COLORADO SPRINGS Its a journey months in the making and now NASAs Mars rover Perseverance is preparing to land on the red planet, and the Space Foundations Discovery Center is celebrating the event with activities and events for all.
Perseverance rover is set to reach Mars on Feb. 18 around 2 p.m., but that will only be possible if the rover survives what NASAs dubbed the seven minutes of terror.
The last time we sent a rover like Perseverance to Mars was in 2012 when Curiosity landed, Curator for Space Foundations Discovery Center Rachel English said.
Perseverance will have virtually the same landing as Curiosity. But there is only about a 50% chance this landing will be successful. If it is, Perseverance will work to determine whether life ever existed on Mars.
Its going to be doing some incredible work in Jezero crater, where its landing, to search for signs of microbial life on Mars, English added. So itll tell us a lot about the history of Mars as a planet from a geological standpoint, from a climate standpoint, and also, you know, we might find some cool fossils.
Its novel technologies that are enabling the next leaps of exploration: landing with more precision and safely, learn how to make oxygen from CO2 out of the atmosphere and more, NASAs Associate Administrator For Science Thomas Zurbuchen explained.
Whether the mission is successful or not, the Discovery Center is celebrating all week long!
Upcoming Events:
English added, We realize that everyone is getting a little bit of screen fatigue, and we work really hard here at the discovery center to make sure that everything is clean, fun, and safe.
The great part about space exploration is that even if we fail, we still learn.
Failure is one of our greatest teachers as scientists and engineers, so no matter what happens on Thursday, were really excited, English said.
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