On January 3, 2004, the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit Began to make history. It touched down on the Red Planet for the first time, kicking one of NASA’s longest and most successful missions – and only helps the Earth to understand the wonderful universe we live on.
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Spirit Her twins joined chance Three weeks later, and simultaneously, both rovers found the possibility of water on the planet as a result of a rock test. The landing site for the second rover must have the same qualities as the sea bed.
The primary mission was to last only 90 days or 90 days, but the rovers were so strong that they had been kicking the planet for many years to collect data.
To give you an example of how much you have Spirit Done, let’s talk about distance. NASA intended to cover only 600 m or 0.4 miles. Instead, he logged in 7.73 km, Or 4.8 miles. As a result, NASA was able to collect a lot of geographic information about the planet, much more than expected. This is the mission that started man dreaming of colonizing Mars.
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We learned A lot. We learned that Mars has dust demons like Earth. We were able to better map the surface of Mars, as well as have a better understanding of what types of objects were formed in each section. It was a wonderful mission in every sense of the word.
Unfortunately, on May 1, 2009, Spirit Stuck in a little soft sand. It wasn’t the first time it had happened on a mission, and the rover was able to serve as a static analysis tool for a while when NASA tried to figure out how to unstuck it. That never happened. On January 26, 2010, NASA announced that it would never be moved. chance Exploration continued.
Only two months Later on Spirit Stopped transmitting to NASA. Fourteen months later, NASA announced that it would no longer try to contact the rover, calling its mission complete.
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