NASA's Mars rover 'Perseverance' lands on Mars



NASA 's Perseverance Mars probe launched from a launch facility at Cape Canaveral Air Force Base in the United States on July 30, 2020, local time, 293 million miles ( 473,200) from Earth. After traveling a tremendous distance of (10,000 km) for 203 days, I finally arrived on Mars and landed on the surface of the earth. The landing was announced at 5:55 on February 19, 2021 Japan time.

Touchdown! NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover Safely Lands on Red Planet – NASA's Mars Exploration Program
https://mars.nasa.gov/news/8865/touchdown-nasas-mars-perseverance-rover-safely-lands-on-red-planet/

NASA's Perseverance rover successfully lands on Mars --The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/18/22289668/nasa-mars-perseverance-rover-success

Perseverance rover has landed safely on Mars | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/02/perseverance-rover-has-landed-safely-on-mars/

The Mars rover Perseverance was loaded onto the Atlas V rocket and launched from the 41st Launch Facility at Cape Canaveral Air Force Base . Perseverance is a spacecraft sent from Earth to check for traces of life on Mars, collecting surface samples such as rocks and soil on Mars to investigate geology and weather.

NASA successfully launches Mars probe 'Perseverance' --GIGAZINE



The following articles summarize the equipment of Perseverance and the differences from Curiosity.

Summary of functions and missions of NASA's 'Perseverance' spacecraft with Mars landing in countdown --GIGAZINE


by NASA

It was announced that such Perseverance landed on Mars at 5:55 on February 19, 2021 Japan time. Perseverance landed on the surface of the earth seven minutes after entering the atmosphere of Mars. In the future, Perseverance will begin an exploration mission at Jezero , the crater of Mars.

After landing on Mars, Perseverance's official Twitter tweeted, 'I'm safe on Mars. Perseverance will take you everywhere.'



Also, the official Perseverance Twitter tweeted, 'I've traveled nearly 300 million miles (480 million kilometers), but my journey has just begun,' along with a tweet from NASA's control room on Perseverance. We share photos of staff celebrating the landing.



The image below is the first image taken by Perseverance after landing on Mars.



In addition, a second photo of the surface of Mars taken by Perseverance.



'This landing is one of the most important moments for NASA, the United States, and global space exploration. We are at the forefront of discovery, so to speak, a pencil to rewrite textbooks,' said NASA Deputy Secretary Steve Jurczyk. It was the moment when I realized that I was shaving. '

Perseverance decelerates when landing on the surface of Mars using a parachute as shown in the illustration below. It seems that the speed at the time of descent reaches 1500 km / h, but the parachute opened at an altitude of about 11 km succeeded in reducing the descent speed to 3.2 km / h.



After that, Perseverance separated from the parachute and landed safely on the surface using a jet engine. The animation below is an image of the moment of landing of Perseverance, not an actual video.



The following is a live movie of the moment of Perseverance's landing on Mars, which was released on the official YouTube channel by NASA. Perseverance rushes into the atmosphere of Mars around 1 hour and 33 minutes in the movie and lands on the surface at around 1 hour and 40 minutes.

Watch NASA's Perseverance Rover Land on Mars! --YouTube


Perseverance plans to search for fossilized microorganisms and confirm traces of life in Jezero, a delta on Mars that was formed about 3.5 billion years ago.

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