NASA's Perseverence Rover to Mars

After a seven months journey from Earth, the NASA Perseverance is in its final stretch towards the destination Mars.

About the Perseverance rover:

Launched in July of 2020.
It is expected to touch down on Mars at the Jezero Crater.
The primary task of Perseverance is to seek signs of ancient life and collect samples of rock and regolith to possibly return these to Earth.
Perseverance is fueled by electrical power by using the heat of plutonium’s radioactive decay.
NASA Perseverance gets shape memory alloys to remain steady on the surface of Mars.

Why is this mission significant?

Perseverance will carry a unique instrument, MOXIE or Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment which will manufacture molecular oxygen on Mars using carbon dioxide from the carbon-dioxide-rich atmosphere (ISRU means In Situ Resource Utilization: or the use of local resources to meet human needs or requirements of the spacecraft).
It will carry Ingenuity, the first ever helicopter to fly on Mars. This is the first time NASA will fly a helicopter on another planet or satellite.

Previous Mars Missions by NASA:

NASA has been sending rovers to Mars since 1997 when the Mars Pathfinder Mission was initiated.
The second time, the space organization sent twin rovers, Spirit and Opportunity to Mars in 2003.
The third attempt was by sending Curiosity in 2012.

Source: TH

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