In this artist’s concept, Nasa’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter stands on the Red Planet’s surface as NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover (partially visible on the left) rolls away.(Image: Nasa)
WASHINGTON: After a seven-month journey, Nasa’s Perseverance rover prepares to touch down on Mars on Thursday after first negotiating a risky landing procedure that will mark the start of its multi-year search for signs of ancient microbial life.
The Mars 2020 mission, which set off late from Florida in late July, includes the largest ever vehicle to be dispatched to the Red Planet.
Built at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, it weighs a ton, has a robotic arm that is two metres long, has 19 cameras, and two microphones to record the Martian soundscape.
Should it arrive intact, Perseverance will be only the fifth rover…
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