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This animation exhibits NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover amassing a pattern from a rock the science group calls “Bunsen Peak” utilizing a coring bit on the top of its robotic arm. It was the twenty first rock core collected by Perseverance, and the twenty fourth pattern general for the mission. The pattern was collected on March 11, 2024, the 1,088th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
The 33 photographs that make up this animation had been taken by one of many rover’s entrance hazard cameras. The animation has been sped up by 390 occasions.
A key goal for Perseverance’s mission on Mars is astrobiology, together with the seek for indicators of historic microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet’s geology and previous local weather, pave the best way for human exploration of the Purple Planet, and be the primary mission to gather and cache Martian rock and regolith.
Subsequent NASA missions, in cooperation with ESA (European House Company), would ship spacecraft to Mars to gather these sealed samples from the floor and return them to Earth for in-depth evaluation.
The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is a part of NASA’s Moon to Mars exploration strategy, which incorporates Artemis missions to the Moon that can assist put together for human exploration of the Purple Planet.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is managed for the company by Caltech, constructed and manages operations of the Perseverance rover.
For extra about Perseverance: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/
