The Perseverance Rover, along with several components used during the recent landing, were made from space.
picture, captured by ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, reveals the location of the parachute and the back cover, the descent stage, the heat shield and, of course, the Perseverance rover itself. Of the spaceship Color and stereo surface imaging system was used to acquire the photograph. Launched in 2016, TGO is a joint mission of the European Space Agency and Russia Roscosmos.
Perseverance landed in Jezero Crater on February 18th an event that NASA succeeded in capture on film. “Jezero” means “lake” in several Slavic languages, exactly what this place was billions of years ago. Once the rover moves, its main task will be to look for traces of ancient microbial life in this former body of water.
The descent stage is located at approximately 2,130 feet (650 meters) of the rover. This is the piece of equipment powered by rockets that used cables to lower the rover to the surface and then zipped up to collapse at a safe distance.. The parachute and the back cover are about 1,200 meters northwest of the rover, while the heat shield is 1,450 meters northeast.
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Follow Gas Orbiter acquired this image five days after landing.Discarded objects will become harder to see over time, as they become more and more covered by Martian dust the following years and decades.
In addition to this image, the orbiter assisted during landing and landing, acting as a data relay station for NASA. satellite the main mission is to search for atmospheric gases related to geological – and possibly biological – processes on Mars. Tracking gas orbiter recently made headlines by discovering a previously undetected chemical process on Mars, although a process that is not associated with life.