The Perseverance team at NASA announced in a message shared on Twitter on Tuesday that they came across pieces of the thermal blanket that was wrapped on the vehicle to protect it from extreme weather changes when it landed on the surface of Mars.
According to the news in the BBC Turkish The team stated that they encountered this view 2 kilometers from the point where the robot landed last year. “It’s amazing to have found this here. Did this piece come here during the descent or was it carried by the wind?” used the expressions.
The Perseverance spacecraft completed its seven-month journey in February 2021 and successfully landed on Mars.
The one-ton vehicle had landed in a crater called Jezero, which was thought to have been a giant lake billions of years ago. The vehicle searches for traces of past life on the Red Planet. The data obtained by Perseverance, which can obtain microscopic images thanks to the equipment on it, is evaluated by sending it to Earth.
Prior to Perseverance, research on the habitability of more planets was conducted in Mars missions.
In the 2000s, Spirit and Opportunity surveyed the planet, and recently Curiosity revealed that Mars was once a hotter and wetter planet.
My team has spotted something unexpected: It’s a piece of a thermal blanket that they think may have come from my descent stage, the rocket-powered jet pack that set me down on landing day back in 2021. pic.twitter.com/O4rIaEABLu
— NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover (@NASAPersevere) June 15, 2022
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