Questions tagged [perseverance]
Perseverance is a NASA Mars rover launched in July 2020 and landed in Jezero crater in February 2021. Use with the [mars] tag when asking about the environment it's in. Use with [ingenuity] when asking about its helicopter drone.
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Will the Emirate Mars Mission, Tianwen-1 and Mars 2020 Mission get closer to each other or spread out on their way to Mars?
Background & Introduction: On August 2, 2020 the brand new Where Is Roadster page Spacecraft launched to Mars in 2020 (announced here) said that it had been:
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Why is NASA sending wavy grousers to Mars?
In this answer to What are the lines on the wheels of the Perseverance rover called? Are they different than Curiosity's? and in sources linked therein we've learned that the lines across the business ...
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What are the lines on the wheels of the Perseverance rover called? Are they different than Curiosity's?
CNET's NASA narrows down Mars 2020 rover names: Hello, Fido? includes the image below.
I'm not sure if the rover is moving and a rolling shutter was in use, or if the lines on the wheels are really ...
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Has ChemCam been used to characterize the martian atmosphere?
Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) can be used to measure the composition of a solid, a liquid or a gas.
LIBS is the technology used in ChemCam of the Curiosity rover and in the SuperCam of ...
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Will InSight be able to pick up vibrations from the landing of Perseverance or Tianwen?
In roughly six months, two spacecrafts will be landing on Mars. Will the seismometers on InSight be able to detect vibrations from any of those landings?
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Will MOXIE get clogged or chemically degraded by martian dust?
MIXIE, the Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment is an experiment on the Perseverance rover currently on its way to Mars, that will test solid oxide electrolysis as a way to extract oxygen from atmospheric ...
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Why do Ingenuity's legs differ?
In the pictures below, I notice that not all of the legs of Ingenuity are the same (look at the end of them, directly touching the surface). It looks like a single one is different than the other 3.
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MMRTG- thermal and electrical output
I haven’t been able to find a definitive number for the thermal output (in watts) of the MMRTG used aboard the Perseverance rover. The numbers I’ve seen range from 1950 watts to over 2000. I also ...
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What specifically does "Safe Mode" mean for Perseverance?
An older question asks about safe mode in general. I am curious about Perseverance's safe mode in particular. For instance, in the previous question, solar powered spacecraft start looking for the ...
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Is Perseverance still in Safe Mode?
Messages in The Pod Bay and Space.com's NASA: Mars rover Perseverance in 'safe mode' after launch, but should recover both said that Perseverance was in "Safe Mode".
Is it still?
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Which operating system is Perseverance running?
A few days ago, I watched Perseverance being launched towards Mars.
I know that there is lots of very specific hardware embedded into the rover, so, very likely, there has been software written by ...
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Is there any current imagery of Mars2020?
Are there any current photos or video from the Mars2020 spacecraft, or since the first burn? It would be cool to check on this daily/weekly.
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Could Ingenuity stay warmer at night by landing on (or near) Perseverance's RTG?
One concern in How long could the Mars helicopter Ingenuity keep up with the Perseverance rover if it wanted to? is that the helicopter must cycle its battery every night to stay warm, and that could ...
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How could the landing date of Perseverance Rover be fixed irrespective of 26 days launch window?
I am very much aware of this question from 2018 by @uhoh - Why would InSight's arrival date at Mars be fixed, and independent of the launch date?. I was led here by a similar question which arose in ...
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Will the Mars 2020 rocket be visible in the night sky?
When a Space X rocket was launched towards the ISS this year, the rocket could be seen in the night sky in Europe. The information as to where and when to look in the sky was even easily available ...
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Will Perseverance's landing be live streamed?
I know that the launch will be live streamed, but I am interested in the landing.
Is there a plan to make it possible for the general public to get access to landing video as soon as mission control? ...
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Is there a specific reason why NASA put MOXIE on a rover?
MOXIE or The Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment is to be sent to Mars as a part of Perseverance's scientific payload.
Sure the experiment is much needed and very anticipated, and ...
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Will the Mars 2020 rover's sensitivity to methane be better than Curiosity's?
The New York Times article NASA Rover on Mars Detects Puff of Gas That Hints at Possibility of Life describes the newest detection of a "whiff" of methane on Mars.
The article states that ...
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How does the Mars 2020 rover's suspension and center of gravity compare to Curiosity's?
Gizmodo's NASA Put Wheels on Its Mars 2020 Rover and Holy Crap This Is Actually Happening says:
The tube-like legs that support the wheels are constructed from titanium, and they’re similar to high-...
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Now that Perseverance is "hot" (RTG in place) and before it gets to deep space, how will it stay cool?
As soon as they are assembled MMRTGs continuously produce about 2,000 watts of heat energy. That dips only slightly when they are connected to a load and producing electrical power (about 125 watts ...
