Official Landing on Feb 18th (screenshot only)
We are now 1 day away from NASA’s Perseverance Rover touching down on Mars, Perseverance’s journey started on July 30 at 4:50 a.m. PDT and has spent a long 7 months in space. The entry, descent, and landing, which is also known as the
7 minutes of terror are this rover’s first challenge before even setting its wheels on the most challenging terrain ever to be discovered. 10 minutes before Perseverance enters Mars’ atmosphere the spacecraft, which had a role of supporting it, is removed allowing the Rover space to travel at 12-13 thousand miles per hour as it enters the Martian territory. However, at this speed, it is 100% certain that it will crash on touch down so friction with the atmosphere is used to slow it down. These last minutes are a changing factor for any rover, a parachute needs to open to slow down the descent, which in fact doesn’t slow it down enough, and then the retro rockets need to
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