The Perseverance rover landing on Mars is 7 months away. Here’s what’s next
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The Perseverance rover landing on Mars is 7 months away. Here’s what’s next

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CNN — The NASA Perseverance rover has been confirmed to be healthy and is now on a journey to Mars. “The mission has 314 million miles of interplanetary space and seven minutes of terror to get safely onto the surface of Mars,” said Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s planetary science division, in a statement. Here’s what to expect for the rover’s journey, landing and “first steps.” Cruising through space Perseverance and the Ingenuity helicopter are safely tucked inside a protective aeroshell capsule. This includes using a twin of Perseverance on Earth to test hardware, drive it through the Mars Yard at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and make sure the auto-navigation algorithms work, said Heather Justice, robotic operation downlink lead and one of the rover drivers at JPL. On the surface of Mars Once the rover has landed, Perseverance’s two-year mission will begin and it will go through a “checkout” period to make sure it’s ready.

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