jezero – Bitfinance https://bitfinance.news Fintech & new economy info Fri, 19 Feb 2021 13:27:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 https://bitfinance.news/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/favicon-64.png jezero – Bitfinance https://bitfinance.news 32 32 NASA’s Perseverance rover successfully landed in the Jezero crater of Mars https://bitfinance.news/en/nasas-perseverance-rover-successfully-landed-in-the-jezero-crater-of-mars/ Fri, 19 Feb 2021 12:15:34 +0000 https://bitfinance.news/?p=59131 The main mission of the explorer is to look for traces of past life that could thrive in the humid environment that the Red Planet recorded billions of years ago

This Thursday, February 18, the NASA Perseverance rover landed successfully on the Jezero crater of Mars, as planned. Now, it becomes the fifth exploration vehicle that the US space agency places on the surface of the “red planet”. In a statement, NASA confirmed that after successfully overcoming the “seven minutes of terror”, which represented “traversing […]

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This Thursday, February 18, the NASA Perseverance rover landed successfully on the Jezero crater of Mars, as planned. Now, it becomes the fifth exploration vehicle that the US space agency places on the surface of the “red planet”.

In a statement, NASA confirmed that after successfully overcoming the “seven minutes of terror”, which represented “traversing the thin atmosphere of Mars and descending on the rocky surface of the Jezero crater”, the explorer is ready to discover signs of life in the past.

Launched on July 30, 2020 and equipped with cutting-edge technology, the Perseverance is made up of 6 wheels, a measure that is close to 3 meters long and weighs 1,025 kilograms, and has the mission of searching Mars for signs of past microbial life and collect selected rock and sediment samples for future shipment to Earth.

Three minutes before landing, the spacecraft deployed its parachute at supersonic speed and 20 seconds later the entry capsule detached from the heat shield. This allowed the rover to use radar to determine ground clearance and employ its terrain-relative navigation technology to find a safe landing site, as explained by NASA.

In addition, just one minute before touching the surface the rear half of the capsule attached to the parachute detached. At that moment, the structure surrounding the rover activated its retro-rockets to reduce speed and in the last few meters it dropped the rover with nylon straps attached to a crane. A great success celebrated by the entire team at the United States Space Agency.

Source: elsumario

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