Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP) – A spacecraft aimed at landing on Mars has passed over the Earth, burned at the entrance, crashed to the surface, and landed amid a flurry of smoky dust to bring out a vague gray image. Death
Nearly 50 years after the first crash on Mars, NASA is still trying its hardest Martian touchdown.
The rover’s name is Perseverance Proceed Thursday for a 5-mile-by-4-mile (8-kilometer-by-6.4-kilometer) patch on the edge of an ancient river delta. It is full of rocks, pits, sand dunes and rocky fields, any of which can doom 3 billion missions. There may be evidence of a past life even once submerged in water, all the more reasons to collect specimens at this place to return to Earth 10 years from now.
While NASA has made all possible efforts to ensure success, “there is always the fear that it will not work well, it will not work well,” said Arisa Steele, an engineer with the landing team, on Tuesday. “We’ve had a very good run of successful missions lately and you never want to be one. It’s heartbreaking when it happens. ”
Take a look at NASA’s latest mission:
Mercury Master
NASA has realized eight out of nine landing attempts, leading to U.S. Has become the only country to achieve a successful touchdown. China hopes to become another nation with its own life-finding rover by the end of late spring; Its ship entered orbit around Mars last week with a UAE spacecraft. The extremely thin atmosphere of the Red Planet makes it difficult to land safely. In the early 1970s, Russia suffered the most land damage to Mars and the Moon Phobos. The European Space Agency also tried and failed. Two NASA landers are still buzzing together: the 2012 ′ Curiosity Rover and the 2018 Insight. Launched last July, the Persuasion parachute, rocket engine and sky crane will descend about 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometers) from the Jezero crater. Millions of lines of software software code and hundreds of thousands of electric parts have to work with precision. “There is no backing. There are no efforts, ”Deputy Project Manager Matt Wallace said Wednesday.
Excessive landing
NASA has equipped 1 ton perversion with the latest landing opportunity – the Bifier version of Curiosity – to snatch this touchdown. The new op topilot tool will calculate the distance of the rover landing at the target location and release the huge parachute at a specific moment. The second system will then scan the surface, comparing the observations with the on-board map. The rover can spin up to 2,000 feet (600 meters) while searching for a safe, Neil Armstrong style somewhere. Without these gizmos, the Jezero Crater would be too risky to try. Once landed, the six-wheeled Mars should be the best driver ever seen, with more autonomy and range than Curiosity. “Percy has got a new set of kicks, and he’s ready for trouble on this Martian surface with his new wheels,” explains Chief Engineer Adam Steltzner.
Looking for signs of life
Where there was water there was life. That’s why NASA wants personal snooping around the Jezero Crater, once home to a lake fed by the river. It is now dry bones, but billion. Billion billion years ago, this Martin lake was as big and wet as Lake Tahoe in Nevada and California. Soon, lasers will shoot at rocks with evidence of past microscopic life, analysis of emitted vapors, and potential candidates to drill among the best candidates. A few dozen core samples – costing about a pound (let half a kilogram of rock) and dust – will be set aside in sealed titanium tubes for future pickup.
Arrival – departure ticket
Ever since NASA Mariners provided the first close-up images half a century ago, scientists have been keen to capture Mars rocks. To do that, NASA will partner with the European Space Agency. The Bold Plan called for a rover and return rocket to launch on Mars in 2026, with a collection of specimens of PersonaVarens recovered. Many years before the first astronauts arrived at the scene, NASA expected the rocks to return in early 2031. The rover’s super sterilized specimen tubes are the cleanest components sent into space to avoid any contaminated traces of the Earth.
Precautions regarding covid 19
In terms of cleanliness, NASA’s Mars mission control has never been so spotless. Instead of passing around peanut jars before the Persians landing – a tradition of good luck for those who have traveled back decades – masked flight controllers will get their own personal bags. It is one of the many COVID-19 precautions at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. The landing team will be spread across several rooms, with NASA’s Bigwigs and reporters watching from a distance. Launched last July, the aptly named Perseverance has a plaque honoring health care workers who have fought the virus in the past year.
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