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Robotic arm
A turret with many instruments is attached to a 7-foot robotic arm. A drill will extract samples from Martian rocks. The Sherloc device will identify molecules and minerals to detect potential biosignatures, with help from the Watson camera. PiXl will identify chemical elements to seek signs of past life on Mars.
By Eleanor Lutz | Source: NASA
Unless something goes catastrophically wrong, the seismic signals that InSight might hear will not emanate from the rover itself. Perseverance is to be lowered to the surface from a hovering crane, bumping to the ground gently at slower than 2 miles per hour.
The countdown has begun at NASA s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the landing of Mars 2020 Perseverance mission, which is orbiting Mars and set to land its rover Perseverance tomorrow, Feb. 18, 2021, while China s Tianwen-1 mission is likely to follow a similar feat two months later.
Engineers at Jet Propulsion Lab have confirmed that the mission is on target to touch down at the designated Jezero Crater on Mars surface at around 3.55 p.m. EST tomorrow. It is NASA s fifth Mars rover and, will be the US space agency s ninth Mars landing. Perseverance is carrying along the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, which will attempt the first powered, controlled flight on another planet.
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