Exactly one year ago or February 18, 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover first landed on Mars.
Rover Perseverance NASA today (18/2) marks 1 year of landing on the Red Planet, Mars, looking for evidence of ancient life. As is known, the Perseverance rover landed on February 18, 2021 in the Jezero crater, an ancient lake bed that indicates signs of ancient life on the planet.
To celebrate 1 year of Perseverance, NASA held a live question and answer session with scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. They also have a celebration live broadcast on YouTube which will start at 16:00 local time, or around 10:00 WIB this afternoon.
We’re celebrating @NASAPersevere’s upcoming landiversary! Join us Feb. 17 at 7pm PT/10pm ET/0300 GMT as mission team leaders discuss the rover’s incredible first year on Mars. Comment your questions below to get them answered live on the show. https://t.co/okJORsa0CC pic.twitter.com/eZhlhrADQQ
– NASA JPL (@NASAJPL) February 15, 2022
Regardless, Perseverance didn’t land on Mars alone. The rover was accompanied by the Ingenuity mini helicopter, the first aircraft to fly on the planet on April 19, 2021.
Ingenuity recorded more than 12 flights on Mars. This flight provides important data and experience on how to operate an automated drone plane, which can be used as a reference for flights on other planets.
To note, NASA will run a new exploration mission called Dragonfly in 2026, and is planned to land on Saturn, Titan in 2034. Titan is a world that is very rich in organic matter and even has its own water cycle of methane precipitation, a collection of liquid methane on the surface. , and evaporation.
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