NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover launched: Watch the historic liftoff here

Achieving a major milestone in ambitious mission to Mars, NASA has launched it's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter topped on United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket on July 30 at 5:20 PM (India Time of 7 AM ET). NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover that was lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida will land on Red Planet February 18, 2021, and will conduct its ‘main job’ of finding signs of ancient life along with collecting rock and soil samples for a possible return to Earth making it first rover for Astrobiology. entire duration of mission under NASA’s Mars Exploration Program is nearly 687 earth days that sums up one Mars year. 

NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover launched

NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover is “first leg” of a round trip from Martian Planet because it is also first rover that would take ‘sample caching system’ to Mars. Perseverance will drill out intact rock cores that are about a piece of chalk that will be stored until it returns to earth. From having self-driving smarts better than any or NASA’s rover to  Terrain-Relative Navigation, Perseverance has an array of future-looking techlogies that would enable it to explore “interesting” Jezero Crater, its place of landing. According to NASA, its Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is equipped with more cameras than any interplanetary mission in history. 

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Millions viewed NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance rover launch

On eve of NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance rover launch, NASA ministrator, Jim Bridenstine h assured that " launch reiness review is complete, and we are indeed going for launch”. re were some doubts regarding wear but latest wear update just 24 hours before launch h predicted 80 per cent chance of favourable conditions. With millions watching launch of NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance rover from ir homes, Alex Mar and Vaneeza Rupani were specially mentioned by NASA as y named rover and Ingenuity respectively and finally got to witness lift-off. 

lesser-kwn fact about NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is that it has carried public along with it to Red Planet. In a unique initiative by NASA, names of nearly 10.9 million people who h signed up prior to lift-off to ride along on Perseverance’s journey to Mars is embedded on three silicon chips attached to an adized plate that also carries words “Explore as one” in Morse code.

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