Mars Rover - Perseverance
Using the NASA link below, choose one resource to examine from the site, e.g. news article, then write a summary or commentary about its contents. The choice must relate specifically to the new Mars Rover Perseverance.
Your written response should contain a clear indication of the resource to which you are referring, e.g. According to the article: "NASA’s Next Mars Rover Is Ready for the Most Precise Landing Yet."
Spelling and grammar are to meet 6th Grade expectations. Write your response in Google Docs first then copy and paste into the Blog. Leave your class number at the end of your post to receive credit for your comments.
https://www.nasa.gov/perseverance
This blog response due date is: Friday, February 26.
The Mars Rover named Perseverance recently landed on Mars on February 18, 2021. Rovers themselves are very hard to land on the face of mars according to JPL Director, Michael Watkins. “About the size of a car, the 2,263-pound (1,026-kilogram) robotic geologist and astrobiologist will undergo several weeks of testing before it begins its two-year science investigation of Mars’ Jezero Crater.”, says “Touchdown! NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover Safely Lands on Red Planet” (TNMPSLRP)article on NASA website. Perseverance has a specific mission to, “... investigate the rock and sediment of Jezero’s ancient lakebed and river delta to characterize the region’s geology and past climate, a fundamental part of its mission is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life.” states TNMPRSLRP, NASA article. The reason for this is to many scientists saying that Jezero’s crater used to have its own river delta. Also, providing information that the Jezero’s crater was once filled with water. Perseverance is equipped with many different tools and systems on and inside it. Some systems are SHERLOC and WATSON. Their main jobs are to take images of rocks, specifically with x-rays and analyze them. When these systems do this they will determine what minerals and organic molecules are present. To determine if there was once any life on this planet and if there is any able to be supported with any new data discovered. Along with Perseverance’s many other discoveries along the way, scientists will study the x-rays and many other images from Perseverance.
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Touchdown! According to the article “Touchdown! NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover Safely Lands on Red Planet” it states “The largest, most advanced rover NASA has sent to the world touched down on Mars…” After a 203 day journey the success of the touchdown was announced in NASA’s Jet Laboratory. The 2,263 pound about the size of a car, rover, Perseverance will investigate rocks, Jezero’s ancient lake bed, and delta to figure out past geology and past climates on Mars. The rover can also find signs of ancient microbial life. After, the Mars Sample Return campaign will let scientists study samples collected to observe signs of past life. Jezero Crater is on the western edge of Isidis Planitia and Scientists determined that about 3.5 million years ago the crater had its own delta filled with water. While Perseverance is exploring the crater, the power system that provides it is a Multi- Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator. “We built the rover not just to land but to find and collect the best scientific samples for return to Earth, and it's incredibly complex sampling system.” says JPL Director Micheal Watkins. Perseverance has many scientific instruments such as cameras that use pulsed lasers to study the chemistry of rocks, Radar Imager for identifying how different layers of surface formed over time, and many more. Also currently attached to Perseverance belly is a technology demonstration that will attempt the first powered flight on another planet. Now with all of this scientists and engineers over the months will test every instrument then will they go into the flight phase but for now we will wait. John McNamee says “This mission is about what humans can achieve when they persevere. We made it this far. Now, watch us go.”#17
ReplyDeleteOn Feb,18,2021, 3:55 EST/ 12:55 PST NASA’s newest Rover makes an appearance in the one and only, Mars! Perseverance,NASA’s Rover, who claims to be the most ambitious rover yet, is going to mars to seek any information about any signs about any living life there.“To answer this question, the landing team will have its hands full getting us to Jezero Crater” states Thomas Zurbuchen. This rover has a parachute,heat shield,and a back shell. The parachute is for when it is landing,it will make more of a smooth landing,the heat shield is so the rover can sense how far away it is from touching the ground, and the article states that the back shell is, “retrorockets to slow down and fly to the landing site”. Let's hope that perseverance gets a chance to finish his task or even seek any new information…
