Perseverance New 2020 Mars Rover based on MSL

SpaceNut · 2021-02-18 19:24:55

Path of possible discovery

louis · 2021-02-19 18:18:30

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech … cords.html

The scientists are apparently intrigued by those rocks close to the rover wheels. Full of holes like a Swiss cheese. Could be indicative of life.

It's weird how this mission is so "life-friendly" unlike all previous missions. NASA have had 50 years to put life-finder tech on Mars and have signally failed to do so.

Excuse my paranoia but it would make sense for NASA to now provide "findings of life" evidence to the UN planetary protection mob who can then use it to lobby against human missions to Mars.

SpaceNut · 2021-02-19 20:28:10

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseverance_(rover)

https://marsnext.jpl.nasa.gov/workshops … nts_v6.pdf

The Radar Imager for Mars’ Subsurface Experiment (RIMFAX) is a Ground Penetrating Radar on the Mars 2020 mission’s Perseverance rover, which is planned to land near a deltaic landform in Jezero crater. RIMFAX will add a new dimension to rover investigations of Mars by providing the capability to image the shallow subsurface beneath the rover.

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mission/ … ding-site/

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com … 20GL091651
Periodic Bedrock Ridges at the ExoMars 2022 Landing Site: Evidence for a Changing Wind Regime

https://www.spacedaily.com/news/mars-mers-04zt.html
Depth To Bedrock, Zero

SpaceNut · 2021-02-21 10:21:49

Selfie image released of skycrane lowering rover

In the meantime, new pictures from the rover's dramatic descent and possibly video are expected by Monday when NASA plans another news briefing.

you can see the dust kicked up by the crane engines firing

SpaceNut · 2021-02-23 20:22:23

There's a secret code in the Mars rover's parachute Eu4sc41VkAAS7to?format=jpg&name=small

For the first time, we have an audio recording from the surface of Mars - take a listen

SpaceNut · 2021-03-06 19:35:23

Mars rover travels 6.5 metres in ‘flawless’ first drive BB1ei6jI.img?h=599&w=799&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f

Does not seem like much but its a start...

Taking directions from mission managers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) near Los Angeles, the rover rolled four metres (13.1 feet) forward, turned about 150 degrees to its left and then drove backwards another 2.5 meters (8.2 feet) for a total of 6.5 metres (21.3 feet) during its half-hour test within Jezero Crater, site of an ancient, long-vanished lake bed and river delta on Mars.

We finally know how NASA is going to get its Mars samples back

Northrop Grumman’s selection for new projects have been costly in the past....

SpaceNut · 2021-03-07 09:08:59

This is a follow up
NASA Awards Mars Ascent Propulsion System Contract for Sample Return

The cost-plus, fixed-fee contract has a potential mission services value of $60.2 million and a maximum potential value of $84.5 million. Work on MAPS begins immediately with a 14-month base period, followed by two option periods that may be exercised at NASA's discretion.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/mars- … return-msr

Coupled with the successful touchdown of the Mars Perseverance rover, this award moves NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) one step closer to realizing Mars Sample Return (MSR), a highly ambitious planetary exploration program that will build upon decades of science, knowledge, and experience of Mars exploration.

This seems more in Northrup Grumman's wheel house to achieve at cost...

SpaceNut · 2021-03-08 20:30:50

visible part of the remnant is around 660 feet across,

SpaceNut · 2021-03-11 21:59:41

Perseverance rover sends back sounds of zapping rocks on Mars
https://soundcloud.com/nasa/perseverance-mars-supercam-laser-impacts-on-rock-target/s-5xUEkUbSPpW

SpaceNut · 2021-03-13 14:14:15

Locally named features being chosen to honor the Navajo Nation first by NASA names new features on Mars in Navajo language

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Scientists on the team say that they welcome the chance to learn Navajo words and their meaning.
The Perseverance team has a list of 50 names to start with for future uncovered terrain. The team will continue to work with the Navajo Nation on more names as the rover further explores the red planet.
"Tséwózí bee hazhmeezh," which means "Rolling rows of pebbles, like waves"
"Bidziil," which means "strength"
"Hoł nilį́," which means "respect"
"Ha'ahóni," meaning "perseverance"

Listed in the article are these others
"Máaz," the Navajo word for "Mars."

The spot where the rover landed has been named "Tséyi," for Arizona's Canyon de Chelly National Monument, located in the heart of Navajo Nation.

