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‘Seven Minutes of Fear’ to settle in the ancient delta’Crater as an example’
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(Los Angeles = Yonhap News) Correspondent Jeong Yoon-seop = American Mars exploration rover’Perseverance’ successfully landed on Mars and set out on a mission to find traces of life on the’Red Planet’.
NASA’s fifth Mars exploration rover Perservation settled in Jezero Crater, which is believed to be the ancient delta of Mars on the 18th (local time), the Associated Press reported.
After launching on July 30 last year, Perseverance flew 475 million kilometers to reach Mars.
Perseverance is one of the most difficult and dangerous flights to Mars, so it has safely passed the process of entering, descending, and landing (EDL) on Mars, which is called ‘7 minutes of horror’.
Perseverance will be tasked with finding traces of ancient life that may have existed on Mars and collecting soil and rock samples to bring to Earth.
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As an example of the landing of Perservance, the crater is estimated to be the delta where the river flowed from 3 billion to 4 billion years ago, and it is expected that traces of organic molecules and other microorganisms can be found.
Equipped with equipment that can find organic matter and analyze rocks and soil components, Perseverance collects soil and rock samples, puts them in dozens of titanium tubes, and stores them in a promised place on Mars.
The samples will be collected by another rover that will be launched later, delivered to another spacecraft, and sent to Earth in 2031. On Earth, samples are analyzed with equipment such as a high-performance microscope to study the existence of living things.
The perspective is the size of a car with a length of 3 m and has six wheels, and is equipped with high-performance equipment such as a camera, microphone, laser, and drill.
It is the largest and most sophisticated NASA Mars rover to date.
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