![[서울신문] Percivirance began to roam the surface of Mars. Just 6.5m](https://img.seoul.co.kr/img/upload/2021/03/06/SSI_20210306102315.jpg "[서울신문] Percivirance began to roam the surface of Mars. Just 6.5m")
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▲ This is the first photo taken by NASA’s exploration rover Perciviarence on the 18th of last month (hereinafter referred to as local time) while walking around the surface of Mars for the first time on the 4th. The tire marks on the top are clearly engraved on the surface.
NASA/Jet Propulsion Research Institute (JPL) courtesy of California Institute of Technology AP Yonhap News
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The NASA exploration rover Perciviarence, which landed on the surface of Mars on the 18th of last month (hereafter local time), finally started rolling its wheels on the 4th. The 1t rover went forward only 6.5m and turned around 150 degrees.
Katy Stack Morgan, deputy director of the exploration project, gave meaning as a meaningful move. “The Rover still has a lot of engineering overhaul. “The rubber started to move, which made us perceive ourselves as explorers on the surface of Mars.” “You can see the traces we left on Mars, too,” said Anais Zarypian, operating engineer for Persitivity. I think I have never been so happy when I see the traces of the wheel.”
Percivirance, which is located on the flat floor inside the impact hole, is a formulation located just above the equator of Mars. Will be collected. One of the places to explore is believed to be an ancient delta made of gravel and sand deposited by rivers. It is also thought that the Jjangro crash zone was a large lake that existed billions of years ago.
The operation team considers two routes to approach the delta and chooses one of them, collecting the remnants of this isolated area apart from the geological formation of Mars. “This ((mound) is about 3.8 km away from the rover. You will be able to understand the (Mars) strata through the stones,” said Dr. Morgan.
Now the next goal is to experiment with helicopter flight for the first time on a planet other than Earth. The’Ingenuity’, which weighs about 2 kilograms, will be launched to observe the terrain for a few weeks. It is now hidden under Percivierance’s belly button.
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▲ U.S. President Joe Biden held a video call with members of the NASA Jet Propulsion Research Institute (JPL), who are successfully carrying out a Mars exploration mission at the Roosevelt Room in the White House on the 4th (local time). While speaking, he is showing a firm fist.
Washington DC AFP Yonhap News
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“We are still looking at possible flight areas,” said Robert Hog, Deputy Exploration Manager. The soil pictures taken by the navigation camera are being received and analyzed. They are also looking at photos taken by the orbiter. To shorten the long story, we are still aiming to get these things done in the spring.” Perciviarence is the fastest rolling Mars rover ever sent by NASA. It rolls 5cm per second. However, it was possible because of technological advances with automatic navigation. We proceed by filming the road that unfolded in front. Prior to that, the rovers had to stop sending photos. On the other hand, persistence can be advanced while flying a helicopter. Zaripian joked, “I can chew gum while taking a walk in Percivirence.”
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▲ NASA announced on the 5th (local time) that it was decided to name the point where Percivirence was settled in the crash hole with the Mars sanctions, the US science fiction writer Octavia Butler, and on February 4, 2004, the University of Seattle, Washington. Posing in a bookstore.
seattlepi.com material photo AP Yonhap News
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Meanwhile, NASA announced on the 5th that the landing site inside the crash hole in Jeseon-ro will be named after the renowned American science fiction writer Octavia E Butler. It is in the same context as the place where the NASA exploration rover Curiosity settled in 2012 was named after science fiction writer Ray Bradbury. Butler spent his childhood not far away from the lab in Pasadena, California, where the Jet Propulsion Research Institute (JPL), which is responsible for exploring Mars, was the first African American science fiction writer to be recognized by mainstream critics. .
Byung-seon Lim, Secretary General, Peace Research Institute [email protected]
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