NASA Mars Perseverance Test Rover’s First Drive

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NASA Perseverance Mars Rover Twin Testing

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Engineers test drive the Earth-bound twin of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover for the very first time in a warehouselike assembly space at the firm’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Engineers test drive the Earth-bound twin of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover for the very first time in a warehouselike assembly space at the firm’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on September 1, 2020. This major engineering variation of Perseverance assists the objective group assess how software and hardware will carry out prior to they send commands to the genuine rover on Mars. This automobile system test bed (VSTB) rover is likewise called OPTIMISM (Operational Perseverance Twin for Integration of Mechanisms and Instruments Sent to Mars).

NASA Perseverance Test Rover First Drive

The Mars 2020 Perseverance astrobiology objective belongs to America’s bigger Moon to Mars expedition method that consists of objectives to the Moon as a method to get ready for human expedition of the Red Planet. Charged with sending out the very first lady and next guy to the Moon by 2024, NASA will develop a continual human existence on and around the Moon by 2028 through NASA’s Artemis program.

Mars Perseverance Test Rover First Drive

JPL, which is handled for NASA by Caltech in Pasadena, California, constructed and handles operations of the Perseverance rover.

Images: NASA/JPL-Caltech