NASA’s new venture had found it’s fruitition as it landed on the surface of Mars and moved approximately 21 feet.
After two weeks of settling down and collecting information about signs of past life the ‘Preseverence Rover’ moved from its position. The drive lasted for 33 minutes which went so well. It moved forward and backward and took a roundabout too. Rich Rieber ,the engineer who plotted the route said that this was really the start of their journey.
The rover went 13 feet forward, took a left turn and moved eight feet backwards. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory released the photos of its tracks on the surface of Mars. The systems of the rover are very good so far and the engineers are looking after it continuously. The rover has a so- called protective belly pan which contains an experimental helicopter named Ingenuity. ‘Perseverance’ landed on the edge of a potential helicopter landing strip and NASA plans to drive it out of the landing strip, ditch the pan and return for Ingenuity’s anticipated test flight.
It became the ninth US spacecraft to land on the Mars successfully. China hopes to land its comparatively smaller rover om the Mars within few months. NASA scientists said that that named Perseverance’s touch down site in honour to the late science fiction writer Octavia E Butler