On Thursday, a rocket with the Perseverance rover is to take off from the spaceport at Cape Canaveral towards Mars. NASA scheduled the start at 13.50 Polish time. The broadcast on TVN24 GO will start at 1.30 pm.
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Perseverance – from the English “persistence” – is another large Mars rover by the US space agency NASA. It weighs 1043 kg and is three meters long. The construction of this unmanned robotic vehicle took about eight years and cost two and a half billion dollars.
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The rover is equipped with many instruments and research systems. There is, among other things, a small autonomous helicopter that can be used for additional research on the Red Planet.
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