WALL – The Perseverance team at NASA announced in a message they shared on Twitter on Tuesday that they came across pieces of the thermal blanket that was wrapped around the vehicle to protect it from extreme weather changes during its descent to the surface of Mars.
According to the news in BBC Turkish, the team stated that they encountered this sight 2 kilometers from the point where the robot landed last year, “It is very surprising to find this here. Did this piece come here during the landing or was it carried here by the wind?” used the expressions.
My team has spotted something unexpected: It’s a piece of a thermal blanket that they think may have come from my descent stage, the rocket-powered jet pack that set me down on landing day back in 2021. pic.twitter.com/O4rIaEABLu
— NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover (@NASAPersevere) June 15, 2022
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The Perseverance spacecraft completed its seven-month journey in February 2021 and successfully landed on Mars.
The one-ton vehicle had landed in a crater called Jezero, which was thought to have been a giant lake billions of years ago. The vehicle searches for traces of past life on the Red Planet. The data obtained by Perseverance, which can obtain microscopic images thanks to the equipment on it, is evaluated by sending it to Earth.
Prior to Perseverance, research on the habitability of more planets was conducted in Mars missions.
In the 2000s, Spirit and Opportunity surveyed the planet, and recently Curiosity revealed that Mars was once a hotter and wetter planet. (NEWS CENTER)
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