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According to the article ¨Touchdown! NASA´s Mars Perseverance Rover Safely Lands on Red Planet¨ ¨The largest most advanced rover NASA has sent to another world touched down on Mars Thursday, after a 203-day journey traversing 293 million miles¨¨ This specific mission was launched on July 30, 2020 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida to collect Mars samples and return them to Earth. The rover is about the size of a car and will investigate Mars Jezero crater. The rover will investigate the rocks and sediment of Jezero´s Lake bed and river delta to characterize the lands geology and past climate, a key piece of its mission in astrobiology, including the exploration of signs of ancient microbial life. Scientists will then be allowed to study samples collected by perseverance to search for conclusive signs of past life using tools that could not be sent to the Red Planet. Thomas Zurbuchen states “Perseverance is the first step in bringing back rock and regolith from Mars. We don’t know what these pristine samples from Mars will tell us. But what they could tell us is monumental – including that life might have once existed beyond Earth.” About 28 miles wide The Jezero crater sits on the western part of Isidis Planitia a giant impact basin. ¨Scientists have determined that 3.5 billion years ago the crater had its own river delta and was filled with water.¨ ¨Equipped with seven primary science instruments, the most cameras ever sent to Mars, and its exquisitely complex sample caching system – the first of its kind sent into space – Perseverance will scour the Jezero region for fossilized remains of ancient microscopic Martian life, taking samples along the way.¨ Perseverance is equipped with science tools that have an opportunity to ¨scientifically shine¨ like zoomable science cameras that use a pulsed laser to study the chemistry of rocks and sediment, and its own microphone to help scientists understand the properties of the rocks. Located on the rovers robotic arm are many features that will help study Geology on the planet. The radar imager will help determine how different layers of the surface formed overtime. The rover also has an environmental analyzer which has sensors and will provide information on Mars present day weather. Currently attached to Perseverance is the diminutive Ingenuity Mars Helicopter which is a technology demonstration that will attempt the very first powered, controlled flight on another planet. ¨Project engineers and scientists will now put Perseverance through its paces, testing every instrument, subsystem, and subroutine over the next month or two. Only then will they deploy the helicopter to the surface for the flight test phase. If successful, Ingenuity could add an aerial dimension to exploration of the Red Planet in which such helicopters serve as a scouts or make deliveries for future astronauts away from their base.¨ Steve Jurczyk states “The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission embodies our nation’s spirit of persevering even in the most challenging of situations, inspiring, and advancing science and exploration. The mission itself personifies the human ideal of persevering toward the future and will help us prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet.” #5
ReplyDeleteThe Mars Rover (Perseverance) recently and successfully landed on Mars in February. 18, 2021. The Perseverance’s camera captured almost every photo in color unlike the past rovers. There are a lot of different cameras capturing different angles of the Rover. Engineers are going to be improving the Perseverance and updating all of its software. A primary objective for Perseverance’s mission on Mars is Astrobiology research, Engineers are searching for signs of ancient microbial life. “In the following weeks, Perseverance will test its robotic arm and take its first, short drive. It will be at least one or two months until Perseverance will find a flat location to drop off Ingenuity, the mini-helicopter attached to the rover’s belly, and even longer before it finally hits the road”. #13
ReplyDeleteRecently, the Mars Rover, Perseverance, was sent to Mars to study Mars’ Jezero Crater. The Jezero Crater is where NASA says there is an “ancient lake-bed and river delta.” nasa.gov.The rover was launched on July 30th from Cape Canaveral in Florida and took 203 days to get to Mars. The space rover itself weighs about 2263 lbs. NASA’s goal for Perseverance is to look for any signs of microscopic and bacterial life on Mars and take samples back to Earth for researchers to study. According to nasa.gov, “‘Verifying that microscopic life once existed carries an enormous burden of proof,” said Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division. ‘While we’ll learn a lot with the great instruments we have aboard the rover, it may very well require the far more capable laboratories and instruments back here on Earth to tell us whether our samples carry evidence that Mars once harbored life.’” NASA and JPL had very sophisticated devices and systems onboard the rover. JPL equipped a program to collect data of Mars’ atmosphere. They also used a navigation system to find an entry point out of Mars and make it back to Earth to bring samples for scientists like microbiologists, geologists, and etc. NASA also wanted Perseverance to use MOXIE. Stated by nasa.gov, “Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) technology demonstration will attempt to manufacture oxygen out of thin air.” There are many more systems and instruments to help humans understand Mars. NASA is also working on their “Artemis” mission to the Moon where they can simulate what it would be like for humans to explore the Martian surface. In conclusion, the Perseverance rover is a great step for exploration in our solar system and learning about is life possible off of Earth. -#18
