{"id":138130,"date":"2024-12-17T18:56:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T11:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=138130"},"modified":"2024-12-17T18:56:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T11:56:59","slug":"nasas-perseverance-rover-completes-its-epic-climb-to-crater-rim-sciencealert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=138130","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s Perseverance Rover Completes Its Epic Climb to Crater Rim : ScienceAlert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In 2018, NASA mission planners <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/145889\/nasas-perseverance-rover-is-going-to-jezero-crater-which-is-looking-better-and-better-as-a-place-to-search-for-evidence-of-past-life-on-mars\/\">selected the Jezero Crater<\/a> as the future landing site of the <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/mars-2020-perseverance\">Perseverance<\/a> rover. This crater was a natural choice, as it was once an ancient lake bed, as evidenced by the delta fan at its western edge.<\/p>\n<p><!-- START single\/mrec --><br \/>\n<!-- END single\/mrec --><\/p>\n<p>On Earth, these features form in the presence of flowing water that gradually deposits sediment over time. Combined with the fact that the Jezero Crater&#8217;s delta feature is rich in clays, this makes the region a prime target to search for biosignatures \u2013 evidence of past (and maybe present) life on  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/mars\" class=\"lar_link lar_link_outgoing\" data-linkid=\"73083\" data-postid=\"147033\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\">Mars<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><!-- START single\/mrec --><br \/>\n<!-- END single\/mrec --><\/p>\n<p>In recent news, NASA announced that the Perseverance rover had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/nasas-perseverance-rover-reaches-top-of-jezero-crater-rim\/\">reached the top of Jezero Crater&#8217;s rim<\/a> at a location the science team calls Lookout Hill. The rover spent the previous three and a half months climbing the rim, covering a distance of 500 vertical meters (1,640 vertical feet) and making science observations along the way.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Perseverance Rover Panorama of Mars\u2019 Jezero Crater\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HceiCCUJTe0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> frameborder=&#8221;0\u2033 allow=&#8221;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&#8221; referrerpolicy=&#8221;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&#8221; allowfullscreen&gt;<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now that it has crested the rim, Perseverance can begin what the mission team calls its Northern Rim campaign. Over the next year, the rover is expected to drive 6.4 kilometers (4 miles) and visit up to four sites of interest where it will obtain geological samples.<\/p>\n<p><!-- START single\/mrec --><br \/>\n<!-- END single\/mrec --><\/p>\n<p>Since it landed in the Jezero Crater in February 2021, Perseverance has completed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/images\/pia26231-1000-days-of-perseverance\/\">four science campaigns<\/a>. This includes the <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/missions\/mars-2020-perseverance\/sample-tally-for-the-crater-floor-campaign\/\">Crater Floor<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/blogs\/weve-arrived-perseverance-starts-the-delta-front-campaign\/\">Fan Front<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/blog\/up-and-soon-away-perseverance-continues-exploring-the-upper-fan\/\">Upper Fan<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/blogs\/within-the-margin\/\">Margin Unit<\/a> based on where the rover was obtaining samples from.<\/p>\n<p><!-- START single\/mrec --><br \/>\n<!-- END single\/mrec --><\/p>\n<p>During the first campaign, the rover visited features around its landing site \u2013 like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/150612\/rocks-and-other-features-at-perseverances-landing-site-are-getting-navajo-names\/\">M\u00e1az formation<\/a> \u2013 where it obtained several rock and atmospheric samples, and some witness samples for contamination assessment. The two campaigns that followed saw the rover explore different sections of Jezero&#8217;s delta fan and obtain samples of rock and clay.<\/p>\n<p><!-- START single\/mrec --><br \/>\n<!-- END single\/mrec --><\/p>\n<p>The fourth campaign, meanwhile, consisted of the rover examining marginal carbonate rocks that circle the upper edge of the Jezero Crater.<\/p>\n<p><!-- START single\/mrec --><br \/>\n<!-- END single\/mrec --><\/p>\n<p>The science team calls Perseverance&#8217;s fifth campaign the Northern Rim because its route covers the northern part of the southwestern section of Jezero&#8217;s rim. The site was selected so that the rover could explore a region of Mars, unlike anything it has investigated before.<\/p>\n<p><!-- START single\/mrec --><br \/>\n<!-- END single\/mrec --><\/p>\n<p>Ken Farley, a project scientist for Perseverance at Caltech, explained in a NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/nasas-perseverance-rover-reaches-top-of-jezero-crater-rim\/\">press release<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The Northern Rim campaign brings us completely new scientific riches as Perseverance roves into fundamentally new geology.<\/p>\n<p>It marks our transition from rocks that partially filled Jezero Crater when it was formed by a massive impact about 3.9 billion years ago to rocks from deep down inside Mars that were thrown upward to form the crater rim after impact.