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After about six months of flight time, the US rover. Perseverance landed successfully on Mars on Thursday. The NASA robot, launched in late July 2020 from the Cape Canaveral spaceport, landed around 10 p.m. German time with a risky maneuver in a dry lake called Jezero Crater that had never been examined at the site.
The car, which costs around 2.2 billion euros and whose name means endurance in German, has been developed and manufactured for eight years. It will look for traces of previous microbial life on Mars, as well as investigate the planet’s climate and geology.
The roughly 1,000-kilogram robot the size of a small car has seven scientific instruments, 23 cameras and a laser on board. The rover should allow numerous NASA premieres: for the first time with Perseverance The microphones sent to Mars, for the first time a small helicopter and, for the first time, samples from Mars, will be returned to Earth in a mission developed jointly with the European space agency Esa.
Perseverance It is the fifth rover that NASA has brought to Mars; the last one was in 2012 Curiosity. Overall, less than half of all Mars missions launched worldwide have been successful so far. Last week, space probes, first from the United Arab Emirates and then from China, were successfully placed in the orbit of the planet. Al-Amal, The UAE probe is not supposed to land, the Chinese spacecraft landing Tianwen 1 It is scheduled in two or three months.