ReplyDeleteThe article “Touchdown! NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover Safely Lands on Red Plane” announces that Nasa’s Perseverance Mars rover team successfully landed their rover on Mars on Thursday February 18, 2021. The mission started on July 20, 2020; their goal was to collect samples from Mars and return them to Earth. NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk says, “This landing is one of those pivotal moments for NASA, the United States, and space exploration globally– when we know we are on the cusp of discovery and sharpening our pencils, so to speak, to rewrite the textbooks. ” The rover is about the size of a car, weighs 2,263 pounds, is a robotic geologist and astrobiologist, and is equipped with 7 primary science instruments (the most cameras to be ever sent to mars) . It was made to go to the Jezero Crater for 2 years to investigate rock and sediment, but also to look for ancient living microorganisms. The Jezero Crater is guessed to be about 28 miles wide and is on the western side of Isidis Planitia, which is north of the Martian Equator. Scientists have a good guess that 3.5 billion years ago it was filled with water and had its own river delta. Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for science at NASA said, “Because of today’s exciting events, the first pristine samples from carefully documented locations on another planet are another step closer to being returned to Earth.” JPL Director Michael Watkins says, ““Landing on Mars is always an incredibly difficult task and we are proud to continue building on our past success but, while Perseverance advances that success, this rover is also blazing its own path and daring new challenges in the surface mission….” While the Mars rover is investigating the sediment, the scientific tools will be able to “shine”. According to Nasa, some of the tools that are used are Mastcam-Z (a pair of zoomable science cameras) and SuperCam(uses a laser to study rocks). Those are just some of the instruments used to study Mars sediment. Project engineers will put the robot through the process. John McNamee, project manager of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission at JPL said, “ Perseverance is more than a rover, and more than this amazing collection of men and women that built it and got us here It is even more than the 10.9 million people who signed up to be part of our mission. This mission is about what humans can achieve when they persevere. We made it this far. Now, watch us go.” Nasa’s Perseverance Mars Rover team is striving to get know more and more about the red planet.
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DeleteThe article ¨Searching for Life in NASA’s Perseverance Mars Samples¨ Talks about how mars most likely had bacterial life 3.5 billion years ago and the search for proof has been found through rocks and images of the ¨Jezero Crater¨ prove that there used to be a lake with it´s own river delta. Due to water being on mars many suspected there would be life. When they hunt for biosignatures they use peserverance´s Supercam instument which can fire a plasma cloud to determine something´s chemical position. If the scientists find the chemical position looking promising to existence of life they could command the rover´s robotic arm to take a closer look. When they move the rover´s arm they either use a small turret or a small powerful X-ray to observe the chemical sample. With the tools it can determine whether there was a livable environment or not. They can also find clues from rocks called stromalites which are linked to water. When they are done finding a sample they will store them in sample tubes and send them back to earth for analysis. All in all, the Jerzero crater is the best proof we have Mars once having life and water billions of years ago but when the time comes we may discover even more of what ancient mars had 3.5 billion years ago.
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Landing on mars is incredibly difficult. It is hard to preserve the evidence. They built the mars rover not just to land on mars but to get samples to bring back to earth for a complex sampling system. And the samples are for the future to make more robots to land on mars. Subsequent NASA missions, in cooperation with ESA, will send spacecraft to Mars to collect these cached samples from the surface and return them to Earth for in-depth analysis.The largest, most advanced rover NASA has sent to another world touched down on Mars Thursday, after a 203-day journey traversing 293 million miles (472 million kilometers). Confirmation of the successful touchdown was announced in mission control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California at 3:55 p.m. EST (12:55 p.m. PST).
