NASA’s Perseverance Rover Team Celebrates One Year On Mars

NASA’s Perseverance Rover teams on 18th February, 2022 will celebrate one year into the exploration of planet Mars. Mars, the fourth planet after earth is one of the easiest planets to spot in the night sky. It looks like a bright red point of light. Robotic explorers like NASA are trying to find out the existence of life in the past when the Red Planet was warmer and covered with water.

The largest, most advanced rover touched down on Mars on February 18, 2021, after a 203-day journey traversing 293 million miles (472 million kilometers). The Ingenuity helicopter rode to Mars attached to the belly of Perseverance.

The mission team will share their stories marking the one-year anniversary of Perseverance’s dramatic landing with events online and in-person. Full-scale rover models are on display in Seattle, San Francisco, and New York City, and virtual opportunities will allow people to join in no matter where they are. The schedule is on Nasa’s Science Mars Exploration Program site

The goal of the Mars Exploration Program is to explore Mars and to provide a continuous flow of scientific information and discovery through a carefully selected series of robotic orbiters, landers and mobile laboratories interconnected by a high-bandwidth Mars/Earth communications network. Exploring Mars also provides the opportunity to possibly answer origin and evolution of life questions, and could someday be a destination for survival of humankind