Animation showing the Perseverance Rover robot arriving on Mars on February 18, 2021

The Perseverance Rover is approaching its final destination, Mars, where it is scheduled to arrive on February 18.

In this NASA Animation Distributed now, you can see what a 7 minute vertigo is where the expected arrival on the red planet lasts.

At that time, Mars’ upper atmosphere will go from 19,500 kilometers per hour at a speed of about 3 kilometers per hour during landing, to an area known as the Jessero crater.

Robot Explorer when it got there Look for signs of germs At least one Mars year (approximately 687 Earth days) on the planet.

The Perseverance vehicle will collect rock and soil samples, store them in tubes and leave them on the planet’s surface for future transfer to Earth.

The robot will study the geography of the Red Planet and future astronauts to produce, breathe and use oxygen from CO2 in the atmosphere as fuel.

“Seven Minutes of Terror”

The sequence of complex intrigues before the steadfastness descended has already been described by many experts as the “seven-minute terror.”

Launched from Earth in July 2020, the robot will travel in a two-part house: a rear shield and a heat shield.

Perseverance reached Mars in July 2020. REUTERS

As the spacecraft travels through the atmosphere of Mars, its heat shield will be exposed to temperatures ranging from 2,100 to C.

At a distance of 11 km from the Earth, the spacecraft will deploy a parachute, which will reduce the speed of the vehicle from 2,099 km per hour to 320 km per hour.

The heat shield will then detach from the shell, allowing the robot to fall freely to the ground for a short time.

Perseverance will explore Mars for at least one Mars year (approximately 687 Earth days). NASA / JPL-Caltech

It will activate eight retro rockets and allow the “sky crane” to maneuver, allowing the steadfastness to descend slowly with three nylon ropes and an “umbrella”.

When the wheels of the Explorer touch the ground, it loosens from these ties.

It was the first NASA mission since the Vikings in the 1970s to search directly for “signatures” or biological signs of life.

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