NASA’s new Mars car will land on the Red Planet in less than 100 days from now.
Life-hunting Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover, Which was launched on July 30, is scheduled to land inside the 28-mile-wide (45-kilometer) Jezero Crater on the afternoon of February 18, 2021 – just 99 days from today (November 11).
Home Stretch will be busy for car-sized robot handlers.
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“When we call the six-and-a-half-month voyage from Earth to the Mars cruise, I assure you there isn’t much croquet going on. Lido deckJohn McNemy, Mission Project Manager, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, Said in a statement.
“Between checking the spacecraft and simulating and simulating our landing and surface operations, the whole team is on the clock, working towards our exploration of the Jezero Crater,” McNemy said.
Makkam – the focal point of NASA’s 7 2.7 billion Mars Mars 2020 missions – will use the next landing strategy by its predecessor, Curiosity rover: Rocket-powered sky crane, will reduce continuous work on the cables to the floor of the jazero, then fly to crash-land at a safe distance.
Diligence will use its state-of-the-art instrument suite to search for signs of ancient Mars life in Jezero, which colonized the lake and river delta billions of years ago. The rover will also collect samples and cache it To return to Earth in the future And demonstrate techniques that could assist in future research of the Red Planet.
For example, one of Perseverance’s devices, called MOXIE (short for “Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment”), will produce oxygen from a thin, carbon dioxide-influenced Martian atmosphere. Scaled up version of MOXIE Help humanity to set foot on the red planet, NASA officials said. (The agency plans to launch its first crew Mars mission in the 2030s.)
And a small Helicopter named Chaturya There is perseverance on Mars After the rover landed and the helicopter got a good place to run test flights, the ingenuity will fly a few short periods in the Martian skies and fly for the first time on a world beyond Earth by rotorcraft. If the ingenuity is successful, future Mars missions could collect data at the helicopter’s hard-to-reach locations and serve as a scout for rovers, Ingenuity team members have stated.
Two other Mars missions are scheduled to land on the Red Planet in February 2021. Hope, A meteorological-study orbit operated by the United Arab Emirates Space Agency, and China’s Tiananmen-1 mission. The Tianven-1 consists of an orbiter and a Lander-Rover pair; The surface craft is expected to come down a few months after the mission slides into orbit around Mars.
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