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After almost 470 million kilometers, NASA’s Perseverance rover will complete its trip to Mars next month, exactly on February 18, With the aim of searching for traces of past life in the Jezero crater. However, to reach the surface of the Red Planet, it must survive the poignant final phase known as Entry, Descent and Landing.
In the span of approx ‘Seven minutes of terror’, As known to NASA in this maneuvering class, the spacecraft slows by about 20 thousand kilometers per hour at the top of the Martian atmosphere at almost 3 kilometers per hour at the time of landing.
This will be the arrival on Mars
the NASA has shared a video of just over three minutes in which the dizzying one is recreated arrival on Mars of the spacecraft. It all starts with the descent of the capsule where he travels Perseverance from the Martian orbit. The thermal shield allows to resist the heat by friction to the contact with the atmosphere of the red planet.
After this phase, a parachute slows the capsule, Until its base comes off and Perseverance falls, Adhered to a structure with motors that guide the vehicle to its exact destination. In the last meters, the structure takes off the rover with a system of cables until it is placed on the ground and he finally withdraws from the area.
Perseverance will look for signs of ancient microbial life on Mars, Will collect and store Martian rocks and regoliths (broken rock and dust) so that future missions will take them to Earth, characterize the geology and climate of the planet and will pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet.
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