The rover has been traveling from space since its launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida in late July. When it reaches Mars, diligence will travel 292.5 million miles in its journey from Earth.
Drata is NASA’s first mission to find signs of ancient life on a large planet and help answer the big question: Was life ever present on Mars? Rover Je.9 will explore the Jezero Crater, an ancient lake that existed billions of years ago, and will discover microfosils in the rocks and soils there.
With a ride with perseverance, for the first time there is an experiment of flying a helicopter to another planet, called ingenuity.
Here’s what to expect this week.
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Unfortunately, we can’t see Rover Land on the surface of Mars – technically we’re not there yet.
During the landing coverage, Navarre’s mission control team will be able to confirm whether the rover landed safely on the surface of Mars.
“If we have one thing out there, it’s never been easier to land on Mars,” said Mark Atkind, NASA’s associate administrator for communications, in a statement. “But as NASA’s fifth Mars rover, Perseverance has an exceptional engineering lineage and mission team.”
Just weeks after landing, if everything goes according to plan, the camera and microphone on the spacecraft will show the rover’s perspective for the first time.
Landing on Mars: ‘7 Minutes of Terror’
If successful, it will be NASA’s ninth landing on Mars. First, it must go through the infamous “seven-minute terror.”
The only time for radio signals from Earth to Mars is about 10.5 minutes, which means that the seven minutes it takes for a spacecraft to land on Mars will take place on Earth without the help or intervention of NASA teams.
Ground teams tell the spacecraft when to start the EDL (entry, landing and landing) and take the spacecraft from there – and the mission control begins a painful wait.
This rover is the heaviest NASA has ever attempted to land, weighing more than one metric ton.
The spacecraft hits the top of the Martian atmosphere at 12,000 miles per hour and slows down to zero miles per hour after seven minutes when the rover gently lands on the surface.
The spacecraft’s heat shield will withstand a peak temperature of 2,370 degrees Fahrenheit, 75 seconds after entering the atmosphere.
NASA is targeting the 28-mile-wide ancient lake bed and river delta, the most challenging destination yet, for a spacecraft landing on Mars. Instead of being flat and smooth, the small landing site is filled with sand dunes, ep bho rocks, rocks and small craters. The spacecraft has two improvements – the so-called range trigger and terrain-relative navigation – to navigate this difficult and dangerous site.
The range trigger will tell the 70.5-foot wide parachute when to deploy depending on the position of the spacecraft 240 seconds after entering the atmosphere. After parachute deployment, the heat shield will detach.
The rover’s terrain-relative navigation, acting like a second brain, captures images of the ground using a camera as it arrives quickly and determines the safest place to swim. It can shift the landing spot up to 2,000 feet, according to NASA.
The rear shell and parachute separate after the heat shield is removed – this will happen when the spacecraft is 1.3 miles above the surface of the meteor. The Mars landing engines, which include eight retrorockets, will fire at slow speeds of 190 mph to 1.7 mph.
After that, the famous Sky Crane maneuver that will land the Curiosity rover will happen. The nylon cord will lower the rover 25 feet below the descending stage. After the rover descends to the Martian surface, the ropes will separate and the descending stage will fly and land at a safe distance.
Goal: What will the rover do?
Once the rover lands, Perseverance’s two-year mission will begin. First, it will go through a “checkout” period to make sure it is ready.
Dr. Ancient will search for evidence of ancient life and study the climate and geology of Mars and collect samples that will eventually return to Earth in the 2030s.
For this reason, the hard drive machine sent to Mars is also a sacred machine, designed so that it does not contaminate the Martian specimens with any microbes from the Earth that could give a false reading.
The Jezero Crater was chosen as the home of the Perseverance because billions of years ago, the basin was the site of a lake and river delta. The rocks and dirt from this basin can provide fossil evidence of past microbial life as well as more information about what ancient Mars was like.
“The sophisticated scientific instruments of opinion will not only help discover fossil microbial life, but also expand our knowledge of Martian geology and its past, present and future,” said Ken Furley, a project scientist for Mars 2020.
Furley said the diligent passage is about 15 miles long, an “epic journey” that will take years. What scientists have discovered about Mars is perfect for travel. To accomplish its goals, it will diligently drive a little less than 0.1-miles per hour, which is three times faster than previous rovers.
The Silent Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment, like MOXIE, also keeps in mind devices that could help for further research on Mars in the future. The experiment, about the size of a car’s battery, will try to convert methane carbon dioxide into oxygen oxygen.
Not only did NASA scientists learn how to make rocket fuel on Mars, but oxygen could be used during future human research on the red planet.
Ingenuity, the first helicopter on another planet
Makkam does not travel to Mars by itself. There is also ingenuity with the ride, which will be the first helicopter to fly to another planet.
After landing, the rover will also get a nice, flat surface for dropping the ingenuity helicopter so there is room to use it as a helipad for its potential five test flights over a 30-day period. This will happen in the first 50 to 90 days or so of the mission.
Once the ingenuity has stabilized on the surface, Khant will drive to a safe place at a distance and use his camera to watch the flight of ingenuity.
The ingenuity weighs just 4 pounds and has four carbon fiber blades, solar cells and batteries.
Mars has an incredibly thin atmosphere, so the design for ingenuity should be lightweight, while it includes rotors larger and faster than typical helicopters on Earth to get air.
If the ingenuity is successful, according to NASA, it could use more advanced robotic aircraft on future missions to Mars for both robotics and humans.
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