Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover
At 7.50 AM EDT NASA’s new Mars Mission 2020 launched its new Mars Perseverance Rover at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. It will land on the Jezero Crater on Feb 18th of 2021. This rover is set to search for any life and the geological detail of the Mars.
Also its made to collect samples, soil samples so if there’s any possibility of returning to Earth the team could collect back those samples and do further more research.
Perseverance is functioned to carry 7 instruments
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Mastercam-Z –It’s an advanced camera which has
view of panoramic and stereoscopic and zooming ability. It has the ability to
mineralogy of the surface of Red Planet.
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Supercam - This is another instrument chemical
arrangement analysis and mineralogy at a distant level.
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| Supercam |
· Planetary Instrument for X-Ray Lithochemistry (PIXL)- PIXL will provide more precise analysis of chemical elements like ever before. It consists of X-ray Fluorescence spectrometer and higher resolution of materials present on the red planet.
PIXL
· Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC) – This is a spectrometer that will provide fine imaging which uses UV laser for mapping out the mineralogy and organic compounds.
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| SHERLOC |
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The Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization
Experiment (MOXIE) – This is a technology which provides oxygen for Martian
carbon dioxide atmosphere. If this runs out well then on further mission the
astronauts can use same technology.
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| MOXIE |
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Mars environmental Dynamics Analyzer (MEDA) –
This is a set of sensors that helps in providing the information or
measurements of temperature, humidity, dust size, wind speed and direction.
· The Radar Imager for Mars‘Subsurface Experiment (RIFMAX) – This is ground penetrating radar that will provide centimeter-scale resolution of the geological structure of the substance.
Perseverance rover diminishes the risk of the mission as its
bases on the previous Curiosity rover. It has an attached Ingenuity Mars
Helicopter to its belly so it can fly around the mars for the first 60 days or
so. Its goal is just a flight test and it doesn’t carry any scientific
equipment.
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| Curiosity Rover |
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| Perseverance Rover |
This perseverance helps in for testing the
new technology for extraction of oxygen from the Red planet atmosphere, which
basically contains 96% carbon Dioxide. This test helps in for study on using
the natural resources of Mars for human uses. As it studies temperature,
weather and dust it helps in determining the weather, seasonal changes and
in-turn helps human explorers to forecast Mars weather in a more precise way.
Just like the Curiosity rover Perseverance’s base power is
based on Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator, which is provided
by U.S. Department of energy. For
generation of electricity it uses heat from the natural decay of plutonium-238.
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| Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator |
As you know the whole world is suffering from a dangerous
pandemic of covid-19, the mission team has attached this aluminum plate which
honors the health workers of this mission, as they took care of everyone and
maintained good environment even in such a crisis.
NASA had started send Your Name to Mars program where people all around the world were invited to submit their names to ride abroad on the agency’s next rover to the mars. The names were stenciled by electron beam three fingernail-sized silicon chips along with 155 finalists in NASA’s name the rover contest. The chips were then attached to aluminum plate. This plate was mounted to the rover on March 26 2020.
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