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If NASA successfully lands its fifth rover on Mars on Thursday, it will have delivered the Red Planet’s first microphones, its first aircraft, more cameras than ever before and a life-detecting duo known as SHERLOC and WATSON.
The Perseverance rover will also hopefully complete the initial step in an estimated 10-year effort to return samples of Martian rock back to Earth-bound researchers.
The rover carries a drill that can collect around 40 core samples, some 30 of which will be returned to Earth in the 2031 timeframe though that plan could change.
With luck, however, scientists won’t have to wait a decade for evidence of early Martian life.
NASA s Perseverance Rover is Carrying These 5 Key Items For its Journey to Mars
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On December 8, NASA revealed the details of five mysterious and interesting objects that the Perseverance Mars Rover had on its mission to probe signs of Martian life. Perseverance rover was built at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
NASA described the objects as ‘decorative and functional’ and stated that addition of these ‘extras’ is part of the ‘early space age’ tradition, now termed as ‘festooning’. It also stated that the rover is more than halfway to the Red Planet and it is just shuttling sophisticated science instruments and tubes to be filled with Earth-bound rock samples. The rover is also carrying some symbols, mottos and objects that are playful, like names of 10.9 million people who have purchased the tickets to fly to Mars.
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