The Perseverance Rover, along with several components used during the recent landing, was taken down from space.
The image, captured by the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, reveals the location of the parachute and the rear shell, the downhill road, the heat shield, and of course the Perseverance itself. The spacecraft’s Color and stereo surface imaging system was used to obtain the photo. Launched in 2016, TGO is a joint mission of the European Space Agency and Russia’s Roscosmos.
Perseverance landed in the Jezero crater on February 18 an event that NASA managed capture on film. ‘Jezero’ means ‘more’ in several Slavic languages, and that is exactly what this place was billions of years ago. Once the rover is on the move, the primary task will be to search for traces of ancient microbial life in this former body of water.
The descent stage is approximately 2,130 feet (650 meters) of the robber. It is the equipment propelled on the rocket, which used cables to lower the rover to the surface and then zipped away to fall at a safe distance.. The parachute and back shell are about 1200 meters northwest of the crossbeam, while the heat protection is about 450 meters to the northeast.
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Track Gas Orbit acquired this image five days after landing. Thediscarded objects will become more difficult to spot over time, because they are increasingly covered by Mars dust in the coming years and decades.
In addition to this image, the track assisted during the descent and landing, as a data relay station for NASA. The satellite’s primary mission is to search for atmospheric gases linked to geological – and possible biological – processes on Mars. Track gas bypass recently made headlines by discovering a previously unnoticed chemical process on Mars, though a process unrelated to life.