The US space agency “NASA” announced on Friday that the probe “Perseverance” has managed to travel a few meters on Mars since it landed on the surface two weeks ago.
The six-wheeled mobile robot advanced four meters on Thursday afternoon, then turned left and then pulled in about two and a half meters to see if its operating systems were working properly.
“Perseverance” could take its own wheels on the surface of Mars, published by NASA. The wanderer crossed six and a half meters within 33 minutes.
Look for clues to ancient life
“I do not think I have ever been as happy as I was when I saw the wheel tracks,” said the engineer responsible for robot mobility at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which designed the vehicle. The engineer noted at a press conference that the first phase of the investigation had progressed very well and his mission had completed a ‘very important step’.
The spacecraft can move up to 200 meters on each Mars (slightly longer than Earth). It drives five times as fast as any other Curiosity rover still operating on Mars.
Mobile Android “Preference” landed on the surface of Mars on February 18th. The last thing on the Gizero crater that scientists say was a deep lake about 3.5 billion years ago.
Thirty rock samples from the planet will be examined within two years, and another vehicle will return to Earth to find evidence of ancient life on the Red Planet.
Scientists are now observing two journeys from a mobile robot to the delta, formed by an ancient river flowing into the lake.
The first laser shot of ‘Supercam’
Before that, the helicopter will launch a small “ingenuity” under the vehicle, which will be the first motor vehicle to fly in the atmosphere of another planet. NASA teams are looking for the best place to conduct this historic experiment “before the end of spring,” mission chief Robert Hogg promised Friday.
“Priority So far, his cameras have taken more than 7,000 images on earth. On February 24, NASA released a remarkable panoramic image that collected several shots taken at the landing site of the mobile robot, showing the top of the Jessero crater.
One of the photos of the vehicle shows a light brown rock. In its analysis, a scientific tool called ‘Supercom’ was used for the first time. NASA expects to present the results next week.
The US space agency also named the landing site ‘Perseverance’ after Octavia e-Butler, a science fiction writer born in Pasadena, California, where JPL is located.