Perseverance is a NASA robotic rover sent to explore Jezero Crater on Mars, a basin that once held a lake and a river delta. It was launched from Cape Canaveral on an Atlas V rocket and landed in the crater in February 2021 using a sky-crane descent system. Its mission is to search for signs of ancient microbial life, study the climate and geology of Mars, and collect and seal rock and soil samples that could be returned to Earth by a future mission. It carried the small helicopter Ingenuity, which made the first powered, controlled flights on another planet, and an experiment called MOXIE that produced oxygen from the Martian atmosphere.
Before and after
- 23 July 2020Launch of Tianwen-1
- 28 July 2020Founding of Lublin Triangle
- 30 July 2020Launch of Mars 2020
- 30 July 2020Launch of Ingenuity
- 30 July 2020Launch of Perseverance
- 4 August 20202020 Beirut explosions
- 9 August 20202020 Belarusian presidential election
- September 2020Discovery of TOI-700 d
- from 27 September 2020 to 10 November 2020Second Nagorno-Karabakh War
More in Universe & space
- 4 October 1957Launch of Sputnik 1
- 22 October 1969Discovery of 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
- 14 September 1974Discovery of Leda
- 28 July 1989Discovery of Galatea
- 19 January 2006Launch of New Horizons
- 26 June 2012Discovery of Styx
The era
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