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The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is part of NASA’s Moon to Mars exploration approach, which includes Artemis missions to the Moon that will help prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet. JPL, which is managed for NASA by Caltech in Pasadena, California, built and manages operations of the Perseverance rover.
Perseverance [2] is a car-sized Mars rover designed to explore the Jezero crater on Mars as part of NASA's Mars 2020 mission. It was manufactured by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and launched on July 30, 2020, at 11:50 UTC. [3]
Trujillo worked as flight director [29] on the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover robotic arm [30] and in February 2021, she hosted NASA's first Spanish-language planetary landing show. [31] She has been involved in several initiatives to inspire young women from Latin America and African-American women to pursue a career in science and engineering.
Sky crane is a soft landing system used in the last part of the entry, descent and landing (EDL) sequence developed by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory for its two largest Mars rovers, Curiosity and Perseverance. While previous rovers used airbags for landing, both Curiosity and Perseverance were too heavy to be landed this way. Instead, a ...
In addition, NASA announced in June 2019 that a student naming contest for the rover would be held in the fall of 2019, with voting on nine finalist names held in January 2020. [115] Perseverance was announced to be the winning name on March 5, 2020.
In psychology, grit is a positive, non-cognitive trait based on a person's perseverance of effort combined with their passion for a particular long-term goal or end state (a powerful motivation to achieve an objective). This perseverance of effort helps people overcome obstacles or challenges to accomplishment and drives people to achieve.
While Perseverance embarked on its first science campaign, Ingenuity continued to travel alongside the rover as part of its operations demonstration campaign. [11] Ingenuity's sixth through twenty-fifth flights were completed during this phase, achieving an at-the-time speed record of 5.5 meters per second.
She also worked on the SPHERES Zero Robotics competition for middle and high school students. At MIT, she was involved in the Graduate Student Council, Sidney-Pacific Residence Hall (including Sidney-Pacific Intercultural Exchange (SPICE)), [ 15 ] and Graduate Association of Aeronautics and Astronautics (GA^3) student organizations.