The Perseverance Rover can travel up to 200 meters a day, but scientists need to do tests and safety checks before proceeding.
NASA’s Mars rover Personavers has taken its first, shortest drive to the surface of the Red Planet, a picture of a gigantic crater on the floor in a picture of a robot science lab અઠવા two weeks after a full touchdown, mission managers said Friday.
On Thursday, two weeks after landing on the Red Planet to get clues to past life, the Perseverance Rover ventured out of its landing position for the first time.
Following instructions from mission managers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) near Los Angeles, the rover spun four meters (13.1 feet) forward, turned about 150 degrees to its left, and then moved backwards for a total of 2.5 meters (8.2 feet). 6.5 meters (21.3 feet), an ancient, long-lost lake bed and a river delta on Mars during a half-hour test in the Jezero Crater.
“It went very well,” J.P.L. Anees Zarifian, an engineer for mobility testing, told reporters during a teleconference that it was a “huge target” for the mission.
The rounded, rear and rear drive lasted only 33 minutes and ran so well that the six-wheeled rover got back on the move on Friday.
He is able to drive an average of 200 meters in a day.
An image obtained directly from NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover on the surface of Mars on February 22, 2021 shows the rover using a down-look camera. [File: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Handout via Reuters]
NASA displayed a photo taken by the rover, showing traces of wheel movement in red, sandy Martian soil after the first drive.
Another vivid picture of the surrounding landscape shows a large, dark rock-filled rugged terrain at the front, and an outcrop of rocky, layered deposits in the distance – marking the edge of the river delta.
I’m on the move! Just took my first test drive on Mars, covering about 16 feet (5 meters). You are seeing the very beginning of my wheel track. Many more to create. pic.twitter.com/7tFIwWFfJ4
– NASA’s Firm Mars Rover March 5, 2021
According to Deputy Mission Manager Robert Hogg, so far, including his main robot arm, his hardware seems to be working flawlessly.
But before JPL engineers have yet to test additional devices to run on many of Rover’s equipment, it will be ready to send Robot on a more ambitious journey as part of its primary mission to find traces of its fossil microbial life.
The team has pending post-landing tests of Rover’s state-of-the-art system to drill and store rock specimens to return to Earth through future Mars missions.
The deck of NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover, featuring a planetary instrument for X-ray lithochemistry in one of its orbital arms, can be seen in an image taken by the rover’s research camera on Tuesday, February 20, 2021. [File: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Handout via Reuters]
As soon as the system investigates diligently, the rover will depart for the ancient river delta to collect rocks to return to Earth a decade from now.
Scientists are debating whether to make it easier to get to the nearest delta or a potentially difficult route with interesting fossils dating back to three to four billion years ago.
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