We Need To Talk About How Insane The New Mars Rover Is
The Engineering of The Future
On July 30th, 2020 the Atlas 5 Rock left Earth’s atmosphere and headed towards the Martian planet, carrying with it was something new… The Perseverance Rover and its little brother, Ingenuity, an autonomous Helicopter.
On February 18th, 2021 Perseverance made history successfully landing on the surface of Mars near Jezero Crater. The reason that this landing is monumental is that not only is the success rate of landing on Mars only about 40% but this Rover will be the first step to our eventual arrival on Mars.
This trip is not only one of the most important but also one of the most difficult. This time around the rover had a much smaller and tighter landing area to reach, which meant advancing the way the craft will land was just as important as advancing the cargo.
The Mission
The landing site this time around will be much smaller than previous explorations, (4.8 mi x 4.1 mil) on Jezero Crater. This means that even the landing will be much more advanced this time around.
