruments to study how dust and radiation behave in all seasons.
The launch of Mars 2020 was the third of three space missions sent toward Mars during the July 2020 Mars launch window, with missions also launched by the national space agencies of the United Arab Emirates (the Emirates Mars Mission with the orbiter Hope on July 19, 2020) and China (the Tianwen-1 mission on July 23, 2020, with an orbiter, deployable and remote cameras, lander, and Zhurong rover).
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Jun 12, 2019 · Every landing on Mars offers a learning opportunity. With Mars 2020, that includes how the spacecraft's heat shield and parachute perform in the planet's atmosphere, and how well its radar can sense the approaching surface. Sensors in the spacecraft's aeroshell (the capsule that encloses the rover) will study how it heats up and performs during ...
