{"id":2502,"date":"2023-02-01T04:35:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T23:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=2502"},"modified":"2025-03-25T22:12:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T16:42:52","slug":"what-is-nasas-perseverance-rover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-nasas-perseverance-rover\/","title":{"rendered":"What is NASA\u2019s Perseverance rover?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Why in News?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The tube will be part of a depot that will be considered for the return to Earth as part of the Mars Sample Return Campaign.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>About Perseverance rover:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is <strong>robotic explorer to land on Mars<\/strong> as part of NASA\u2019s ongoing <strong>Mars 2020 Mission<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Main Job:<\/strong> <strong>Seek signs of ancient life<\/strong> and <strong>collect samples of rock<\/strong> and regolith (broken rock and soil) <strong>for possible return to Earth<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The rover will collect samples of rock and soil, encase them in tubes, and leave them on the planet&#8217;s surface to be returned to Earth at a future date.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Launch<\/strong>: It was launched on <strong>July 30, 2020<\/strong> from Cape Canaveral, Florida.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Landing<\/strong>: Successfully landed on the surface of <strong>Mar&#8217;s Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Feautures<\/strong>:<\/li>\n<li>It is about <strong>3 metres long, 2.7 metres wide<\/strong>, and 2.2 metres tall.<\/li>\n<li>It is about the <strong>size of a car,<\/strong> but weighs only about 1,025 kilograms with all instruments on board.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Power source:<\/strong> Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (MMRTG). <strong>Converts heat from the radioactive decay of plutonium into electricity<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Ingenuity Helicopter:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is <strong>a small, autonomous aircraft.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Main Job:<\/strong> Technology demonstration <strong>to test the first powered flight on Mars.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The helicopter rode to Mars <strong>attached to the belly of the Perseverance rover.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It became the <strong>first aircraft in history<\/strong> to make a powered, <strong>controlled flight on another planet.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is Mars 2020 Mission?<\/h3>\n<p>The Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover mission is part of NASA&#8217;s Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the Red Planet. The mission addresses high-priority science goals for Mars exploration, including key questions about the potential for life on Mars.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/technology\/nasa-perseverance-mars-rover-sample-return-8415289\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>NASA\u2019s Perseverance rover completes \u2018sample depot\u2019 on Mars: Here\u2019s how they will reach Earth<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perseverance rover is a robotic explorer to land on Mars as part of NASA\u2019s ongoing Mars 2020 Mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502","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=2502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}