NASA Mars rover | NASA’s 2020 ‘Perseverance’ Mars rover ready to hunt for life on the red planet; successful dry race

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) is preparing for the launch of its rover Perseverance Mars 2020 in full swing. As the launch window that is scheduled for July 17 and August 5 approaches, NASA makes sure the rover is ready to hunt down alien life on Mars and test it, scientists put the rover on a dry race at Flanders Ranges In South Australia.

Although conditions on the red planet will not be similar to those at Flinders Ranges, astrobiologist Bonnie Teece of the University of New South Wales says Ranges is a “reasonable analog for Mars due to dry, dusty wind and wind.” swept terrain. “

And the results of this dry test showed that the technology used in NASA’s Perseverance Mars 2020 rover works well and that it has everything in the right place to explore Mars yet to be explored. An article published in the journal Astrobiology suggests that “technology goes out of style”.

“We wanted to use the same techniques that are in the Rover to identify the best areas to search for life and demonstrate that these techniques work well together,” said astrobiologist Teece.

Things you should know about NASA’s Mars 2020 rover

• The rover will launch between July 17 and August 5, 2020, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
• Its landing date is scheduled for February 18, 2021.
• It will explore the Jezero crater on Mars for a duration of approximately 687 Earth days, which is almost 22 months.
• The main objective of the scout vehicle is to examine the oxygen production of the red planet’s atmosphere, obtain samples of rock and soil and store them on the Martian surface, look for signs of possible past microbial life in those habitable environments, and identify capable past environments. of supporting microbes. lifetime.