Perseverance (rover)
Perseverance is a Mars rover launched July 30, 2020. It arrived in the Jezero Crater on Mars February 18, 2021. On the same day, it captured its first picture of Mars. The rover carried, among other things, an oxygen generator, 17 different cameras and the first ever helicopter to be flown on Mars, Ingenuity.
In April 2021, the oxygen generator in the Perseverance created oxygen from carbon dioxide in the Martian atmosphere.[1]
On August 6, 2021, the first sample-collection experiment was attempted, and failed. The drill hole was successful, but later data revealed that the rock had crumbled, leaving no core to collect. [2]
Perseverance (rover) Media
Perseverance in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Pasadena, California
Family portrait on the rover. From left to right: Sojourner, Spirit, Opportunity, *Curiosity, Perseverance and Ingenuity.
MOXIE martian oxygen production test on 20 April 2021 graph
WATSON camera views rocks (Mars; video; 0:05; May 10, 2021)
NASA's Thomas Zurbuchen announced the rover's official name, Perseverance, on March 5, 2020, at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke, Virginia. Zurbuchen made the final selection following a 2019 nationwide naming contest that drew more than 28,000 essays by K-12 students from every U.S. state and territory.
Relative positions of Ingenuity and Perseverance after flight 64
Perseverance rover's sampling bits- The pointed one with two windows on the left is the regolith drill
- the two shorter ones on the right are abrasion tools
- the others in the center are rock drills
NASA's annual costs for the Perseverance rover over its development and prime mission
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References
- ↑ Potter, Sean (2021-04-21). "NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover Extracts First Oxygen from Red Planet". NASA. Archived from the original on 2021-04-22. Retrieved 2021-04-22.
- ↑ Jandura, Louise (2021-08-11). "Assessing Perseverance's First Sample Attempt". NASA. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
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