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[4] [5] As of 13 January 2025, Perseverance has been active on Mars for 1387 sols (1,425 Earth days, or 3 years, 10 months and 26 days) since its landing. Following the rover's arrival, NASA named the landing site Octavia E. Butler Landing. [6] [7] Perseverance has a similar design to its predecessor rover, Curiosity, although it was moderately ...
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.
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its right-front navigation camera to capture this first view over the rim of Jezero Crater on Dec. 10, 2024, the 1,354th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
Perseverance: 30 July 2020 [40] NASA United States: Rover Operational Landed on 18 February 2021 [41] Atlas V 541 Ingenuity: Helicopter Successful First aerodynamic flight on another planet. Landed with Perseverance rover on 18 February 2021. [42] Deployed from rover on 3 April 2021. First flight achieved on April 19, 2021. [43]
Located on an arrowhead-shaped, three-foot-long rock nicknamed “Cheyava Falls” in the Jezero Crater (the 28-mile-wide crater that Perseverance has called home for the past three years), this ...
First clear telescopic photograph of another world: the Moon. United States: John William Draper: 1845 First proper observation of other galaxies which are termed "whirlpool nebulae". UK: William Parsons: 1861 A Journey Through Space makes first proposal of using rockets for space flight. UK William Leitch: 1895 First proposal of space elevator ...
The spacecraft passed 3.8 million miles (6.1 million km) from the solar surface on Dec. 24, flying into the sun's outer atmosphere called the corona, on a mission to help scientists learn more ...
In May 2020, NASA attached a small aluminum plate to Perseverance to commemorate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and pay "tribute to the perseverance of healthcare workers around the world". The COVID-19 Perseverance Plate features planet Earth above the Rod of Asclepius, with a line showing the trajectory of the Mars 2020 spacecraft ...