The largest visit to Mars will reveal a lot about the Red Planet

If things go as programmed, then Mars is promised a rare planetary visit, which will be carried out by a spacecraft launched by “NASA” on July 30th, and it will be carried out by NASA on July 700, which it called Perseverance, which cost with its mission more than two billion and XNUMX million dollars, to study the geology of the planet, looking About a trace of a life that may have been in his past remote. Its mission also includes carrying a small helicopter, which it will launch to fly in the atmosphere of the planet when it lands on its surface after traveling 472 million kilometers in 203 days, i.e. at a speed of 97 kilometers per hour.

What is interesting about the mission of the spacecraft carrying electronic chips containing the names of 10 million and 900 people who asked “NASA” to send them to the planet via a link on its website, is that a pair of cameras will photograph its entry into the atmosphere of Mars at a speed of 20 thousand kilometers per hour, according to what I read “Al Arabiya.” .net” in its biography, in which it is stated that a 21-meter diameter parachute will slow its descent, and then secure reverse jets to land it on its surface, according to what we see in a video produced by the American Space Agency as a simulation of what will happen in the mission of the vehicle, which will end after 678 days.

Another pair of microphones will allow a person to listen, for the first time in history, to the sounds of the vehicle entering the airspace of the nearest neighbor to the Earth after the moon, in addition to the sounds of its landing and work on its surface, and also listening to the sounds of the wind and the breeze gusts at night and day, And the noise that occurs in the environment surrounding the spacecraft, which is programmed to land on the surface of the most famous Martian crater, Jezero, which has a diameter of 49 kilometers.

They believe that the crater was more like a lake in an environment in which a kind of life might have sprouted 3 billion and 500 million years ago, according to what was reported 3 weeks ago in a press conference held by Professor Kenneth Farley, chief scientist in the program of the spacecraft known as Mars 2020, also, in which he said that it is equipped with With very advanced artificial intelligence techniques, which allow it to move at a speed that is 3 times more than the speed of any spacecraft that roamed before it on Mars, so it will complete its mission more quickly and more effectively. It is also equipped with a set of high-definition commercial cameras, which makes us able to see ourselves for the first time on another planet,” he said.

Hope there's a "life imprint" of some kind

They chose “Jezzero” to land the vehicle, because it is more promising than others in terms of the presence of life, in and around it, the American Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been orbiting since 2005 around Mars, found clay associated with its presence in water, according to what was reported on the NASA host website that agency scientists, they have evidence Enough to confirm that the “liquid of life” had a presence in it twice, and the hope is great to find a “fingerprint of life” of some kind, the traces of which still remain in its sediments, so Perseverance will collect samples of its rocks and soil, to be transferred in 2031 through A joint campaign between NASA and the European Space Agency, in the first global effort to bring a sample of Mars to Earth.

As for the kidnapping of the lights in the surprises that Perseverance will bring, if at least for a show, it is a small helicopter that the vehicle will launch to become the first man-made machine to fly in the atmosphere of a planet other than Earth, according to what was reported in a previous report published by “Al Arabiya.net” last July. . Although it is small, weighing less than two kilograms, Ingenuity, or “creativity,” as the US space agency called it, is an unmanned “dron”, according to what appears in a simulated video produced by “NASA” and presented below.

The purpose of transferring the helicopter to the Red Planet is to experience flying in an atmosphere with a density of only 1% of the density of its counterpart on Earth, in addition to the possibility of using it to fly over hills, and perhaps entering it into Martian caves and caves to see its interior, knowing that it is programmed to fly for a maximum of 3 minutes Each time, and at a height of no more than 10 meters above the area you reach, “therefore, its flight will amaze the world,” according to the words of one of the curators from “NASA” on the plane, which the US agency did not mention anything about its cost.