{"id":13129,"date":"2025-11-30T11:35:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T06:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13129"},"modified":"2025-12-02T11:48:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T06:18:34","slug":"perseverance-rover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/perseverance-rover\/","title":{"rendered":"Perseverance Rover"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Perseverance Rover Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a significant breakthrough, NASA&#8217;s Perseverance rover recently detected electrical activity in Mars&#8217; atmosphere for the first time. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Perseverance Rover<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perseverance, nicknamed <\/span><b>\u201cPercy\u201c,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a <\/span><b>semi-autonomous rover<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the <\/span><b>size of a small car <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">designed to <\/span><b>explore the surface of Mars.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is part of <\/span><b>NASA\u2019s ongoing Mars 2020 Mission.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Launch<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: It was launched on July 30, <\/span><b>2020<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, from Cape Canaveral, Florida.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Landing<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Successfully <\/span><b>landed <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on the surface of<\/span><b> Mar\u2019s Jezero Crater <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on February 18, <\/span><b>2021<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <\/span><b>first rover to actually land in an ancient Martian river delta,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> located inside the Jezero crater.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Main Job:<\/b> <b>Seek signs of ancient life<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>collect samples of rock and regolith<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (broken rock and soil) <\/span><b>for possible return to Earth.<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The rover will be able to detect organic matter and minerals, map the chemical composition of rocks and sediments, and zoom in on distant rocks and rugged terrain for further inspection.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The rover will <\/span><b>collect samples of rock and soil, encase them in tube<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s, and <\/span><b>leave them on the planet\u2019s surface to be returned to Earth <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at a future date.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the<\/span><b> first rover to record sounds on Mars <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>broadcast them back to Earth.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <\/span><b>first rover to create oxygen on Mars.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 Perseverance <\/span><b>carries an instrument called MOXIE,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which can g<\/span><b>enerate oxygen from Mars\u2019 carbon dioxide atmosphere.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Perseverance Rover <\/b><b>Features<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perseverance is built from the same <\/span><b>basic design as Curiosity,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which landed on Mars about a decade before Perseverance.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is about 3 metres long, 2.7 metres wide and 2.2 metres tall and its robotic arm is about 2.1 metres long.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is about the size of a car but weighs only about 1,025 kilograms with all instruments on board.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Power source:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (MMRTG). It<\/span><b> converts heat from the radioactive decay of plutonium into electricity.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has a rectangular body, six wheels, a robotic arm, a drill for sampling rocks, cameras and scientific instruments.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Key Facts about Ingenuity Helicopter<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>small, autonomous aircraft.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Main Job: Technology demonstration to test the first powered flight on Mars.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The helicopter <\/span><b>rode to Mars attached <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to the belly of the <\/span><b>Perseverance rover.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It became the<\/span><b> first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ingenuity uses <\/span><b>solar power<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to charge its batteries and can operate autonomously.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is about 0.5 metres tall and its rotor blades span 1.2 metres across.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It weighs about 1.8 kg and is equipped with computers, navigation systems and two cameras.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/world\/2025\/Nov\/29\/nasas-perseverance-detects-lightning-on-mars-for-the-first-time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NIE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perseverance Rover is a semi-autonomous rover the size of a small car designed to explore the surface of Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":75953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3956,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-13129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-perseverance-rover","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}