The Perseverance rover, along with various components used during the recent landing, have been imaged from space.
The statuecaptured by the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, reveals the location of the chute and back shell, the descent stairs, the heat shield and of course the Perseverance rover itself. The spacecraft Color and stereo surface imaging system was used to acquire the photo. Launched in 2016, TGO is a joint mission of the European Space Agency and Russia Roscosmos.
Perseverance landed in the Jezero crater on Feb. 18, an event that NASA succeeded capture on film. “Jezero” means “more” in several Slavic languages, which is exactly what this place was billions of years ago. Once the rover starts moving, its primary task will be to look for traces of ancient microbial life in this former water.
The descent phase is at approximately 650 feet (650 meters) from the robberThis is the rocket-powered device that used cables to lower the rover to the surface and then unzipped to crash at a safe distanceThe parachute and backshell are about 1,200 meters northwest of the rover, while the heat shield is about 1,450 meters to the northeast.
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Track Gas Orbiter got this image five days after landing. Thee discarded objects will become more difficult to see over time, because they will become increasingly covered with Mars dust the coming years and decades.
In addition to this image, the orbiter assisted during descent and landing, acted as a data relay station for NASA. The satellite primary mission is to search for atmospheric gases related to geological – and possible biological – processes on Mars. Trace Gas Orbiter recently made headlines by a previously undiscovered one chemical process on Mars, albeit a process unrelated to life.