<\/p>\n<p>These rocks represent pieces of early Martian crust and are among the oldest rocks found anywhere in the solar system. Investigating them could help us understand what Mars \u2014 and our own planet \u2014 may have looked like in the beginning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Now that Perseverance has crested and moved on from Lookout Hill, the rover is heading to a rocky outcrop about 450 m (1,500 feet) on the other side of the rim known as <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/resource\/perseverances-climb-to-witch-hazel-hill\/\">Witch Hazel Hill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- START single\/mrec --><br \/>\n<!-- END single\/mrec --><\/p>\n<p>Said Candice Bedford, a Perseverance scientist from Purdue University:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The campaign starts off with a bang because Witch Hazel Hill represents over 330 feet [~100 m] of layered outcrop, where each layer is like a page in the book of Martian history.<\/p>\n<p>As we drive down the hill, we will be going back in time, investigating the ancient environments of Mars recorded in the crater rim. Then, after a steep descent, we take our first turns of the wheel away from the crater rim toward &#8216;Lac de Charmes,&#8217; about 2 miles [3.2 km] south.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Located on the plains beyond the rim, the Lac de Charmes region is of interest to the mission team because it is less likely to have been affected by the impact that led to the Jezero Crater.<\/p>\n<p><!-- START single\/mrec --><br \/>\n<!-- END single\/mrec --><\/p>\n<p>Beyond that, the rover will travel about 1.6 kilometers (1 miles) back up the rim to investigate an outcropping of blocks (megabreccia) that may be the remains of ancient bedrock broken by another impact. This was the <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/resource\/isidis-rim\/\">Isidis impact<\/a>, which occurred 3.9 billion years ago and led to the formation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/resource\/isidis-rim\/\">Isidis Planitia basin<\/a> in the Northern Lowlands.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_147035\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-147035\" style=\"width: 642px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/images\/2024\/12\/perserverence_journey_map.jpg\" alt=\"perseverance journey on Mars\" width=\"642\" height=\"486\" class=\"wp-image-147035 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/images\/2024\/12\/perserverence_journey_map.jpg 642w, https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/images\/2024\/12\/perserverence_journey_map-548x415.jpg 548w, https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/images\/2024\/12\/perserverence_journey_map-600x454.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-147035\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The route NASA&#8217;s Perseverance Mars rover took (in blue) as it climbed the western rim of Jezero Crater. (NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/University of Arizona)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Investigating this site could provide valuable insight into a major surface-reshaping event that took place during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/general\/noachian-early-mars\/\">Noachian Period<\/a> on Mars. This geological epoch saw extensive erosion by flowing water, as indicated by the many river valley networks dated to the period.<\/p>\n<p><!-- START single\/mrec --><br \/>\n<!-- END single\/mrec --><\/p>\n<p>It is also during the Noachian that the Tharsis Bulge is believed to have formed, indicating that Mars was still geologically active. As always, the ultimate goal is to find biosignatures from this &#8220;warmer, wetter&#8221; period that indicate that Mars could have had life (similar to Earth at the time).<\/p>\n<p><!-- START single\/mrec --><br \/>\n<!-- END single\/mrec --><\/p>\n<p>The Perseverance science team also shared information on the rover, their science operations, and future plans at a media briefing on Thursday, December 12th, during the annual meeting of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agu.org\/annual-meeting\">American Geophysical Union<\/a> (AGU) in Washington.<\/p>\n<p><!-- START single\/mrec --><br \/>\n<!-- END single\/mrec --><\/p>\n<p>As Steven Lee, the deputy project manager for the Perseverance mission at NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said during the briefing, &#8220;During the Jezero Crater rim climb, our rover drivers have done an amazing job negotiating some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/nasas-perseverance-rover-looks-back-while-climbing-slippery-slope\/\">toughest terrain<\/a> we&#8217;ve encountered since landing.<\/p>\n<p><!-- START single\/mrec --><br \/>\n<!-- END single\/mrec --><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They developed innovative approaches to overcome these challenges \u2013 even tried driving backward to see if it would help \u2013 and the rover has come through it all like a champ. Perseverance is &#8216;go&#8217; for everything the science team wants to throw at it during this next science campaign.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>This article was originally published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/\">Universe Today<\/a>. Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/170103\/nasas-perseverance-rover-reaches-the-top-rim-of-the-jezero-crater\/\">original article<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/nasas-perseverance-rover-completes-its-epic-climb-to-crater-rim\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018, NASA mission planners selected the Jezero Crater as the future landing site of the Perseverance rover. 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