NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance is all set to launch today — interesting facts you may not already know

Prabhjote GillJul 30, 2020, 13:43 IST

Artist's impression of the Mars Perseverance roverNASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will be launching its Mars Perseverance mission on July 30.
The Perseverance rover will be replacing the ageing Curiosity rover on the Red Planet as the first part of a round trip journey.
The rover has a nuclear power source that won’t run out for at least 88 years.

The Mars Perseverance rover is all set to take off from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 30. The US Space Agency is looking to find signs of alien life from when the planet was still thriving with water, and clues that could help understand the impact of climate change on the Red planet.

By testing spacesuit material and technology, the Mars Perseverance aims to collect information that could be useful for human missions in the future.

Here are seven interesting things that you may not already know about NASA’s Mars Perseverance mission:

NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover has a nuclear power source that won’t run out for at least 88 years

Artist's impression of astronauts on MarsNASA

Perseverance is locked in a race against China

The ATLAS V rocket that will carry Perseverance out of Earth's orbitNASA

Perseverance is only one part of a round trip to Mars

NASA

The Mars Perseverance mission lays the path for human habitation

One of the space suits from which a sample will be sent to MarsNASA

NASA's Mars Perseverance mission is on the hunt for alien life

Perseverance's landing site, the Jezero CraterNASA

Mars Perseverance mission isn’t just a rover but has a helicopter too

Artist's impression of what the Ingenuity helicopter would look like on MarsNASA

NASA plans to launch yet another Mars rover into space in another two years

Artist's depiction of the Mars Perseverance rover on the Red PlanetNASA

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NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance is all set to launch today — interesting facts you may not already know

​NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover has a nuclear power source that won’t run out for at least 88 years

​Perseverance is locked in a race against China