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NASA Perseverance Rover Landmark Tour on Mars to Search for Signs of Ancient Life

Anxiety looms as NASA Perseverance Rover land on Mars and turns the place as its home for around 687 days, equivalent to 1 mars year. The trial is set to prepare future human missions on mars, as it will study mars habitability, search signs of past microbial existence, collect and hoard samples.
According to NASA Mars, the NASA Persevere Rover is a type of robot that was built by individuals with the intention to “act as the surrogate eyes and hands of explores on earth.” The robot will chart a way along its past shoreline to compare it with some places on the Earth’s surface which have same semblance.
The NASA Perseverance rover has been on a 292.5 million miles journey since July 30, 2020 from Earth and was expected to arrive on Mars on February 18, 2021.  The 1-tonne rover is powered by radioisotope thermoelectric generator that is fuelled by the heat of decaying plutonium. 

NASA Perseverance First Mission on Mars

The first mission of Perseverance on Mars will be to fire some pyrotechnic gadgets and release the camera covers. It will then take images on the front and the back of the rover and then submit the images back to earth through NASA’s orbiting Mars Odyssey spacecraft and Europe’s Trace Gas Orbiter.
The Perseverance will then confirm its location on the Mars, while the team will assemble the vehicle’s base functions like power, communications and thermal.

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