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Flight over the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover landing site
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/...the_Mars_2020_Perseverance_rover_landing_site
Flight over the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover landing site
Someone got the km<->miles conversion backwards. Doh.The only issue seems to be the altitude overlay that seems to be much higher than it should be...
Airbus to build 'first interplanetary cargo ship'
The US space agency (Nasa) has released an animation showing how its one-tonne Perseverance rover will land on Mars on 18 February.
The robot is being sent to a crater called Jezero where it will search for evidence of past life. But to undertake this science, it must first touch down softly.
The sequence of manoeuvres needed to land on Mars is often referred to as the "seven minutes of terror" - and with good reason.
Perseverance is equipped with an advanced navigation system with panoramic and stereoscopic cameras, as well as an experimental installation MOXIE, which will try to extract oxygen from the Martian atmosphere, which is mainly composed of carbon dioxide. In addition, it can launch the unmanned aerial vehicle Mars Helicopter for a more detailed survey of the terrain. The device is equipped with two microphones. NASA hopes that these devices help Perseverance to touch, taste and finally hear the sounds of Mars. All samples of rocks and soil that the rover will collect using a drill and a robotic arm will be placed in sterile metal containers and left on the planet's surface. To deliver them to earth, NASA is planning another mission in 2026.
Today is the big day!
Everybody hail the probe, so it can avoid the Big Green Mars Monster that eats probes.
If anyone has ~4h to burn, here are some press conferences:
(for the engineering crowd)
(for the science crowd)