ReplyDeleteRecently, a rover named Perseverance landed on Mars after a 203-day long journey. Perseverance was created by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration or NASA. It was first launched into space on July 30, 2020 and it landed on February 18, 2021. According to “Touchdown! NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover Safely Lands on Red Planet,” Perseverance traveled 293 million miles before reaching its final destination. The article also states that before Perseverance can start researching the Jezero Crater on Mars, it must go through several weeks worth of tests. Once the rover has successfully completed the tests, the article mentions that Perseverance will “...investigate the rock and sediment of Jezero’s ancient lakebed and river delta to characterize the region's geology and past climate.” Perseverance will also be searching for astrobiology, “signs of ancient microbial life.” Perseverance has seven “science instruments'' which is the most cameras that NASA has ever sent to Mars and a system to collect samples. On the bottom of Perseverance, NASA attached a helicopter that will hopefully be the “first controlled flight on another planet.” If everything goes as planned, NASA will be able to send more helicopters to space. “Touchdown! NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover Safely Lands on Red Planet,” says the helicopters could also “...serve as scouts or make deliveries for future astronauts away from their base.” Hopefully, Perseverance finds plenty of new samples and information so that we can learn more about Mars. John McNamee, project manager of the Mars 2020 rover mission says “We made it this far. Now, watch us go.” #21
ReplyDeleteThe mars rover perseverance just landed on the red planet mars. Perseverance lands in a stylish way. NASA plans to go head first into landing on the planet. Perseverance will use jets to correct their trajectory once on course the rover cuts the parachute at the last second for a stylish landing. Perseverance is about the size of a car and weighs 2263 pounds (1026 kilograms). According to Touchdown ! NASA’s new rover just landed on the red planet Mars “ the Mars 2020 mission launched July 30, 2020, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The Perseverance rover mission marks an ambitious first step in the effort to collect Mars samples and return them to Earth.” Perseverance aims to collect samples and stash them once analyzed. NASA plans to send spacecraft to collect these samples and send them back to earth to be further researched. The rover is researching Jezero lake and it is thought that this crater used to contain water. The rover is equipped with the most cameras and the most advanced science instruments. These scientific instruments have ultra violet lasers and complex machines that studys rocks to find minerals and organic molecules on Mars. The team at NASA decided to call it (SHELOC) and (WATSON). The article states that the rover's main mission is to search for signs of microbial life; the rover will also map out the geology and climate of Mars. Perseverance will be the most ambitious Mars rover yet. With the advanced instruments and an innovative plan Perseverance will be the best rover to land on Mars. #10
ReplyDeleteNASA´S most recent and possibly there biggest accomplishment was the Mars rover ¨Perseverance¨ finally landing on the red planet at 3:55pm EST Feb.18th 2021 after taking off at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida July 30th 2020. Perseverance is also NASAS biggest rover yet, according to the article¨Touchdown! NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover Safely Lands on Red Planet¨ the rover is about the size of a car and is 2,263 pounds.But what is Perseverance´s purpose you might ask, one of its multiple purposes is to find ´´Fossilized remains of ancient microscopic Martian life, taking samples along the way.¨ Which if Perseverance finds those fossils NASA can prove that there was ¨harbored life¨ once living on the red planet so there might be a possibility that human life might be able to live there.#24
ReplyDeleteAccording to the article called “Touchdown! NASA’s Mars Perseverance”, The largest most advanced rover made it to Mars. This rover was sent on July 30 2020 from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. This rover was the size of a car, and weighed 2,263 pounds. While the rover was wandering around it found signs of ancient microbial life,”planned by NASA and ESA (European Space Agency), will allow scientists on Earth to study samples collected by Perseverance to search for definitive signs of past life using instruments too large and complex to send to the Red Planet’’, Also they are getting ready to bring a rock from Mars. Scientists have said that there was water on Mars 3.5 billion years ago. Landing on Mars is always a difficult mission and we are proud of our hard work -said JPL Director Michael Watkins. NASA is planning to land a second rover on Mars.
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The first ever helicopter on Mars landed with the Mars Rover Perseverance, on February 18, 2021. One useful thing that NASA could have used the helicopter for but decided not to was to hover it over the martian dust covered solar panels of an old Mars Rover that NASA had put on the large red planet. The little helicopter will only be released after 30 to 60 days after the Rover’s launch and once those days are up it will finally begin to explore the great red rocky surface of the large planet. And only weighing in at 1.8 kilograms lets just hope that in one of Mars’s dust storms that it doesn’t get blown away and carried with the storm. - #6
ReplyDelete“If we see a hedgehog staring in the camera, we would know there’s current and certainly ancient life on Mars, but based on our past experiences, such an event is extremely unlikely,”
ReplyDeleteSays Gentry Lee, chief engineer for the Planetary Science Directorate at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. And as the search for life on Mars goes on, the researchers find themselves unsuccessful. There have been theories that earth is the only place in the universe where life is a thing. Others believe that there is somewhat life in other galaxies. However, there have not been many theories that we have life at our neighboring planet. But because of the frequent occurrences of rovers coming across dry deserts, and have yet to discover any water on the planet, the only explanation for life is that there used to be, and not anymore. However, the Jezero Crater (landing site of rover “Perseverance”) could be the biggest clue that there once was life on Mars. According to the text, “They know that 3.5 billion years ago, Jezero was the site of a large lake, complete with its own river delta. They believe that while the water may be long gone, somewhere within the 28-mile-wide crater, or perhaps along its 2,000-foot-tall rim, biosignatures (evidence that life once existed there) could be waiting,”. Mars is like a big red desert, but that will have many fossils to be found. To find them, Perseverance will have to use very powerful X-Rays to see through the ground. 3.5 Billion years ago, Jezero was a very large lake and maybe fish fossils will be there. However, 3.5 billion years ago is a very long time, around ¾ of the Earth’s time, so the fossils are probably really deep down. But scientists won’t give up, they are going to try and find life that once lived on Mars, and maybe somewhere in the galaxy, there might be more life.
