{"id":19990,"date":"2021-02-21T12:30:56","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T06:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/?p=19990"},"modified":"2021-02-21T13:24:52","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T07:39:52","slug":"nasas-perseverance-rover-sends-sneak-peek-of-mars-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/nasas-perseverance-rover-sends-sneak-peek-of-mars-landing\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Perseverance Rover Sends Sneak Peek of Mars Landing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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After NASA\u2019s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover successfully landed on Mars, engineers and scientists at the agency\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Southern California were hard at work, awaiting the next transmissions from Perseverance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As data gradually came in, relayed by several spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet, the Perseverance team were relieved to see the rover\u2019s health reports, which showed everything appeared to be working as expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adding to the excitement was a high-resolution image taken during the rover\u2019s landing, NASA states in press release. “While NASA\u2019s Mars Curiosity rover sent back a stop-motion movie of its descent<\/a>, Perseverance\u2019s cameras are intended to capture video of its touchdown and this new still image was taken from that footage, which is still being relayed to Earth and processed.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlike with past rovers, the majority of Perseverance\u2019s cameras capture images in color. After landing, two of the Hazard Cameras (Hazcams) captured views from the front and rear of the rover, showing one of its wheels in the Martian dirt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perseverance got a close-up from NASA\u2019s eye in the sky, as well: NASA\u2019s Mars Reconnaissance. Orbiter, which used a special high-resolution camera to capture the spacecraft sailing into Jezero Crater, with its parachute trailing behind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The High Resolution Camera Experiment (HiRISE) camera did the same for Curiosity<\/a> in 2012. JPL leads the orbiter\u2019s mission, while the HiRISE instrument is led by the University of Arizona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several pyrotechnic charges are expected to fire later on Friday, releasing Perseverance\u2019s mast (the \u201chead\u201d of the rover) from where it is fixed on the rover\u2019s deck. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Navigation Cameras (Navcams), which are used for driving, share space on the mast with two science cameras: the zoomable Mastcam-Z<\/a> and a laser instrument called SuperCam<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mast is scheduled to be raised Saturday, Feb. 20, after which the Navcams are expected to take panoramas of the rover\u2019s deck and its surroundings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the days to come, engineers will pore over the rover\u2019s system data, updating its software and beginning to test its various instruments. In the following weeks, Perseverance will test its robotic arm and take its first, short drive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2019s belly, and even longer before it finally hits the road, beginning its science mission and searching for its first sample of Martian rock and sediment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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