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The Perseverance mission was announced in 2012. However, it was not until June 30, 2020 that he got up for a journey of almost 7 months. Now, after 480 million kilometers, the Mars 2020 mission is about to enter the final 7 minutes of sheer terror.
Follow the whole adventure here, at 8:55 p.m. (continental Portuguese time) on the arrival of the most ambitious mission to the red planet. NASA will broadcast live, with the respective 11-minute delay, everything that the Perseverance probe will pass to land in the Jezero crater, which once housed a lake that dried up millions of years ago.
NASA's spacecraft is closing in on Mars and will enter the atmosphere at about 20,000 km per hour and in less than seven minutes the rover will have to decelerate to less than 3 km per hour when it reaches the surface. Subsequently, the suite of devices that are part of a cost of US $ 3 billion will orchestrate a series of procedures involving parachutes, cranes and retrorockets. For sure there will be no lack of emotion and a lot of nervousness.
Watch the NASA broadcast from here:
Mars 2020: in search of microbial life
The Perseverance rover's main mission on Mars is to search for signs of ancient microbial life. This information could feed NASA research on the past habitability of the red planet. As the space agency explains, this research has four specific objectives:
- Identify environments that in the past could support microbial life.
- Look for signs of possible microbial life in these habitable locations, especially in rocks that may retain signs of life over time.
- Collect rock and soil samples from the Martian surface for further analysis.
- Test the oxygen production in the Martian atmosphere for possible future human colonization.
Additionally, the goal is to identify other resources such as groundwater, improve landing techniques, and monitor weather, dust, and other environmental conditions that may affect astronauts who will live and work on Mars in the future.
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