Perseverance Rover Landing On Mars. While the agency has completed other missions to mars, the $2.7 billion robotic explorer, named perseverance, carries. Read more about the launch here.
Perseverance is scheduled to land on mars on feb. This entry capsule will succumb to mars' gravity and plummet towards the planet, protecting perseverance with a heat shield. The perseverance rover landed on mars at 20:55 gmt (15:55 et) after almost seven months travelling from earth.
Read more about the launch here.
According to nasa, during landing, the rover will plunge through the planet's thin atmosphere, with a heat shield first, at a speed of about 20,000kph, before a parachute and powered descent slow the rover down to about. Nasa's perseverance rover successfully landed on mars on february 18 just before 4 p.m. The rover's landing mechanism then fired eight retrorockets to slow down and guide it to a proper landing spot before using nylon cords to lower it onto the the first image captured by nasa's perseverance rover of the surface of mars after its successful landing on thursday, feb. 18, 2021, nasa's mars perseverance rover makes its final descent to the red planet.
Post a Comment
Post a Comment