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Jul 30, 2020 · Seek signs of ancient life and collect samples of rock and regolith for possible Earth return. This animated orbital-map view shows the route NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has taken since its February 2021 landing at Jezero Crater to July 2024, when it took its “Cheyava Falls” sample.
- How Will Perseverance Land on Mars?
NASA's new science rover – Perseverance – is on final...
- How Will Perseverance Land on Mars?
Feb 17, 2021 · NASA's new science rover – Perseverance – is on final approach to Mars. Feb. 17, 2021: Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have confirmed that the spacecraft is healthy and on target to touch down in Jezero Crater at around 3:55 p.m. EST (12:55 p.m. PST) on Feb. 18, 2021.
Confirmation that the rover successfully landed on Mars was received on February 18, 2021, at 20:55 UTC. [4][5] As of 17 November 2024, Perseverance has been active on Mars for 1332 sols (1,368 Earth days, or 3 years, 8 months and 30 days) since its landing.
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- Perseverance is searching for signs of ancient life. While the surface of Mars is a frozen desert today, scientists have learned from previous NASA missions that the Red Planet once hosted running water and warmer environments at the surface that could have supported microbial life.
- The rover is landing in a place with a high potential for finding these signs of past microbial life. Terrain that is interesting to scientists can be challenging to land on.
- Perseverance is also collecting important data about Mars’ geology and climate. Context is everything. Mars orbiters have been collecting images and data from Jezero Crater from about 200 miles (322 kilometers) above, but finding signs of ancient life on the surface requires much closer inspection.
- Perseverance is the first leg of a round trip to Mars. The verification of ancient life on Mars carries an enormous burden of proof. Perseverance is the first rover to bring a sample caching system to Mars in order to package promising samples for return to Earth by a future mission.
Jul 24, 2023 · NASA's Perseverance rover is busy just exploring Mars, looking for signs of ancient life. Perseverance, nicknamed "Percy", the centerpiece of NASA's $2.7 billion Mars 2020 mission, touched down...
Jul 30, 2020 · Perseverance is investigating Jezero Crater – a region of Mars where the ancient environment may have been favorable for microbial life – probing the Martian rocks for evidence of past life. The rover carries an entirely new subsystem to collect and prepare Martian rocks and sediment samples that includes a coring drill on its arm and a ...
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Feb 18, 2021 · But before it can get started on any of that groundbreaking work, Perseverance must ace its touchdown inside Mars' Jezero Crater on Feb. 18. There's no guarantee that the rover will survive...
