Mark your calendars: The agency's latest rover has only about 8,640,000 seconds to go before it touches down on the Red Planet, becoming history's next Mars car.
A mere 100 days and 166 million miles (268 million kilometers) separate NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission and the Red Planet's Jezero Crater . Landing will occur on Feb. 18, 2021, at 12:43 p.m. PST (3:43 p.m. EST), with confirmation being received back at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California about 11 1 / 2 minutes later.
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NASA's next Mars rover will land in less than 100 days | Space
"Between checking out the spacecraft and planning and simulating our landing and surface operations, the entire team is on the clock, working toward our exploration of Jezero Crater," McNamee said.
Perseverance — the centerpiece of NASA's $2.7 billion Mars 2020 mission — will employ the landing strategy pioneered by its predecessor, the Curiosity rover : A rocket-powered sky crane will lower Perseverance to Jezero's floor on cables, then fly off to crash-land a safe distance away.
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Incredible Images Reveal a Mysteriously Formed Triple Crater on Mars
Today, the surface of the red planet is covered in no less than 43,000 impact craters larger than 5 kilometres; some ancient regions have received more of a beating than others.
In the ancient Martian highlands of Noachis Terra - a region heavily impacted roughly 4 billion years ago - astronomers have spotted a triple whammy crater made of three overlapping basins.
This natural Venn diagram of depressions is not as big as some other craters in Noachis Terra, some of which can span nearly nearly 140 km (87 miles) across, but the smallest crater of the lot is still an impressive 28 kilometres wide.
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Preparing for a human mission to Mars
A comprehensive overview of the mission, describing its technical and organizational infrastructure, is provided by Gernot Groemer, Austrian Space Forum, and coauthors. They describe the proposed workflow for coordinating the timing and location of the instruments and experiments. "In validation of this workflow, the decision-making interaction between the field and the Mission Support Center was studied," state the authors.
A performance metrics analysisis presented by Sophie Gruber, Austrian Space Forum, and coauthors. Their aim is to develop a benchmarking tool for mission planning and evaluation. "We propose a method to compare analog missions across agencies, disciplines, and complexities/fidelities to improve scientific output and mission safety and maximize effectiveness and efficiency," say the authors.
The Best Global Map of Mars Ever Shot from Earth's Surface
“It took me 10 days to process the last images of Mars done these last weeks from Pic du Midi,” Dauvergne tells PetaPixel. “Located in the French Pyrenees, Pic du Midi is one of the best places in the world for planetary imaging.
“We have used the 1-meter telescope of the observatory and its native 17000mm focal length. In the beginning, this telescope was created to help NASA to prepare Apollo missions in the early 60s, and it’s still one of the best in the world to study planetary surfaces in the visible part of the spectrum.”
NASA's Curiosity Takes Selfie With 'Mary Anning' on the Red Planet – NASA's Mars Exploration
The Mars rover has drilled three samples of rock in this clay-enriched region since arriving in July.
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has a new selfie. This latest is from a location named "Mary Anning," after a 19 th -century English paleontologist whose discovery of marine-reptile fossils were ignored for generations because of her gender and class. The rover has been at the site since this past July, taking and analyzing drill samples.
Made up of 59 pictures stitched together by imaging specialists, the selfie was taken on Oct. 25, 2020 – the 2,922nd Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity's mission.
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