The Perseverance rover, along with several components used during the recent landing, have been captured from space.
He image, captured by ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, reveals the location of the parachute and the rear casing, the descent stage, the heat shield and of course the Perseverance rover itself. That of the spaceship Color and stereo surface imaging system was used to acquire the photo. Launched in 2016, TGO is a joint mission of the European Space Agency and that of Russia Roscosmos.
Perseverance landed in Jezero Crater on February 18 an event that NASA achieved capture in the cinema. “Jezero” means “lake” in several Slavic languages, which is precisely what this place used to be billions of years ago. Once the rover moves, its main task will be to look for traces of ancient microbial life within this ancient body of water.
The descent stage is about 2,130 feet (650 meters) of the rover. This is the rocket-powered equipment that used cables to lower the rover to the surface and then zipped it to collide at a safe distance.. The parachute and the bottom are approximately 1,200 meters northwest of the rover, while the heat shield is about 1,450 meters northeast.
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Trace Gas Orbiter acquired this image five days after landing. Hediscarded objects will be harder to see over time as they will be more and more covered by Martian dust the next few years and decades.
In addition to this image, the orbit assisted during descent and landing, acting as a data transmission station for NASA. The satellite The main mission is to search for atmospheric gases related to geological and possible biological processes on Mars. Trace gas orbiter he has recently made headlines by discovering one that had not been previously detected chemical process on Mars, although it is a process not associated with life.