Car size Perseverance Rover to land on Mars soon, to start Red Planet exploration

NASA has been sending land rovers for nearly a decade on Mars to find more details about this red planet. latest addition is Perseverance, which will land on Mars on February 18. According to an article published on .com, this land rover was launched by NASA by using Atlas V Rocket on July 30, 2020. This land rover is a crucial part of ambitious Mars 2020 mission, which is costing $2.7 billion.

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More details about this land rover

According to .com, perseverance mars rover at present has a mission cycle of one Martian year, which is equivalent to 687 Earth days. It is 10 ten feet long, 7 feet tall, and 9 feet wide rover, which is nearly size of a regular size car. perseverance rover weighs 1050 kilograms and is weighed less than a regular car.

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This Mars rover looks familiar as it is based on design of earlier Mars land rover named Curiosity. new rover comes with framework based on this old model, and scientists at Mars science laboratory used old techlogy alongside new ones to create this new rover.

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NASA released an official statement in 2017 regarding this land rover launched on Mars. Jim Watzin, who is Director of Mars Exploration Programme, said that reusing old hardware and models often helps NASA to minimize chances of a failed mission and also cuts down cost. Just like Curiosity Land Rover, Perseverance also has six wheels, one robotic arm, and one hand alongside multiple cameras, machines, and a drill to collect rock samples from surface of Mars.

It also has some advanced machines since it is ground-penetrating radar. It will dig holes on Martian surface and will study and sample rock layers, ice layers, and water layers up to 10 meters deep from surface.

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Its mission

mission of this new land rover is different than its predecessors. Its main mission is to find if re is any kind of life on Mars. It will try to find biosignatures on Mars from its past.  X-ray spectrometer and ultraviolet laser will aid this rover to find any traces of erstwhile life forms living on Mars.

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Science.com quoted George Tahru, who is executive head of Perseverance mission, as saying, "Our next instruments will build on success of MSL, which was a proving ground for new techlogy.". He also said that this mission would make it easy for upcoming missions on Mars to find life on Earth.