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What is the equivalent of Curiosity's "MSL" in the context of Perseverance? What's the official name of the mission? Are the distinctions similar?
Answers to Where does MSL end and Curiosity begin? explain the difference. There was much fanfare for the naming contest for the Perseverance rover, but I don't know what the mission is called.
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How was Jezero crater selected?
Perseverance is going to land in Jezero crater. How was this landing site selected? I assume there were several landing sites that were considered, and different scientists wanted the rover to land in ...
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Mars 2020: What are the advantages of doing two missions to return samples?
The Mars 2020 plans to create a cache with samples for a future mission to grab and bring back. What are the advantages of doing one mission to create the cache and one mission to bring the cache back ...
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Are there (detailed) images or diagrams of the rotating drill carousel and the small robotic arm which are housed in the belly of Perseverance?
The sample handling page at the Mars 2020 mission site shows us the rover with at its front a circle that probably contains the rotating drill carousel ?
However it states that the belly of the rover ...
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Why are Perseverance's wheels flatter?
As visible in the image above (and as most of you would have noticed!) the wheels on the upcoming NASA/JPL rover Perseverance seems to be largely different from Curiosity's wheels. A notable ...
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Are Mars rovers in continuous contact with Earth when in line of sight?
The NASA Perseverance rover
Communications page describes the Ultra-High Frequency Antenna, the X-band High-Gain Antenna, and the X-band Low-Gain Antenna but does not mention how often it will be in ...
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Kinematic and Dynamic viscosity on Mars
I've been looking at the Mars helicopter (Ingenuity) that will be onboard the Mars 2020 rover and I am having trouble figuring out how they determined the size of the rotor blades. Specifically, I'm ...
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Could Mars Rovers be lighter or faster if they didn't have to be tested on Earth?
Watching this video of Perserverance being tested on Earth, it occurred to me that requiring it to stand, drive, climb, etc. under 1g is, in some sense, overkill. Could this (or other) rovers be made ...
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Balancing Perseverance Mars Rover; couldn't they just "move stuff around a little" rather than add 6+ kg of dead weight?
The NASA News item NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover Gets Balanced says:
Just as an auto mechanic places small weights on a car tire's rim to bring it into balance, the Perseverance team analyzed the ...
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Why is the northeastern region of Syrtis Major Planum a selected landing site for the Mars 2020 mission?
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One of the 3 selected landing sites, on the left side of Jezero crater, which is also selected !
A workshop for the Mars 2020 Rover mission was held in February 2017 that selected 3 ...
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Will the Mars 2020 rover be able to record high-framerate video of its helicopter?
According to this answer, there have been no instances of video recorded from beyond lunar orbit. Mostly, this makes sense as rovers and spacecraft are served just as well with pictures and nothing ...
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Will Curiosity and the Mars 2020 rover be able to communicate with each other via a Mars orbiter?
Curiosity's UHF antenna on sol 2439
Could Curiosity and the Mars 2020 rover communicate with each other via the MRO orbiter ?
And would it have advantages ? (Like: " I just saw a meteorite, and it'...
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Will there be live HD television from Mars with the Mars 2020 mission?
Is it known if live HD television from Mars would be possible with the Mars 2020 rover mission and if an extra channel would be possible just for relaying HD TV to make live broadcasts possible ?
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What were the 21 potential landing sites for the Mars 2020 mission?
In August 2015 more than 150 scientists attended a conference to evaluate 21 potential landing sites for NASA's next rover, a mission called Mars 2020.
Out of those proposed landing sites the Mars ...
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Why not a landing platform with solar cells on the Mars 2020 rover for the helicopter scout?
In May 2018 the Mars Helicopter Scout (MHS) was approved to fly on the Mars 2020 mission.
Author: NASA/JPL-Caltec.
It's a solar powered helicopter drone with a mass of 1.8 kg and a coaxial rotor ...
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Curiosity and Mars 2020 power supply during cruise phase
1) Is the rover itself powered on during the cruise to Mars?
2) If so, does that power come from the MMRTG on the rover, or is power supplied to the rover by the cruise stage?
3) If not, would the ...
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Why is it so important to visit Columbia Hills in Gusev Crater again?
One of the proposed landing sites for the rover mission Mars 2020 are the Columbia Hills in Gusev Crater, where the Spirit rover landed and has been active there from 2004 to 2010.
This was a very ...
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What are the drawbacks using an intelligent bulldozer on Mars for the assistance of a rover?
Already in 2011 NASA Ames Research Center proposed a Mars mission called Red Dragon that would use a Falcon Heavy.
A SpaceX 2015 estimation was 2,000-4,000 kg to the surface of Mars with a soft ...
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