To determine if a section of the Red Planet is flat enough for NASA’s next Mars lander, the six-wheeled roaming explorer has examined it. The Perseverance Mars rover from NASA’s has been busy scouting while carrying out its research program and collecting samples at the ancient river delta in Jezero Crater.
The Mars Sample Return (MSR) Campaign is looking for areas where spacecraft may land and retrieve samples from Perseverance’s sample tubes, which have become full of rock and silt. The locations being studied are being taken into consideration because to their closeness to the delta and to one another, as well as their generally flat topography that is lander-friendly. A historic mission known as Mars Sample Return would collect samples from such remote area and return them to Earth for in-depth laboratory examination in search of evidence of previous microscopic life on the Red Planet.
A historic mission known as Mars Sample Return would collect samples from such remote area and return them to Earth for in-depth laboratory examination in search of evidence of previous microscopic life on the Red Planet. A joint venture between NASA’s and the European Space Agency (ESA) would use many spacecraft, including a rocket that would take off from Mars, to make this happen. Engineers designing a Mars landing prefer to deal with flatter terrain since rocks and an uneven surface are more difficult to land on. The MSR Entry, Descent, and Landing team is seeking a pancake-flat landing zone with a radius of 200 feet (60 metres) in light of this.
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