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SpaceNut · 2021-03-31 18:28:43

Zapping rocks with laser

https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEM … id=US%3Aen

SpaceNut · 2021-04-01 19:19:08

Video images from March 26
https://youtu.be/2_dtkek-AnI

SpaceNut · 2021-04-21 19:40:22

one experiment down and another is now ready to go NASA's Perseverance rover just turned CO2 into oxygen. The technology could help future astronauts breathe on Mars.

5.4 grams, enough to keep an astronaut healthy for 10 minutes

SpaceNut · 2021-04-25 12:34:46

Perseverance Rover will peer beneath Mars' surface
RIMFAX will be the first ground-penetrating radar set on the surface of Mars.

Short for Radar Imager for Mars' Subsurface Experiment, RIMFAX can provide a highly detailed view of subsurface structures down to at least 30 feet (10 meters) underground. In doing so, the instrument will reveal hidden layers of geology and help find clues to past environments on Mars, especially those that may have provided the conditions necessary for supporting life.

SpaceNut · 2021-04-26 19:18:21

Perseverance rover travels at a top speed of less than 0.1 miles per hour.

Wow I think the tortoise just pasted the rover... nah never mind...

Mars_B4_Moon · 2021-06-01 08:23:37

"Nasa's Perseverance rover's first 100 days in pictures"
https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-57233756

NASA wants more money while China releases first photos from Mars

Musk also seem to have missions planned

SpaceNut · 2021-06-01 18:47:10

I greatly enjoyed the many images in the article Mars_B4_Moon...

Nasa is caught between the old contractors and the upstarts that are not following all the same rules of test, production that the old guard are using.

The failures would not be tolerated if it was not for the low cost to begin with....

JPL built a copy of the Perseverance; a twin rover used for testing and problem solving, OPTIMISM (Operational Perseverance Twin for Integration of Mechanisms and Instruments Sent to Mars), a vehicle system test bed (VSTB). It is housed at the JPL Mars Yard and is used to test operational procedures and to aid in problem solving should any issues arise with Perseverance

Perseverance heavier, weighing 1,025 kg (2,260 lb) compared to Curiosity at 899 kg (1,982 lb)—a 14% increase.

Sky crane
fueled cruise stage (539 kg)

8 × MR-80B (skycrane)
The descent stage is a platform above the rover with eight variable thrust monopropellant hydrazine rocket thrusters on arms extending around this platform to slow the descent. Each rocket thruster, called a Mars Lander Engine (MLE), produces 400 to 3,100 N

The spacecraft has a launch weight 3839 kg consisting of the 899 kg rover, the 2401 kg EDL System (Aeroshell and fueled descent stage), including 390 kg of landing propellant and the 539 kg fueled cruise stage.

SpaceNut · 2021-06-12 12:50:42

2 stunning panoramas show life on Mars through the eyes and ears of NASA's Perseverance rover] AAKYjcs.img?h=600&w=799&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f

First road trip
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SpaceNut · 2021-08-15 17:58:01

Perseverance’s first sample collection fails, new science points to subsurface Martian clay lakes

Appears to lose to get a core of hard rock which would seem like clay at the bottom of a lake bed.

SpaceNut · 2021-09-04 16:57:30

Finally a drilled sample
Persverance drilled into the briefcase-sized rock, nicknamed "Rochette" AAO6CeC.img?h=450&w=799&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f

SpaceNut · 2021-10-01 22:41:01

There is a dot in the picture Tiny Perseverance on Mars AAP1vOm.img?h=324&w=799&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f

The mission of MRO, which has been in orbit since 2006, is primarily to study the atmosphere and large-scale geology of Mars.

It will be a couple of weeks of radio silence as the sun is between us.

SpaceNut · 2021-11-20 12:13:57

"Perseverance and its team have come a long way over the past 8 months of operation on the surface of Mars,"

Its been that long already?

NASA's Perseverance rover scrapes at Martian rock to 'look at something no one's ever seen'

SpaceNut · 2021-12-29 10:14:18

https://blogs.nasa.gov/mars2020/
page is not being updated..how disappointing

SpaceNut · 2022-01-08 19:27:15

so much for getting all of the rock samples for a return mission as Mars Perseverance halts rock sample storage due to debris

SpaceNut · 2022-01-27 19:00:54

Perseverance Rover Has Shaken Out the Pebbles Stuck in Its Sampling System

The rover has 43 sample tubes aboard, seven (7) of which have been filled so far

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