![]() ![]() There might be some really good what we call parking, helipad locations nearby.” So we don’t know how many sols it’s going to take, however, based on what were we landed we’re already starting to look at that data. “We actually want to find a habitable environment for the helicopter to fly in. Hwang said Perseverance might not actually have to travel to far. The drone-sized helicopter named Ingenuity need a flat area to make the first ever Martian flight and landing.Īfter the team completes checkouts for the rover’s software and instruments it will begin looking for a helipad or spot to deploy the little helicopter. One of the rover’s task will be to find a safe spot to deploy the 4-pound helicopter strapped to its belly. In about 8 or 9 sols, or Martian days, the rover should began moving on its six wheels, according to Pauline Hwang, Mars 2020 Surface Strategic Mission Manager. The first color image from NASA's Perseverance rover taken right after landing on Mars Feb. “Perseverance has the payload to help us figure this out and so we can’t wait to use our instruments, because really, you have to look at the fine detail and texture and the rocks to make that distinction.” ![]() “The big question for us, is are we looking at volcanic or sedimentary rocks? And those are the two I think dominant hypotheses that are out there right now,” she said. Stack Morgan said the science team was really excited to see some of the first images taken from Jezero Crater where Perseverance landed and can’t wait to begin using the rover’s science instruments to further examine them. And I can’t believe that I’m now seeing the rover on its way to the surface of Mars.” “And just to think that the last time I saw the rover like this, it was in the high bay at JPL is just incredible. “We’re used to the engineers showing us animations of the rover and that’s at first what I thought this was and then I did a double take and said, ‘That’s the actual rover,’” Stack Morgan said. Katie Stack Morgan, Mars 2020 deputy project scientist, said when she first saw the image it was almost unreal. You are brought into the surface of Mars you’re sitting there, seven years of the surface of the rover looking down,” Stelzner said. “The details there really pull off humans here on Earth, into the result of all of that hard work. Steltzner said the image represents the huge human lift to make the mission happen. The cables holding the rover to its jetpack could be seen coming from the rover in the image. “You can see the dust kicked up by the rovers engines were probably about two meters or so above the surface of Mars.” “This is an image of the rover Perseverance slung beneath the descent stage, its propulsion backpack, as it is being lowered to the surface of Mars,” Steltzner said. Members of the rover’s team shared some of those first images Friday during an update from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.Īdam Steltzner, chief engineer for the Mars 2020 mission, shared an aerial image of the rover as it was still about six feet off the ground. With a help of a bunch of cameras and some spacecraft orbiting Mars the dramatic but flawless landing of a NASA rover on the red planet was recorded during the event and science teams are already itching to get more images of some rocks near the landing site.įollowing the touchdown on Mars Thursday NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover team are already getting back images taken during the entry, descent and landing also known as “seven minutes of terror” that happened about 300 million miles away from Earth. ![]()
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