- NASA’s Mars 2020 rover, Perseverance, is coming together ahead of its expected launch to the Red Planet in July of this year.
- The mission is still on schedule despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and though it’s still possible that that could change.
- Among other tasks, the rover will gather material samples from the planet’s surface and ready them for transport back to Earth.
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NASA’s Mars 2020 mission is still a go, despite the growing public health crisis in the United States and abroad. The launch of the Perseverance rover has been planned for years now and is rapidly approaching the finish line, with NASA staff reinstalling some of the robot’s vital components and readying it for its long trip to the Red Planet.
As NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory explains in a new blog post, the tools the rover will use to snatch samples of the martian soil and ready them for eventual delivery back to Earth were recently integrated and tested, including the Adaptive Caching Assembly and the Bit Carousel.
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NASA’s Perseverance rover is coming together, virus or no virus originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 20 Mar 2020 at 23:18:28 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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