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After nearly 470 million kilometers, NASA’s Perseverance rover will complete its journey to Mars next month, exactly on February 18, with the aim of looking for traces of a past life in the Jezero crater. To reach the surface of the Red Planet, however, he must survive the heartbreaking final phase known as Entry, descent and landing.
In a time frame of approx ‘seven minutes of terror’Since these types of maneuvers are known to NASA, the spacecraft slows down from approx 20 thousand kilometers per hour almost at the top of Mars’ atmosphere 3 kilometers per hour at the time of Nations.
This will be the arrival on Mars
The NASA has a video of just over three minutes in which the dizzying spaceship arriving on Mars. It all starts with the descent of the capsule he travels to Persistence from Mars orbit. The thermal shield makes it possible to withstand the heat caused by friction in contact with the atmosphere of the Red planet.
After this phase a parachute slows down the capsuleuntil the base loosens and Perseverance falls folded, attached to a structure with motors that guides the vehicle to its exact destination. In the final meters, the structure lowers the rover with a system of cables until it rests on the ground and finally withdraws from the area.
Persistence to look for signs of ancient microbial life on Mars, collect and save Martian rocks and regoliths (broken rocks and dust) for future missions to bring them to Earth, characterize the planet’s geology and climate, and will pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet.
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