NASA's Perseverance Landed Successfully - TouchDown Confirmed

 

After a decade of preparation, NASA's Perseverance lander successfully landed Mars. Now it will begin to look for signs of life on the Red Planet.

Touchdown confirmed. The #CountdownToMars is complete, but the mission is just beginning. pic.twitter.com/UvOyXQhhN9

— NASA (@NASA) February 18, 2021

As we huddled together during the "seven minutes of fear" entry, the NASA mechanical star rover of Mars 2020 completed its nearly seven-month journey to its new home: the mysterious Jezero Crater.

First Low Resolution image of Mars from perseverance!

"Touchdown has confirmed! Safe perseverance in the face of Mars, ready to start looking for signs of past life," air traffic controller Swati Mohan announced on those last minutes of nail biting in mechanical control.

Every step of the way, the arrival process takes place without interruption, space entry, descent, and touch happens exactly as expected.

The perseverance capsule carrying the Perseverance - with the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter strapped to its abdomen - is held in the Martian space at 19,000 km / h (12,000 mph).

To slow down, the artwork used thrusters and opened the largest NASA parachute ever sent to another planet - the key to safely lowering a Perseverance rover-sized entry-level capsule. At 3:55 pm EST, mechanical control confirmed that Persistence is alive on the face of Mars.

Landing Explained!

Now? While scientists, engineers and space lovers around the world are celebrating a moment of history, this is just the beginning of Perseverance's commitment to the Red Planet.

The Mars 2020 mission has four major scientific objectives, which are aimed at supporting NASA's comprehensive Mars exploration program.

The main goal is to identify areas on the Red Planet that may once have supported biological health.

Jezero Crater was chosen as a place to sit because it is one of the most promising places to look for signs of such ancient life, although it is also a dangerous place on earth, with many rocks, sand dunes, and small holes in and around. the bowl.

Still, it is worth the risk. The region contains the remains of an ancient river town, and the Jezero Crater itself once flooded the lake, which may have preserved the ancient remains.

The rover - the most complex yet NASA sent to Mars - has been fitted with a number of tools and equipment, including a drill that will collect basic rock samples and Martian soil, which will be stored for future mission.

The rover will also monitor atmospheric oxygen levels to provide important details for future human experiments.

Within seconds of his arrival, Perseverance took several photographs from dusty front and rear cameras. Low resolution images are already available, and high-resolution photos will be available later this week.

The High resolution images will be available a week from now. 

Hopefully me too landed on Mars!! No shock, But virtually

Wait for more updates on the perseverance and flight statistics.