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Perseverance mission
NASA’s rover Perseverance, the most advanced astrobiology laboratory ever sent to another world, has landed safely on the floor of Jezero Crater on Mars.
The Perseverance rover weighs less than 2,300 pounds and is managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab.
It is a part of the mission named ‘Mars 2020’.
The rover’s mission will be to search for signs of past microbial life. It will also collect samples of Martian rocks and dust, according to the release.
All of NASA’s previous Mars rovers — including the Sojourner (1997), Spirit and Opportunity (2004) and Curiosity (exploring Mars since 2012) — were named in this way.
Objectives of the mission
Identify past environments capable of supporting microbial life.
Seek signs of possible past microbial life in those habitable environments, particularly in special rocks known to preserve signs over time.
Collect core rock and regolith (“soil”) samples and store them on the Martian surface.
Test oxygen production from the Martian atmosphere
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