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PERSEVERANCE (ROVER)

• Rocket -United Launch Alliance Atlas V-541 Rocket

POINT TO NOTE

• NASA’s next-generation Mars rover Perseverance blasted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral atop an Atlas 5 rocket on a
• US$2.4 billion mission to search for traces of potential past life on Earth’s planetary neighbour.
• 4billiondollars=18thousandcrorerupees
• India’s Mars Mission costed around than 500 crores

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PERSEVERANCE (ROVER)

• Perseverance, sometimes nicknamed “Percy”, is a Mars rover manufactured by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for use in NASA’s Mars 2020 mission.

DETAILS

• Perseverance carries seven scientific instruments to study the Martian surface at Jezerocrater.
• It carries 23 camerasin total, and two microphones. The rover is accompanied by the helicopter Ingenuity, which will help Perseverance to scout for locations to study.

HELICOPTER INGENUITY

• Mars Helicopter Ingenuity is a solar-powered helicopter drone with a mass of 1.8 kilograms (4.0 lb) that will be tested for flight stability and for its potential to scout the best driving route for the rover.
• Other than cameras, it carries no scientific instruments. Its job is merely to demonstrate the practicality of flight on Mars.
• The small helicopter is expected to fly up to five times during its 30-day testing and will fly no more than 3 minutes per day.

INDIAN CONNECTION

TRIBUTE TO HEALTHCARE WORKERS PLATE

• Perseverance launched during the COVID-19 pandemic which began to effect the mission planning in March 2020. To show appreciation for healthcare workers who helped during the pandemic, a 8 by 13 centimetre (3-by-5-inch) plate with a staff-and serpent symbol, was placed on the rover. Project Manager Matt Wallace said he hoped that future generations going to Mars would be able to appreciate healthcare workers during 2020.

WHAT IS THE US HOPING TO FIND ON THE RED PLANET?

• Scientists believe that, about 3.8 billion years ago, a river flowed into the Mars’ Jerezocrater creating large lakes
• Imaging suggests that carbonate minerals may have settled out along the crater’s rim hardening into rock. Ancient carbonate rocks on Earth have been found to house some of the earliest evidence of life, including fossilised bacterial mats. NASA is hoping to discover similar fossils on Mars or, at least, biosignatures within the rocks that prove that life did once exist there.

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