NASA agency determination Mars Rover is preparing to collect its first samples.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California said the rover was looking for scientifically interesting rocky target In the film Jezero Crater “Rough Cracked Floor Cracks”.
“Rough floor crack nozzle” is one of the deepest Maybe the oldest, accessible geological unit in the crater of a volcano.
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Samples are expected to be taken in the next two weeks The team is looking for For tips on having Ancient microbial life.
When Neil Armstrong took over The first sample of the Sea of Tranquility 52 years ago, he started a process that would rewrite what mankind knows monthThomas Zurbuchen, associate director of science at NASA Headquarters, He said in his statement. “I have every hope that the first sample of Perseverance from Jezero Crater, and the next, will do the same for Mars. We are on the cusp of a new era planetary science and discovery.”
The process starts with a 7ft explorer robot arm.
The arm will have the necessary tools at hand and then scan the image for scientists at Soil To determine the exact target location of the first sample as well as the second location in the same area for ‘proximity science’.
Furthermore, five persistence science tools will work together to “enable an unprecedented analysis of workplace geological materials.”
SuperCam and Mastcam-Z will partner with SHERLOC for the rover (Survey Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organic Materials and Chemicals), PIXL (Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithium Chemistry), and WATSON (Topographical Wide Angle Process Sensor and eEngineering) cameras. to provide metal and Chemical analysis Shoot, take high-resolution images, collect data, and measure the SuperCam laser output spectroscopic column.
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After pre-installation, JPL members who work diligently will limit their duties to Mars day or Mars day.
The rest will allow the rover to fully charge its battery.
On the day of sampling, the sampling arm is inside Adaptive caching assembly will recover sample tube, heat it up and insert it into the drill bit before the bit carousel picks up the tube and drills into the rotating drill in the persistence robot arm.
The arm would then drill a geological “twin” of untouched rock and fill the tube with core samples that were only a few inches long.
Finally, the robotic arm will transfer the bit and tube assembly back to the adaptive bit and buffer circuit where the sample will be hermetically imaged, measured, sealed and stored.
Perseverance will take about 11 days to complete the first sampling, according to the agency.
Perseverance lands on Mars on February 18th And the scientific phase begins on June 1.
In the future, rock and regolith samples collected by rovers and bunkers will be returned in missions along with ESA (European Space Agency).
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