Not only is Instagram users and holiday makers taking selfies – even robots enter this event. This new image of NASA perseverance Rover shows a personal photo outside this world, taken as a Rover collection, the latest sample of Mars rock music.
It was taken on May 10, a personal photo was placed to celebrate 1500 Rover on Mars. With one day on Mars is slightly longer than Earth Day, in about 24 hours and 39 minutes, NASA measures its tasks in Mars in “SOLS” or Martian Days. In addition to being a fun picture of scientists and the public to enjoy it, it gives the engineering team on the ground an opportunity to check the appearance and case of Rover as it has been exploring since its landing in February 2021.
You can see a lot of red dust that covers the Rover, where the surface of Mars is covered in a dusty material called Reagole, which gives the planet its famous red color. Dust can be the challenge facing Mars missions, as everywhere when it is overcome due to huge dirt storms and can cause problems through electronics and covering solar panels. Fortunately for perseverance, Rover may seem slightly laughing from the outside, but its basic functions are still working well.
“After 1500 episodes, we may be somewhat dust, but our beauty is more than the depth of the skin,” said Art Thompson, Director of the Palmek Payment Project at NASA’s jet laboratory. “Our radioactive photovoltaic generator gives us the multi -fee of the strength we need. All our systems and sub -systems in green and click along, and our amazing tools continue to provide data that will feed scientific discoveries for years to come.”
Even with all the tools that work properly, although getting Rover to take a personal photo is not a quick job. The photo was taken using a Watson camera (the wide topography and engineering sensor), which is located at the end of its automatic arm. Since Rover was working to take a personal photo, it also caught with an unexpected light: the wind feature called Dust Devil that appeared in the background.
“To get this special shape, each Watson image must have its own unique vision,” Migan Wu, a perfect photography scientist in Malen. “This means that we had to make 62 accurate movements for the automatic arm. The entire process takes about an hour, but it deserves it. The presence of a dust devil in the background makes it classic. This is a great snapshot.”
With her celebrations on hand, Rover is now moving to investigate a new area of Mars: an area called “Krokodillle” after a series of Norwegian mountain hills. This area is especially exciting because it is believed to have some of the oldest rocks on Mars, which can help open the secrets of how to form the solar system.
Here on Earth, our planet contains a system of tectonic in which parts of the planet’s crust are gradually pulled towards the scarf when they meet in the rift line. This means that rocks on Earth are mainly recycled in a continuous cycle of melting inwards in the planet and then rising and cooling to become part of the surface. For this reason there are very few old rocks on earth.
On Mars, however, it is a different story. Mars does not have a plate tanks, so old rocks can remain on their surface for billions of years. Some of them are 4 billion years old, or even older, so the study can help scientists know how to form rocky planets in our solar system about 4.5 billion years ago.
To study these very old rocks, although perseverance needs to be found first. It is believed that there are very old rocks along the edge of the huge hole in which Rover fell, called Jezero. Jezero Crate is about 30 miles away, most likely created by a huge meteorite effect billions of years ago. When he criticized this object on the surface of Mars, he threw large quantities of materials such as large pieces of rocks that have landed nearly and still exist to this day.
This means that by looking at the edge of the hole, perseverance can search for these old pieces of rocks and use their tools to study them. This can also help to answer an important question in particular, scientists want to understand, which is the time when water was on Mars. They know that although Mars is dry and restricted today, he had abundant liquid water on its surface. It may be very similar to the Earth at one point – and we know that water is necessary to form life.
What scientists do not agree on is exactly the time that water spent on Mars, and whether it will be present for a long time enough to give a possible life the opportunity to develop there. So knowing the date of the loss of Mars is an essential part of the planet’s understanding and whether it can support life.
To this end, perseverance will remain monitoring of mud minerals that are formed in the presence of water, and perhaps even formed before the effect that created the hole. These can contain possible signs of life, called biosignatures, such as organic compounds.
“If we find a potential vital signature here, it is likely that it will be from a completely different era and based on the development of Mars from the one we found last year,” said Ken Farley, NASA world. “Krokodilllen rocks were formed before the creation of Jezero Crate, during the first geological period of Mars, The Noachian, which is among the oldest rocks on Mars.”