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How NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover successfully lands. Perseverance will live on Mars and conduct astrobiology research and collect samples to bring back to Earth. NASA used a special parachute to help land the rover. What questions would I ask if I were to need a parachute? What if the parachute doesn’t open? Will it hold my weight? Is there a back up? When should I pull the cord? Finally, how do I release it when I’m on the ground? To answer these types of questions, NASA did many experiments to make sure it was successful. To test how quickly it would open, they a rocket into space and released a parachute as it was falling back to earth at Mach 1 or faster than the speed of sound, it opened in less than a second. They had to make sure it would not shred or tangle so they used a wind tunnel to closely monitor the shute. The parachute is packed in a container and is deployed by explosives. They had to test how much to use and at different temperatures. If I knew parachutes were tested like this I would jump out of a plane tomorrow!!
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In an article called “NASA’s helicopter reports in” it talks about Ingenuity, the Mars rover Perseverance’s helicopter and about what it will have to do, and a bit of other things. Ingenuity is on the belly of Perseverance. Nasa got the first status report on Feb 18, 2021. The article says “ These are the two big ticket items in the data” region. Ingenuity is going to have to have enough battery to keep heating and vitals okay while still having enough charge to do it’s other things. It will stay attached to Perseverance for 30-60 days and will eventually become solar powered. They both appear to be working great. After ingenuity is deployed it will have a 31 earth day test flight window where it will survive through the harsh -130 degrees fahrenheit martian nights. If Ingenuity successfully takes off and hovers 90% of the goal will already be completed. Mimi Aung says “ We are in uncharted territories, but the team is used to that”. These flying, next gen robots will revolutionize the exploration of the red planet giving us new vantage points and more possibilities. #3
DeleteNASA's 2020 Mars rover Perseverance is planned to "touchdown" at Jezero (a place on mars) around 3:55 pm EST. Thomas Zurbuchen, administrator for the Science Mission at NASA says "Perseverance is NASA’s most ambitious Mars rover mission yet..." Jezero is a crater on Mars where Perseverance landing occurred into a fan shaped Delta. A delta has a wealth of benefits as well as a rich landform. The text also claims landing on mars is difficult and only about 50% of the Mars landings have succeed. Perseverance was first launched on July 30 ,2020, so it took about 6-8 months to get from Earth to Mars. Perseverance can also complete missions without any communications from Earth. Mars may be a very harsh place to live in, but unlike other discovered planets, Mars is one of the few planets that once had potential life there and is still possible to live there today. #12
ReplyDelete“Less than a day after NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover successfully landed on the surface of Mars, engineers and scientists at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California were hard at work, awaiting the next transmissions from Perseverance. As data gradually came in, relayed by several spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet, the Perseverance team were relieved to see the rover’s health reports, which showed everything appeared to be working as expected.” Unlike most of the mars rovers did not have color in the cameras. After landing, two of the Hazard Cameras (Hazcams) captured views from the front and rear of the rover. The mars rover Perseverance launched on july ,30 2020 the land date is Feb ,18 2021. Perseverance, which launched in July 2020, cost US$2.4 billion to build and launch and will cost another $300 million to land and operate during its first year on Mars. Perseverance is a few inches bigger than Curiosity with a weight of 2,260 lbs. (1,025 kilograms) nearly 300 lbs (136 kg) heavier. Some of their scientific instruments are also quite different. NASA's Mars 2022 perseverance mission captured thrilling footage of its rover landing in Mars' Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021. “There are two big-ticket items we are looking for in the data: the state of charge of Ingenuity’s batteries as well as confirmation the base station is operating as designed, commanding heaters to turn off and on to keep the helicopter’s electronics within an expected range,” said Tim Canham, Ingenuity Mars Helicopter operations lead at JPL. “Both appear to be working great. With this positive report, we will move forward with tomorrow’s charge of the helicopter’s batteries.”Like much of the 4-pound (2-kilogram) rotorcraft, the six lithium-ion batteries are off-the-shelf. They currently receive recharges from the rover’s power supply. Once Ingenuity is deployed to Mars’ surface, the helicopter’s batteries will be charged solely by its own solar panel. Next-generation rotorcraft, the descendants of Ingenuity, could add an aerial dimension to future exploration of the Red Planet. These advanced robotic flying vehicles would offer a unique viewpoint not provided by current orbiters high overhead or by rovers and landers on the ground, providing high-definition images and reconnaissance for robots or humans, and enable access to terrain that is difficult for rovers to reach. The rover launched from CCAFS space launch complex 41. Indeed, this dangerous terrain required Perseverance to make the most precise Red Planet touchdown ever. The rover's landing ellipse was just 4.8 miles long by 4.1 miles wide (7.7 by 6.6 kilometers), compared to 4 miles by 12 miles (7 by 12 km) for Curiosity.
