Focused on putting a man on a rocket and sending him to Mars, we easily forget that something is actually there… Wandering. Additionally, he takes amazing panoramas that are surprisingly reminiscent of home and make you want to set foot on a foreign planet.
He sent a beautiful photo to Earth Perseverance rover, which, although not flown on The Red Planet as a tourist, he never ceases to please us by providing postcards from space. He’s just heading up the crater of an important point, the bottom of which he investigated for the last one three years.
This isn’t really a photo taken on Earth
Photo was taken during important maneuvers that scientists debated until several months. All this so that the rover could safely leave the bottom of an important research point on… the surface of Mars. The machine climbs the wall Jezero crater (and my hunch is not wrong, this object actually has a name with Slavic origins and it means, very accurately, lake), whose slope is 20 degrees and is within the range of the rover, but the problem is the slippery surface of various dusts covering elevation.
For this reason, Perseverance one day he will cover half of the expected route, only to cover only it the next day fraction. The above photo was taken while the climb was in progress. Back in September, the rover stopped to perform forty-four photos. From these photos, a mosaic was then constructed, giving us a beautiful mosaic when completed panorama. The surface, although sandy, appears so familiar earthly, that it is difficult to resist the feeling of closeness, which makes you want to… Put your foot on the surface Marsa.
The easy part of the mission is over, now it’s time for the difficult part
The rover landed in the area Lakes almost there four years ago because in February 2021. Perseverance he was not alone then, he reached this planet with him small helicopter, which then stole the entire attention of the scientific community. Ingenuity it flew as a test and no one actually knew how the flying machine would perform on an alien planet. But she flew and marked her place in the history like first object, created by man, who flew on a planet other than Earth. Due to lack of expectations, it was not equipped with additional instruments and we can only console our eyes with the photo below. The event was so important that it captured the imagination and stolen Perseverance’s attention.
But now it’s his time! The rover flew from important mission. The Jezero crater was not chosen randomly, scientists are fascinated by the stones at its bottom and the characteristic grooves and other geological features. structures. They attract so much attention because they look like a remnant dried rivers, that may have formerly crossed the surface of Mars.
Task Perseverance’a is the gathering of many samples soil to look for traces of long-extinct microorganisms. Soil research will also reveal the history of the planet. Just like it is done on Earth, the rover collects a sample, the subsequent layers of which will be opened before geologists and others researchers next stages history from the past Red Planet.
Next steps towards the conquest of space
The machine is capable of performing basic research itself and transmit the information back to the command center, but it will be necessary to recover these samples. Only on Earth, using many tools, will scientists be able to squeeze the last bytes of information from each grain obtained. A unique element this mission is that prepared in advance plan B. In case something were to happen loss samples, the rover left spare versions of them in special containers along the way, which would be recovered by space helicopters in seven years. What is the rover about? gladly informed on your own profile on the X platform (formerly Twitter)
Ongoing mission is part of a modern approach to space exploration. It and the upcoming three Artemis missions (recapturing the Moon) provide knowledge that will support space agencies and astronauts in capture another planet.
Source: antyweb.pl
