Perseverance
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Perseverance is a Mars rover created by the Jet Propulsion Lab to be used in NASA’s Mars 2020 mission. It was launched on July 30, 2020, and is expected to reach Mars on February 18, 2021. The rover is supposed to study the surface of Mars at Jezero crater.
NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter Touches Down on Mars and Prepares for Its First Flight
NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter touched the surface of the Red Planet after being dropped off from the Perseverance rover. A little more than a week is left before the first flight of the helicopter.
NASA's Perseverance Rover Took Its First Drive on the Surface of the Red Planet
Thanks to the rover's first Martian drive, NASA engineers were able to make sure that Perseverance was indeed capable of covering 200 meters a day in the next two years to collect samples of Martian soil.
The Parachute of NASA's Perseverance Rover Had a Hidden Message
Enthusiasts say that the phrase "Dare Mighty Things," the motto of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was encrypted on a parachute in the form of a pattern that can be translated into letters using a binary code.
NASA Shared an Epic Video of Perseverance Rover's Landing on Mars
The footage captures all stages of the rover's descent and landing, from the moment the parachute deploys in the atmosphere of Mars to the separation of the descent stage after Perseverance touched down on the planet's surface.
NASA's Perseverance Rover Successfully Landed on Mars
The mission control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California confirmed the touchdown on the Red Planet's Jezero Crater at 3:55 PM EST, but it took about 11 minutes to get a radio signal back from Mars and to know it happened.
Nasa’s Curiosity Mars Rover Took a Selfie on the Red Planet
NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover took a selfie in an area of the Red Planet called Mary Anning, named after the British explorer.
NASA Finally Launched Its Mars 2020 Mission With the Perseverance Rover to Mars
After landing on Mars the next year, Perseverance will begin looking for signs of ancient microbial and micro-organic life on the planet that may have existed 3.8 billion years ago in its rocks and dirt.
