A picture from the video taken by a number of cameras as NASA's Perseverance rover landed on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021.NASA/JPL-CaltechNASA on Monday l
A picture from the video taken by a number of cameras as NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021.
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NASA on Monday launched first-of-its-kind video of a spacecraft touchdown on one other planet, as a number of cameras captured its Perseverance rover touching down on the floor of Mars.
The U.S. area company landed Perseverance on the crimson planet final week after a greater than six-month voyage from Earth.
The Perseverance rover was constructed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California and is essentially the most technologically superior robotic ever despatched to Mars. The company plans to spend practically two years utilizing the plutonium-powered Perseverance to discover the floor. NASA spent about $2.four billion to construct and launch the Perseverance mission, with one other $300 million in prices for touchdown and working the rover on the Mars floor.
Perseverance can also be carrying a small helicopter named Ingenuity, which NASA plans to make use of to aim the primary flight on one other planet.
Engineers observe the primary driving check for NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover in a clear room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, on Dec. 17, 2019.
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The rover, concerning the dimension of a small automobile, weighs about one ton and is 10 ft lengthy by 9 ft extensive by 7 ft tall. It has a robotic arm that reaches about seven ft, the tip of which has a robotic “hand” that has a digicam, a chemical analyzer and a rock drill. Perseverance is nuclear powered, with a plutonium generator supplied by the U.S. Division of Power to generate electrical energy for its pair of lithium-ion batteries.
Perseverance traveled 293 million miles to succeed in Mars after it launched from Florida on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on July 30.
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