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ReplyDeleteAccording to the article “Touchdown! NASA Mars Perseverance Rover Land Safely on the Red Planet. “ ”The largest, most advanced rover NASA has sent to another world touched down on Mars Thursday, after a 203-day journey traversing 293 million miles (472 million kilometers). Confirmation of the successful touchdown was announced in mission control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California at 3:55 p.m. EST (12:55 p.m. PST).” The rover launched on July 30, 2020 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida and landed on Mars on February 18, 2021. Perseverance is the name of the Mars Rover, it is about the size of a car and weighs 2,263 pounds or 1,026 kilograms. Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for science at NASA says that “Perseverance is the first step in bringing back rock and regolith from Mars. We don’t know what these pristine samples from Mars will tell us. But what they could tell us is monumental – including that life might have once existed beyond Earth.” Perseverance has a lot of Science instruments to complete her tasks on Mars. For example, Mastcam-Z is a pair of zoomable science cameras on Perseverance remote sensing mast, or head, that creates high-resolution, color 3D panoramas of the Martian landscape. Also located on the mast, the SUPERCAM uses a pulsed laser to study the chemistry of rocks and sediment and has its own microphone to help scientists better understand the property of the rocks, including their hardness. Currently attached to Perseverance is the diminutive Ingenuity Mars Helicopter which is a technology demonstration that will attempt the very first powered, controlled flight on another planet. The purpose of perseverance is to see if there was any life on Mars.
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According to Touchdown! NASA’s perseverance rover safely lands on the red planet, the Mars 2020 mission launched on July 30, 2020 from “Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida,” and “after a 203-day journey travelling 293 million miles.” It landed on February 18, 2021. THe rover Perseverance was about the size of a car and weighed 2,263 pounds. The article says “A Fundamental part of its mission is astrobiology, including the search of ancient microbial life.” When Perseverance collects samples NASA and The ESA (European Space Agency) will send a spacecraft to collect these samples to study and learn more about the climate and future of living on Mars. But the rover also has some additions to help it on its journey, for example, Perseverance has a device attached to its belly called the “Integrity Mars Helicopter”. The Helicopter will be used as a demonstration to “attempt the first powered, controlled flight on another planet.” also “Located on a turret at the end of the rover’s robotic arm, there is the Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry (PIXL) and the Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals or (SHERLOC)”. “Perseverance is more than a rover, And more than this amazing collection of men and women that built it and got us here” says John McNamee. It is even more than the 10.9 million people who signed up to be part of our mission”.
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With the Perseverance Rover on mars, I think that it's a very big advance for space exploration because of where it's landed. Jezero crater is predicted to have once held water, a key resource for the survival of any organism. If it did hold water at one point, then that could be a key for tests and more exploration of the crater and surrounding area. It is exploring as you read this, so if it finds any other rovers, It could also use it's mini helicopter to dust off the solar panels on the other rovers, as mars dust can get on the solar panels and instead of charging the battery, it would drain it and then it would die after a while. After the “7 Seven Minutes of Terror”. After it landed it took 142 images, stitched together to form a 360 view of mars. With the pictures of Jezeros crater, we now know that it could have been an ancient lake bed.
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