NASA is very proud of its Perseverance rover on Mars and it is understandable.
Finally, it was only two weeks ago that a car-sized rover landed its landing on the Red Planet to embark on a years-long mission to find signs of ancient life. Dr Persa has been busy since landing on February 18 and NASA will show how busy it is in a press teleconference today (March 5).
Considered as an opportunity to learn about Perseverance’s “firsts” on Mars, NASA’s Rover Update EST (2030 GMT) will begin at 3:30 p.m. You can follow it here and on the space.com homepage, courtesy of NASA TV or directly from the NASA website. Visuals for the teleconference will be streamed live on NASA’s JPL YouTube feed here.
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“Since NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover touched down in the Jezero Crater on February 18, mission controllers have made significant progress in preparing the rover for the next paved road,” NASA officials wrote in an update.
Agency officials added that “after landing, NASA’s largest, most sophisticated Mars rover is still investigating every system and subsystem and has returned thousands of images of the Jezero Crater,” agency officials added. “The testing will continue in the coming days, and the rover will make its first drives.”
Over the past two weeks, Perseverance has raised its camera camera mast and rolled electronic eyes to capture stunning views of the rover’s Jezero crater landing site. This week, the rover wrapped its robotic arm for the first time and began testing its wheels for its upcoming first drive.
The nuclear-powered Perseverance Rover was designed to find any clues that the Jezero Crater could support life in antiquity. It will also collect samples of Mars rock for future missions to receive and deploy the first helicopter to visit another world – a small drone – named Ingenuity – as it continues its mission.
The firm Mars mission is expected to last approximately one Mars year, which is 686 days (or about two Earth years). It is possible that perseverance can last a very long time. NASA’s Curiosity rover, which was based on the design of Perseverance, landed on Mars in 2012 for its own two-year mission and is even stronger after eight years.
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