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NASA is celebrating the 1000th Martian day of the Perseverance Rover’s mission, preparing the longest flight ever for the helicopter that went to Marvin’s home.
Patience reached Mars on February 18, 2021 – 1,028 days ago. Martian days, however, are 37 minutes longer than terrestrial days. As of December 12, Perseverance has spent 1,000 of those extended days exploring Jezero Crater on the Red Planet.
NASA’s reminder post Detailed research is based on the data collected by the rover and presented on Tuesday at the meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
Among the discoveries of one of the places visited by the Perseverance, “Lefroy Bay,” there is “a lot of fine-grained silica, a material known to preserve ancient life on Earth. ” The next stop in the 22.896km journey made by the rover so far was named “Otis Peak” and it was found to host a large amount of phosphate – a substance associated with life. on the surface.
Carbonate was found in two places, which excited scientists because the substance could offer information about the environmental conditions at the time it was formed.
The findings, among others, have led scientists to conclude that Jezero Crater once contained a lake that may have reached 35 kilometers in diameter and 30 meters deep, and offered many of the molecules needed by the live in the world.
Patience has collected 23 samples that will hopefully one day be brought to the world for research. Unfortunately, the mission to do so is questionable.
While the businessmen, women and beans are arguing over that mission, Desire is given the order to pursue his fourth mission: check the edge of the Jezero Crater, near the valley where empty a river. Scientists want to check the amount of carbonate deposits observed in this region, which NASA said “stands out in orbital images like a ring in a bathtub.”
Another success of Perseverance is the Ingenuity Mars helicopter – a prototype ship that was originally designed to be used for just five flights. It does more than that: copter pilots planned it flies 68 times on December 12, traveling 828 meters in an out-and-back flight at 10 meters per second.
That speed will match the ship’s previous records, but the distance will be more than 25 to 124 meters in April 2022.
I will. A. Machine. ®