#mars rover

Mars 2020 Perseverance mission has launched today on Atlas V rocket. In February 2021 the rover will reach Mars and begin a new chapter in the exploration of the Red Planet.

Learn more about the mission here.

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Fictional mission

It’s been a while since the last post, so here’s the fresh one - just a couple of astronauts exploring Mars in their mighty rover.

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Real space mission

Another one in my Martian rovers series. This time it is, now nonoperational, Mars Exploration Rover “Spirit”, which roved Mars for over 5 years until it got stuck in a soft soil.

Spirit, also known as MER-A(Mars Exploration Rover – A) or MER-2, is a robotic rover on Mars, active from 2004 to 2010.^[1] It was one of two roversofNASA’s ongoing Mars Exploration RoverMission. 

Learn more about this mission on official NASA websiteandWikipedia.

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This image was taken by Mast Camera (Mastcam) onboard NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 3466 (2022-05-07 07:58:16 UTC).

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

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POUR ONE OUT FOR COMRADE OPPORTUNITY 

and send a thank you postcard to the Opportunity team for all their hard work!

Perseverance: How to Land on Mars

Image Credit: NASA, JPL, Mars 2020

Explanation:Slung beneath its rocket powered descent stage Perseverance hangs only a few meters above the martian surface, captured here moments before its February 18 touchdown on the Red Planet. The breath-taking view followed an intense seven minute trip from the top of the martian atmosphere. Part of a high resolution video, the picture was taken from the descent stage itself during the final skycrane landing maneuver. Three taut mechanical cables about 7 meters long are visible lowering Perseverance, along with an electrical umbilical connection feeding signals (like this image), to a computer on board the car-sized rover. Below Perseverance streamers of martian dust are kicked-up from the surface by the descent rocket engines. Immediately after touchdown, the cables were released allowing the descent stage to fly to a safe distance before exhausting its fuel as planned.

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— 20.02.2021 —
countdown to mars.

[ two days late, this my tribute to celebrate perseverance’s amazing descent to mars on february 18, 2021. a good omen for her journey in the jezero crater, mars. I hope she’ll see incredible, amazing, unforgettable things. ]

March 1978 | Vol. 153, No. 3

A full rotation of the planet Mars (Hubble Captures By NASA)