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Perseverance NASA began actively searching for signs of ancient microbial life on Mars. This six-wheeled robotic scientist explores the dust Mars to four different places.
In the 1.5 square mile sector of the Jezero Crater lakebed, Perseverance will excavate samples it deems ideal for study. The samples will then be put into tubes and stored on the rover for several years until future missions can safely return them to Earth for research.
As quoted from Fierce Electronics, is a great honor for NASA if its missions, especially those related to scientific research, set them apart from the commercial interests of SpaceX and Blue Origin.
Therefore, in almost every tweet, video, and press conference from NASA and JPL, it tends to focus on the academic institution or entity that partners in its research.
Often, NASA will explain some scientific principle or endeavor to a global audience of civilian scientists, including schoolchildren. Recently, NASA created a surface panorama consisting of 992 individual images and 2.4 billion pixels that can be navigated via the internet. It includes graphics to show directions and unusual features as can be seen in the video below:
Mission team Perseverance will first point the rover into scenic views to survey the old geological features of the Jezero crater while taking and collecting samples using Perseverance’s more automated navigation capabilities.
The goal of Perseverance’s first exploration was to select four sites that best describe Jezero’s early geological history. When the science team observes with Perseverance’s state-of-the-art camera that the location is right, they will collect a sample or two. There are 43 sample tubes aboard Perseverance and up to eight of them will be filled with rock fragments and Martian dust during the first voyage.
After the first exploration, Perseverance will travel north and then west towards the site for the second campaign in the Jezero delta region where an ancient river and lake merge within the crater. From there, scientists hope to find minerals that can preserve fossils of ancient life that can be linked to biological processes.
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